Mission

Promote and support all-hazards preparedness and response activities and capabilities through an ongoing process of assessment, sustainability, and continuous improvement by focusing on providing situational awareness, sharing information and rendering support through shared resources and training to the NYC health system to prepare for, respond to, and protect New Yorkers before, during, and after an emergency that impacts the health care system.

Vision

We envision a health care coalition that will increase the NYC health care system’s preparation for, response to, and recovery from disasters through shared resources, improved and shared communications, situational awareness, and an expectation for intra-coalition assistance among members. As a sustainable, fully-integrated component of the health care system emergency response system, we will continually assess gaps in preparedness and seek to enhance and strengthen capabilities through supporting coalition purchases of equipment, inventory, and collaborative training, planning, exercises, and other collaborations with NYC organizations responsible for health care preparedness, emergency response, and recovery.

Goals

We will realize this vision by pursuing four major goals over the next five years:

  1. Further develop the capacities of sub-coalitions and assist in development of citywide capabilities for enhanced communication, information sharing and introduction of overarching, real-time situational awareness.
  2. Clearly define NYCHCC’s medical surge roles, responsibilities, and assets.
  3. Improve citywide capability and enhanced assets for medical surge response, including collective recommendations for purchasing, resource allocation and prioritization of efforts throughout the city for evacuation, decontamination, and mass casualty.
  4. Continually assess gaps in facility preparedness and promote expectations to strengthen capabilities through member participation in localized and citywide health care system planning, trainings, exercises, and response requirements in addition to other collaborative activities.