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Home Health Care
Strengthening Preparedness for Care Beyond the Walls of Traditional Healthcare.
Home health care providers play an essential role in helping patients receive skilled nursing, therapy, personal care, and other services in their homes. During an emergency, these providers help maintain continuity of care for patients who may depend on regular visits, medications, medical equipment, and other essential services.
Home Health Care Is Critical to Regional Preparedness
Home health care extends the healthcare system directly into the homes and communities where patients live. Providers may serve individuals who are medically complex, elderly, recovering from illness or injury, or otherwise dependent on ongoing care and support.
Effective preparedness also requires strong relationships with healthcare and emergency response partners. By participating in regional planning, training, and exercises, home health organizations can strengthen their ability to support patients and maintain essential services during an incident.
Training & Exercises
Participate in training programs, exercises, workshops, and other opportunities designed to strengthen emergency preparedness and response capabilities for home health care providers.
Planning & Resources
Access coalition plans, preparedness guidance, templates, and other resources that can help home health organizations prepare for disruptions and maintain continuity of patient care.
Regional Coordination
Build relationships with hospitals, long term care facilities, emergency management, public health, EMS, and other healthcare partners to strengthen coordination across the regional healthcare system.
HOME HEALTH CARE PREPAREDNESS
Keeping Patients Connected to Care
Home health care providers are an important part of the regional healthcare system, particularly for patients whose care continues outside hospitals and other traditional healthcare settings. Preparedness helps organizations identify patients with critical needs, maintain communication, coordinate staff and resources, and respond when an emergency affects the communities they serve.
Notable Member Organizations
The Tampa Bay HMPC brings together home health care organizations and healthcare partners from across the region to strengthen preparedness, continuity of care, and community resilience.
Family Values Home Care
Senior Helpers
Care Giving w/ Love
HOME HEALTH CARE PREPAREDNESS PRIORITIES
Supporting Care Where Patients Live
Home health care providers face unique preparedness challenges because their services take place across many locations rather than within a single facility. Emergencies can affect patients, caregivers, transportation, communications, utilities, and access to essential resources at the same time.
Continuity of Patient Care
Prepare to maintain essential services for patients who rely on skilled nursing, therapy, personal care, medications, medical equipment, and other ongoing support.
Patient Communication & Prioritization
Develop processes for identifying high risk patients, maintaining communication, and prioritizing visits and services when staffing, transportation, or other resources are limited.
Severe Weather & Community Disruptions
Prepare for hurricanes, flooding, power outages, transportation disruptions, and other events that may affect patients and caregivers across multiple communities.
Regional Coordination
Strengthen relationships with hospitals, emergency management, EMS, public health, long term care organizations, and other healthcare partners to coordinate response and support patients during emergencies.
RELATED RESOURCES
Resources for Home Health Care Preparedness
Explore tools, guidance, training opportunities, and preparedness resources designed to help home health organizations strengthen readiness, continuity of care, and coordination during emergencies.
Plans & Annexes
Access coalition plans and annexes supporting regional healthcare preparedness.
Training Resources
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Events & Trainings
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Resource Library
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