YNHHS News Releases

Released Oct. 28, 2007

Health System receives grant to improve hospital emergency preparedness efforts

NEW HAVEN — Yale New Haven Health System’s Center for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Response (YNH-CEPDR) is among four U.S. health care organizations nationwide that have been awarded nearly $1 million dollars in funding from the VHA Health Foundation to develop new approaches to improve hospital emergency preparedness efforts.

As a grant recipient, Yale New Haven Center for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Response is charged with developing comprehensive emergency management training courses to be delivered to 10 hospital beta sites nationally. YNH-CEPDR will tailor courses to unique local needs and encourage collaboration among institutions in different cities and states.

“Hospitals provide a multi-faceted, dynamic response to catastrophes, becoming an umbrella of disaster relief efforts,” said Christopher Cannon, M.S.N., M.P.H., fellow, American College of Healthcare Executives and the director of the Yale New Haven Center for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Response. “Promoting effective models of emergency preparedness is crucial to helping hospitals better meet the needs of America’s communities.”

The VHA Health Foundation, based in Irving, Texas, is a non-profit foundation dedicated to supporting innovative approaches to health care delivery, including the creation of new tools and resources that assist hospitals in better preparing for and responding to all types of disasters. The other three hospitals sharing the grant are Massachusetts General, New York Presbyterian and Moses Cone Health System in Greensboro, NC.

The Yale New Haven Center for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Response is a national leader in healthcare emergency preparedness and disaster response. Yale New Haven’s Center has been recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a Center for Public Health Preparedness (CPHP) – the only health system-based and health care delivery-focused CPHP in the United States.

The Yale New Haven Health System is comprised of Bridgeport, Greenwich, and Yale-New Haven Hospitals. Yale New Haven Health offers patients a full range of health care services of the highest quality, from primary care to the most complex care available anywhere in the world.

The Yale New Haven Center for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Response is a national leader in healthcare emergency preparedness and disaster response. Yale New Haven’s Center has been recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a Center for Public Health Preparedness (CPHP) – the only health system-based and health care delivery-focused CPHP in the United States.