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"The Start2Finish program has finally provided us the opportunity to effectively manage the manpower pool in an all hazards approach to emergency management while concurrently meeting JCAHO elements of performance." Jim Kendig, Vice President "Start2Finish is a very practical way to operationalize a hospital response in terms of who is participating as responders, where they are deployed and how they will function with supplies etc. The approach has flexibility to be adapted to any type of building design and the color-coding works to make it easy for those coming to assist to know where to go. We've adopted it whole-heartedly changing signage, identifying appropriate team members by asset-typing, and including the approach in our hospital-wide training. It's a model approach that's easy to use and understand!" Mary Russell EdD MSN, Research & Organizational Preparedness Specialist "This Disaster Response Model has provided a more organized, systematic approach to pre-organize our Hospital's resources into the appropriate Red, Yellow, Green, Black and Non-Clinical Labor pool groups and allocate the supplies into these same sections. Having these staff members educated, vested and organized will help us get the resources we need to treat these disaster patients in a timely manner." Doug Lindstrom, Emergency Center Operations Manager |