Pan Flu - Essential Healthcare Services

Partnering with rural Indiana hospitals to develop novel approaches to healthcare system modeling and planning for prioritization of essential healthcare services to be sustained during pandemic influenza. Plans that are developed are:

Systematic: identify alternatives for planning and promote engagement of local healthcare system partners for a systematic and unified hospital and community planning approach.

Justifiable: based on best practices and supported by appropriate literature.

Flexible: adjustable based on changing epidemiological characteristics.

Scalable: applicable to varying populations, geographic jurisdictions, and levels of resources of existing within the hospital and local healthcare system.

Sustainable: sustainable for a period of twelve weeks during a pandemic.

Project Oversight Responsibility

Janet Archer, MSN, RN Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Emergency Response Indiana State Department of Health Project Lead
Mark A. Lawley, PhD Professor of Biomedical Engineering Co-Principal Investigator	Mary Anne Sloan, MBA, BSN, RN Director, HealthcareTAP Co-Principal Investigator

This project is funded by the CDC, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion,
National Center for Preparedness, Detection and Control of Infectious Diseases.