HCA EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT EXAM
STUDY GUIDE 2026
QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED ANSWERS
Healthcare focused on - ANSWER-- Individual
- changes focus to save those with the greatest chance of survival
Emergency management focused on - ANSWER-- Population
- Help the largest # of people with the fewest resources
Healthcare and emergency management have conflict with relationship with - ANSWER-
Morbidity and Mortality
Healthcare and emergency also look at - ANSWER-Protecting life, property, and the
environment
Public believe that hospitals have - ANSWER-- Light
- Heat
- Air conditioning
- Water
- Food
- Communications
Hospitals prepare for emergency with - ANSWER-- Mass vaccination
- Pandemic planning
- Increase hospital's ability to perform decontamination of casualties contamination and
hazardous materials
Healthcare emergency management activities - ANSWER-- Communication (Intra & Inter
Agency)
- Surge capacity planning
- Volunteer management and credentialing
- Security
- Hazmat/CBRNE preparedness
- Public health emergency readiness Education and training of personnel
, - Maintenance of equipment and supplies
- Worker health & safety concerns
- Planning and facilitating drills and exercises
- Coordinating hospital disaster operations and incident management
Communication (Intra & Inter) - ANSWER-Addressing the vulnerabilities in communication
systems and planning how to overcome them is an essential responsibility of a hospital
emergency manager
Surge capacity planning - ANSWER-shortages in the healthcare workforce, and the general lack
of available supplemental medical equipment and supplies in hospitals, the medical community
is not prepared to handle a patient surge caused by an infectious disease outbreak or bioterrorism
related event.
General Accounting Office (GAO) - ANSWER-
Collaboration, Cooperation, and Coordination - ANSWER-
Collaboration hospital disaster operations and incident management - ANSWER-- continuous
medical monitoring and follow-up of the survivors, responders, and participants in these events
is needed to detect the associated long-term health effects.
- need for medical care, disease surveillance, and follow-up studies is essential to the completion
of the public health role in a disaster or other public health emergency.
Role of Hospital/Healthcare Emergency Manager - ANSWER-an individual employed by a
healthcare organization whose job is to coordinate the emergency management functions of the
hospital.
Duties of Healthcare Emergency Manager - ANSWER-
Hospitals may not have an emergency manager because - ANSWER-- Shortage of qualified
individuals
- No return of investment
- fixed, but necessary cost
Role of position - ANSWER-- hazard vulnerability analysis/vulnerability , planning activities,
coordination of the hospital's disaster and other emergency management planning groups or
committees
- design and conduct training programs, perform drills and exercises
- interact with other agencies and organizations involved in healthcare emergency management
(e.g., local public health department, local office of emergency management, EMS, local law
STUDY GUIDE 2026
QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED ANSWERS
Healthcare focused on - ANSWER-- Individual
- changes focus to save those with the greatest chance of survival
Emergency management focused on - ANSWER-- Population
- Help the largest # of people with the fewest resources
Healthcare and emergency management have conflict with relationship with - ANSWER-
Morbidity and Mortality
Healthcare and emergency also look at - ANSWER-Protecting life, property, and the
environment
Public believe that hospitals have - ANSWER-- Light
- Heat
- Air conditioning
- Water
- Food
- Communications
Hospitals prepare for emergency with - ANSWER-- Mass vaccination
- Pandemic planning
- Increase hospital's ability to perform decontamination of casualties contamination and
hazardous materials
Healthcare emergency management activities - ANSWER-- Communication (Intra & Inter
Agency)
- Surge capacity planning
- Volunteer management and credentialing
- Security
- Hazmat/CBRNE preparedness
- Public health emergency readiness Education and training of personnel
, - Maintenance of equipment and supplies
- Worker health & safety concerns
- Planning and facilitating drills and exercises
- Coordinating hospital disaster operations and incident management
Communication (Intra & Inter) - ANSWER-Addressing the vulnerabilities in communication
systems and planning how to overcome them is an essential responsibility of a hospital
emergency manager
Surge capacity planning - ANSWER-shortages in the healthcare workforce, and the general lack
of available supplemental medical equipment and supplies in hospitals, the medical community
is not prepared to handle a patient surge caused by an infectious disease outbreak or bioterrorism
related event.
General Accounting Office (GAO) - ANSWER-
Collaboration, Cooperation, and Coordination - ANSWER-
Collaboration hospital disaster operations and incident management - ANSWER-- continuous
medical monitoring and follow-up of the survivors, responders, and participants in these events
is needed to detect the associated long-term health effects.
- need for medical care, disease surveillance, and follow-up studies is essential to the completion
of the public health role in a disaster or other public health emergency.
Role of Hospital/Healthcare Emergency Manager - ANSWER-an individual employed by a
healthcare organization whose job is to coordinate the emergency management functions of the
hospital.
Duties of Healthcare Emergency Manager - ANSWER-
Hospitals may not have an emergency manager because - ANSWER-- Shortage of qualified
individuals
- No return of investment
- fixed, but necessary cost
Role of position - ANSWER-- hazard vulnerability analysis/vulnerability , planning activities,
coordination of the hospital's disaster and other emergency management planning groups or
committees
- design and conduct training programs, perform drills and exercises
- interact with other agencies and organizations involved in healthcare emergency management
(e.g., local public health department, local office of emergency management, EMS, local law
