Crisis Care and Mitigation Strategies Waiver Hub
Welcome to the Crisis Care and Mitigation Strategies Waiver Hub. This tool was created in response to requests for clarity and organization around waivers and resources to both navigate and mitigate crisis situations. This Hub organizes all relevant WACs and RCWs into different scopes of practices which you can navigate as they appear most relevant to you. This is the first edition of this tool and we embrace your engagement with it and feedback on ways to improve it. Thank you for all the work that you do and we hope this tool helps.
Here you will find access to each of our partner's webpages to gather more information, contacts, and resources.
The Executive Office of Resiliency and Health Security (ORHS) of the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) leads the response to health threats and emergencies in a proactive, effective, and equitable way that assures strength of health response, supports health systems, leverages community solutions, promotes cross-sector collaboration, and advances health security.
ORHS pursues excellence in developing systems, processes, and structures that save lives and improve community resilience when responding to public health and all- hazards emergencies through improved access to public health and medical services. ORHS confronts barriers to these services and advances equity in ways that make our communities in Washington more resilient, healthier, safer, and better connected.
ORHS works to ensure Washington communities have the information and resources they need to build resilience in the face of myriad public health threats and are well-positioned to prepare for, respond to, and recover from emergencies and natural disasters.
The Office of Healthcare Analytics, Readiness, and Preparedness (HARP) aims to safeguard and enhance the health and well-being of the people of Washington by fostering a resilient, prepared, and integrated healthcare ecosystem. We actively communicate, coordinate, and collaborate with diverse healthcare systems, coalitions, tribes, and jurisdictions. We operate an innovative technology platform, seamlessly collecting and providing critical hospital and healthcare data for situational awareness. Our commitment to equity, equality, inclusion, and belonging guides us as we innovate and implement groundbreaking operations to monitor, analyze, respond to, and recover from disasters impacting public health. We strive to empower leaders across the state with timely and informed insights, ensuring a coordinated and effective response to public health threats.
The development of the Scarce Resource Management and Crisis Standards of Care materials below started in 2012 with the Central District Disaster Clinical Advisory Committee. (DCAC Central). The updates and ongoing guidance continues with the WA State DMAC. This work is built upon evidence-based literature review, national recommendations, regional committee meetings and individual subject matter expert workgroups.
For further information on the Network’s Disaster Clinical Advisory Committees, please email us at: info@nwhrn.org.
Clark County Public Health receives Hospital Preparedness Program funding from the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response to administer a health care response and preparedness organization in Southwest Washington called the Healthcare Alliance. The Healthcare Alliance serves members in south Pacific, Wahkiakum, Cowlitz, Clark, Skamania and Klickitat counties, and the Cowlitz Indian Tribe.
The Healthcare Alliance plays an important role in the region by promoting emergency preparedness and response collaboration, working together as a region to improve the ability of our communities to respond to and recover from disasters and protect the health of our citizens in times of crisis.