Strengthening Emergency Response through a Healthcare Coalition Toolkit

The web-based toolkit can be used by local health departments to support the development of a healthcare coalition, or as a topic-specific reference to complement existing health response planning in a local health jurisdiction.

The following topics are covered in the toolkit:

1.	Public Health Perspective - describes the importance of Public Health's involvement in coordinating healthcare response and highlights essential reminders about key public health laws and policies.
2.	Assessment and Engagement - helps define the key elements and organizations that need to be identified, considered and consulted when undertaking a Healthcare Coalition planning process.
3.	Planning and Preparing - designed to provide suggestions on how to approach the planning process as well as examples of key planning elements including planning assumptions, priorities, purpose and objectives.
4.	Organization and Structure - provides a detailed look at how the King County Healthcare Coalition Preparedness Structure evolved and provides a framework for developing a structure.
5.	Implementation - detailed look at the fundamental working content of a Healthcare Coalition that can be applied topically to almost any jurisdiction.
6.	Sustainability - looks at questions surrounding the next steps for developing a lasting Coalition structure