Training Opportunities and Exercises for Health Care Professionals
DPH disaster preparedness training opportunities are focused on:
- Health care system preparedness
- Health care system recovery
- Emergency operations coordination
- Fatality management
- Information sharing
- Medical surge
- Responder safety and health
- Volunteer management
Health Care Preparedness Program – Overview and Mission
The funds are administered by DPH's Healthcare Preparedness Program (HPP). The program resides within the Bureau of Public Health Preparedness at DPH. HPP is affiliated with and supported by the U.S. Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response’s Hospital Preparedness Program, which provides leadership and funding through grants and cooperative agreements to states, territories and eligible municipalities to improve surge capacity and enhance community and hospital preparedness for public health emergencies.
Advisory Council - Health Care Preparedness
The South Carolina Health Care Coalition Advisory Council provides guidance and policy direction to achieve the goals set by the U.S. Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP).
The council also:
Meaningful Use
The Promoting Interoperability Programs, formerly known as the Electronic Health Records (EHR) Incentive Programs, and more commonly known as Meaningful Use, was implemented by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to encourage healthcare providers and organizations to implement and use health care information technology.
Meaningful Use includes public health reporting options. DHEC offers the following programs for eligible clinicians, hospitals, and critical access hospitals: