/ en Sun, 11 May 2025 15:42:04 -0500 Wed, 01 Dec 21 13:15:44 -0600 /energytocare/toolkit Wed, 01 Dec 2021 13:15:44 -0600 Checklists/Tools /energytocare/benefits-calculator Tue, 02 Nov 2021 15:39:12 -0500 Checklists/Tools /covid-19-recovery <h2>Introduction</h2><p>The COVID-19 pandemic is impacting the health care physical environment in ways we never imagined. Facilities have been reimagined, renovated, expanded, enlarged and underutilized simultaneously. The pandemic’s significant impact on the physical environment has offered challenges and learning experiences. Our reaction to this emergency has required agile assessments, multiple mitigations, perpetual preparation and rapid responses, and it will require a resolute recovery.</p><p>Up to this point, most emergency responses have been based on a local response, as most disasters are local events (e.g., local surge, hurricane, earthquake, fire or blizzard). Some disasters impact significantly large geographical areas, but until now none have impacted the entire nation and the world at large. The large-scale response to this pandemic has invited a broader scope of perspective to emergency management. While surge response specifically is focused on local health care coalitions, the procuring and distribution of personal protective equipment (PPE) is happening on facility, coalition, state, regional and federal levels. This multilevel approach has created confusion and frustration for many involved and especially for those in need of PPE.</p><p>Recovering from the impacts of this pandemic and documenting lessons learned are vital and will require significant planning and action. Not only will it require facilities to reimagine their responsibilities to their service population, but it will also require them to coordinate reopening with their coalition and state. This guide has been developed to assist health care facility managers in planning for and carrying out recovery measures to restore operational capabilities to appropriate post-COVID-19 pandemic levels.<br><br> </p> Wed, 29 Apr 2020 16:50:46 -0500 Checklists/Tools /converting-alternate-care-sites-patient-space-options Thu, 26 Mar 2020 14:37:08 -0500 Checklists/Tools /covid-19-frequently-asked-questions <p><em>Updated: 12/16/2020</em><br><br> </p> Tue, 24 Mar 2020 15:07:48 -0500 Checklists/Tools