ABSTRACT
This chapter explores a brief history of healthcare emergency management in the United States, the role healthcare plays in emergency management, and the Crisis Standards of Care. Healthcare emergency management is thus a newer focus in healthcare with growing importance following the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the US While there are many lessons learned from the healthcare emergency management response to COVID-19 and volumes yet to be written on the subject over the next decade, this chapter highlights a handful of contemporary healthcare emergency management issues. The following challenges affecting healthcare emergency management are examined: COVID-19 challenges and healthcare emergency management, COVID-19 healthcare surge capacity, COVID-19 ethics of patient triage during a pandemic, NIMS/ICS implementation and training, and lastly concerns about learned from the War in Ukraine's impact on healthcare systems.
