Current Emergency Preparedness Resources and Capabilities Among Academic Health Systems in the United States.

Objective: Although hospital emergency preparedness efforts have been recognized as important, there has been growing pressure on cost containment, as well as consolidation within the US health care system. There is little data looking at what health care emergency preparedness functions have been, could be, or should be centrally coordinated at a system level.

Methods: We developed a questionnaire for academic health systems and asked about program funding, resources provided, governance, and activities.

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