Hospital Preparedness Program

The Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP) provides leadership and funding through cooperative agreements to states, territories, and eligible metropolitan areas to improve the capacity of the health care system to plan for and respond to large-scale emergencies and disasters.

Hospital Preparedness Program

The Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP) provides leadership and funding through cooperative agreements to states, territories, and eligible metropolitan areas to improve the capacity of the healthcare system to plan for and respond to large-scale emergencies and disasters.

HPP supports regional collaboration and health care preparedness and response by encouraging the development and sustainment of Health Care Coalitions (HCC). These coalitions incentivize often competitive health care organizations with differing priorities and objectives to work together to prepare for, respond to, and recover from all types of threats and emergencies. HPP funding also supports trainings and exercises that prepare HCC members to handle real emergencies.

Disaster Preparedness Health Coalition

The Alameda County Disaster Preparedness Health Coalition (DPHC) is a voluntary multidisciplinary, multi-agency body created to coordinate health care preparedness for all-hazard emergencies through mitigation, planning, response, and recovery. The primary role is to provide for communication and leverage collaboration among the participating agencies in these activities.

Coalition duties include:

  • Strengthening emergency plans.
  • Disseminating plans, tools and resources via shared information management systems.
  • Emergency response coordination.
  • Establishing priorities for Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP) work plan deliverables and funding.

The general membership is open and voluntary to providers of healthcare services in Alameda County. New members are welcome at any time, particularly from healthcare sectors that are underrepresented in our coalition such as behavioral health, dialysis, and outpatient surgery centers.

Vision: To collaborate and respond effectively to all hazards with the goal of preserving of life, property, and environment. The goal is to ensure the continuum of medical/health care and a resilient healthcare system.

Mission: To provide education, networking, mentoring, technical assistance, coordination, communication, and leadership opportunities to health care staff/facilities in Alameda County.

For more information on the Disaster Preparedness Health Coalition, please contact our DPHC Coordinator.