The ASPR TRACIE Express: January 2023 Updates

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Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response

The Express: January 2023

Happy New Year ASPR TRACIE stakeholders! We hope you were able to enjoy some time off during the holidays.

This issue of The Express highlights the following resources:

On-Campus Hospital Armed Assailant Planning Considerations
Partnering with the Healthcare Supply Chain during Disasters (Updated)
The Exchange, Issue 16: Decedent Management during Disasters

Please also continue to access our Pediatric Surge and COVID-19 Resource Pages and reach out if you need technical assistance.

On-Campus Hospital Armed Assailant Planning Considerations

The new On-Campus Hospital Armed Assailant Planning Considerations document can help hospital planners prepare their facilities to mitigate, respond to, and recover from an armed assailant or active shooter situation on campus. Links to related resources that support considerations are also provided.

Partnering with the Healthcare Supply Chain during Disasters (Updated)

The updated Partnering with the Healthcare Supply Chain during Disasters document provides an overview of the emergency planning and response considerations of healthcare supply chain owners, operators, and end users, as well as insights for healthcare coalitions working with healthcare supply chain partners. New vignettes illustrate how supply chain challenges have been managed in recent years.

The Exchange, Issue 16: Decedent Management during Disasters

While decedent management may not be the first thing we think of when we imagine healthcare emergency management, to victims’ loved ones, it is possibly the most important component of the process. This issue of The Exchange includes the following articles:

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ASPR’s Division of Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) offers a variety of newsletters to keep stakeholders informed during emergency response and steady state. The newsletters inform stakeholders of the most significant issues facing the Healthcare and Public Health Sector including cybersecurity, healthcare supply chains, COVID-19, and more. If you are interested in receiving CIP newsletters, visit the CIP newsletter subscription webpage.