Healthcare resilience requires more than compliance. It requires execution capability under pressure.

The Healthcare Imperative

Healthcare operates at the intersection of every major crisis type: natural disasters, cyber attacks, pandemics, infrastructure failures, and mass casualty events. When any of these occur, the stakes include human lives.

Yet healthcare organizations face a unique challenge: regulatory frameworks (Joint Commission, CMS Conditions of Participation, state requirements) focus heavily on documented preparedness—while providing limited guidance on building actual response capability.

The result is organizations that satisfy surveyors but struggle under real pressure.

STOIC RESILIENCE helps healthcare organizations build the operational capability that regulations intend—not just the documentation they require.

Healthcare-Specific Services

Emergency Operations Plan Development

EOPs that actually work during incidents—designed for use under stress, not just to satisfy accreditation reviewers.

• Hazard Vulnerability Analysis (HVA) with operational validation
• Hospital Incident Command System (HICS) integration
• Surge capacity planning with realistic resource assessment
• 96-hour sustainability planning

Clinical Operations Continuity

Beyond facility operations—ensuring clinical care continues under degraded conditions.

• Critical systems downtime procedures for EHR, pharmacy, and laboratory
• Patient care continuity during evacuation or shelter-in-place
• Medical supply chain resilience
• Staff surge and credentialing protocols

Healthcare Command Training

Building genuine command capability among clinical and administrative leaders.

• HICS position-specific training
• Crisis decision-making for clinical leaders
• Scarce resource allocation frameworks
• Communications under crisis conditions

Realistic Exercises

Exercises designed from real healthcare emergencies—scenarios that test actual capability, not just plan familiarity.

• Mass casualty incident exercises
• Cyber incident response for clinical systems
• Infrastructure failure scenarios
• Multi-hazard cascading events

Regulatory Alignment

All our healthcare services are designed to satisfy applicable regulatory requirements while building genuine capability:

• Joint Commission Emergency Management Standards (EM chapters)
• CMS Emergency Preparedness Rule requirements
• HIPAA Security Rule contingency planning provisions
• State and local emergency management requirements