Strategic Sustainability Plan for Emergency Disasters

Strategic Sustainability Plan for Emergency Disasters When it comes to choosing strategic partners and interagency collaborators the most significant thing to focus on is the establishment of proper response linkages that will enhance the emergency preparedness network to respond to an emergency or disaster appropriately. In particular, effective community linkages are formed by identifying the right stakeholders (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2018). The paper focuses on a sustainability plan to maintain the appropriate community linkages for high-level public health preparedness. Moreover, it depicts community partners, their advantages, and their disadvantages. Interagency collaboration and community partnership improve a healthcare institution’s response to an emergency or disaster. One of the primary community partners in this disaster sustainability plan is the government agencies. Federal, local, and state governments play significant roles in disaster response. For example, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) established the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to help in emergency management by preparing, mitigating, responding, and recovering from catastrophic events (Garrett, 2019). The advantages of the government agencies include mobilizing required resources, providing financial support, offering counseling services to the victims, and helping the affected people to recover, such as rebuilding damaged infrastructure. The disadvantages of these agencies are that they might delay to initiate disaster response since specific protocols must be followed, and their overreliance on the FEMA. The other crucial community partners are healthcare professionals. These specialists safeguard, improve, and foster the health of people and communities. When a catastrophic event or disaster occurs, healthcare professionals are called upon so they can participate in an organized and coordinated response not only to save lives but also to prevent adverse consequences to vulnerable populations (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2018). In that light, these specialists should be well-trained to be prepared for emergency management. The benefits of training and allowing participation of healthcare professionals in disaster management are saving lives, providing first-aid to injured people on the disaster scene, and preventing adverse health consequences to the affected population. In real...