(HPP) Performance Measure Manual

APPENDIX A
Pharmaceutical Cache: A collection of pharmaceuticals, antidotes, and medical supplies designed to
provide rapid delivery of a broad spectrum of assets for an ill-defined threat in the early hours of an
event. Prophylactic pharmaceutical caches can protect healthcare workers from illness, allowing them to
continue delivering important healthcare services. In addition, providing prophylaxis to healthcare
workers’ families enhances response by theoretically allowing the worker to remain on duty rather than
having to care for an ill family member.
Prophylaxis: A medical or public health procedure undertaken to prevent, rather than treat or cure, a
disease.
Recovery Processes: Those capabilities necessary to assist communities affected by an incident to
recover effectively, including, but not limited to, rebuilding infrastructure systems; providing
adequate interim and long-term housing for survivors; restoring health, social, and community
services; promoting economic development; and restoring natural and cultural resources
(http://www.fema.gov/pdf/recoveryframework/ndrf.pdf). Examples include: the development,
coordination, and execution of service- and site-restoration plans; the reconstitution of government
operations and services; individual, private-sector, nongovernmental, and public assistance programs to
provide housing and promote restoration; long-term care and treatment of affected persons; additional
measures for social, political, environmental, and economic restoration; evaluation of the incident to
identify “lessons learned”; post incident reporting; and development of initiatives to mitigate the effects
of future incidents.
Resilience: The ability of an asset, system, network or function, to maintain its capabilities and function
during and in the aftermath of an all-hazards incident. (Healthcare Preparedness Capabilities)
Situational Awareness: The ability to identify, process, and comprehend the essential information about
an incident to inform the decision making process in a continuous and timely cycle and includes the
ability to interpret and act upon this information.
Supply Chain: A system of organizations, people, technology, activities, information, and resources
involved in moving a product or service from supplier to customer.
Surge Capacity: The ability to evaluate and care for a markedly increased volume of patients—one that
challenges or exceeds normal operating capacity. Requirements may extend beyond direct patient care
to include other medical tasks, such as extensive laboratory studies or epidemiologic investigations.
Trigger: An event which initiates certain actions.
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