This course addresses the Homeland Security learning outcomes marked in bold text.

  1. Define and identify vulnerabilities, threats, and hazards
  2. Assess risk
  3. Plan for emergency action
  4. Formulate prevention and mitigation strategies
  5. Organize responses
  6. Manage recovery options
  7. Evaluate effectiveness

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

  1. Identify the essential preparedness, planning, and operational components necessary to sustain a hospital’s targeted level of service during and after a mass casualty /Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) incident.
  2. Analyze the basic incident management framework for local, regional, state, and federal response to a mass casualty / WMD incident.
  3. Identify basic categories of resources that are available from public, private, and volunteer agencies when responding to a mass casualty / WMD incident, to include resource availability, accessibility, and expected deployment.
  4. Critique appropriate segments of an emergency plan — principally regarding operations for a mass casualty / WMD incident.
  5. Analyze the perceived and potential roles of various healthcare providers and operational segments of a healthcare system when responding to mass casualty / WMD incidents.
  6. Demonstrate effective communication with appropriate constituencies to manage both hospital and healthcare system responses to a mass casualty / WMD incident.
  7. Demonstrate effective decision-making during emergency preparedness planning.
  8. Prepare segments of a hospital emergency plan

Health Care Security and Disaster Preparedness

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Focuses on the assessment of health needs of specific communities when compromised by events impacting homeland security.  Provides strategies for planning and implementing plans developed in collaboration with local governmental agencies, public and private health sector providers and county and state health agencies.

Pre-requisites: None

Restrictions/Suggestions:  None

Course Outline

Refer to the table below for specific information pertaining to your school.
If you are
a student at		 Course name and
number		 Contact
Chicago State University Contact your campus coordinator Dr. Marian Perkins
Assistant Professor
Office HWH 325
773-995-2233
Eastern Illinois University Contact your campus coordinator Sue Harvey
Registrar
gsharvey@eiu.edu
217-581-3831
Governors State University HSLC 891 (UG)/HSLC 892 (G),
Health Care Security and Disaster Preparedness		 Veronica Williams
Director, Extended University
v-williams@govst.edu
708-534-3143
Illinois State University Contact your campus coordinator Dr. Marilyn Morrow
Chair-Health Sciences
mmorrow@ilstu.edu
309-438-8806
Northern Illinois University PHHE 473 (UG)/PHHE 673 (G),
Health Care Security and Disaster Preparedness		 Linda Traff
Assistant Director, Credit
ltraff@niu.edu
815-753-8735

Cathy Cradduck
Campus Coordinator
ccradduc@niu.edu
815-753-5008
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville Contact your campus coordinator Laura Strom
Registrar
lstrom@siue.edu
618-650-3330
Western Illinois University Contact your campus coordinator Dr. Nancy Parsons
Professor, Health Sciences
NP-Parsons@wiu.edu
309-298-1746