HAP Blog

The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) recently released an assessment of North America’s electrical grid, highlighting energy vulnerabilities, especially during the summer months. The report gives another reason to think about our preparedness and get ready.

As we pause and reflect on the school shooting that occurred last week in Uvalde, Texas, our thoughts most certainly have turned toward trying to comprehend how something so horrific could occur.

We have a saying in emergency management that it is important to be “forward leaning,” but with the troubling news circulating around us, where do we even start?

We all know that a resilient health care supply chain means the difference between maintaining operations and suspending patient care, but we didn’t truly feel this urgency until COVID-19. The pandemic helped us understand that we can’t take our inventory for granted and that supplies are not always just a call away.

We’re thankful the COVID-19 burden on our hospitals and health systems has eased from the winter Omicron surge, but we know we’re just one crisis away from putting our emergency plans into action, whether it’s for an infectious disease, a wildfire, or an emerging cyber threat.

Unfortunately, many of us wake up daily to news media outlets reporting with updates about Russia’s military operations within Ukraine. The conflict has brought uncertainty and fear for many individuals in Ukraine and worldwide.