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Mission & Vision

Mission:

To support, coordinate and emergency manage statewide healthcare system emergency preparedness, mitigation, response operations and recovery for all hazard major emergencies, and disasters.

Our Core Missions:

1.       PROVIDE ALERTS, WARNINGS, NOTIFICATIONS

  • HHEM provides timely critical alerts, warning, notification via the coalition communication and information system.

2.      COORDINATE HEALTH CARE RESPONSE OPERATIONS

  • HHEM Emergency Operations Center (HHEMEOC) coordinates overall healthcare emergency response and recovery operations statewide with county, state and federal agencies.
  • HHEM Area Coordinators positioned within each county emergency operating center assist with the coordination of coalition operations at the county-level.

 3.      DEPLOY EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAMS

  • Kalawao Rescue (The non-federal disaster medical assistance team) provides on-scene, high-acuity casualty care services, evacuation assistance and care, highly infectious disease patient containment transport, AE critical care transport, etc.
  • Hospital Emergency Response Team (HERT) personnel augment clinical operations in one or more hospital facilities to support medical surge.
  • Incident Management Assistance Team (IMAT) assist with operation support and coordination of an event or incident via the Operation Support Center (OSC).
  • Incident Management Teams (IMT) assist individual hospitals with complex operations – subject matter experts, communications, just-in-time training

4.      MOBILIZE HEALTH CARE DELIVERY SYSTEMS 

  • Pre-positioned, air-transportable 20 and 50-bed Acute Care Modules (ACM) augment hospital services or support on-scene medical care – total of 150 beds
  • Disaster Aero-medical Staging Facility (DASF) supports casualty evacuations at airport facilities by civilian and military aircraft
  • Isolation and quarantine unit supports and provides care for large numbers of suspected highly infectious individuals in an alternative care facility setting.

5.      PROVIDE LOGISTICAL SUPPORT AND COORDINATION

  • Coordinated by HHEM Emergency Operation Center and Operations Support Center (HHEMOSC) in Honolulu.
  • HHEM Area Caches (HAC) containers, and single resources such as ventilators, pharmaceuticals, personal protective equipment, generators, emergency meals, voice and data communications, medical oxygen, HEPA scrubbers, chemical & radiological instruments and related equipment and supplies, etc.

6.      SUPPORT PLANNING and PREPAREDNESS

  • Training and exercise program
  • Technical assistance, workshops and planning workgroups

 Vision:

To develop, sustain and maintain a safer, less vulnerable statewide healthcare system with the capacity to cope with hazards and disasters.