Assess the gaps
Review existing plans, operating risks, contact lists, critical dependencies, and setting-specific requirements. Prioritize what needs attention first.
MDF Healthcare Advisory / Services
Healthcare Emergency Preparedness & Business Continuity
A plan is useful when people know what to do with it. Prepare your organization for disruption, rehearse the response, and close the gaps you find.
A good fit when
Skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies, and physician practices needing a plan review, a facilitated exercise, or practical continuity workflows.
What the work can include
From a clear question
to useful deliverables.
Build practical tools
Support plan updates, communication trees, role assignments, downtime workflows, and continuity checklists matched to your organization.
Practice the response
Facilitate a tabletop exercise using a credible scenario. Clarify decisions, escalation, staffing assumptions, and coordination with outside partners.
Follow through
Document exercise observations and an improvement plan, with responsible owners and dates. Support a repeatable review and training schedule.
Right-sized to your organization
Engagements can address a single facility, agency, or selected multi-site needs. Plan acceptance, regulatory decisions, clinical protocols, and technology implementation remain with the responsible organization and qualified specialists. An exercise is not a guarantee of regulatory credit or approval.
Before we begin
Common questions.
Are physician practices required to have an emergency plan?
The answer depends on the setting and applicable requirements. HIPAA-covered practices need contingency procedures for electronic protected health information, including backup, disaster recovery, and emergency-mode operations. That is not the same as the facility-level CMS emergency-preparedness program. Rural health clinics, FQHCs, and ambulatory surgery centers have their own requirements.
What about skilled nursing facilities?
Medicare- and Medicaid-participating long-term-care facilities have federal emergency-preparedness requirements covering planning, policies, communications, training, and testing. Florida facilities also need to address applicable state and local plan requirements. We start with your actual setting rather than a universal template.
Do home health agencies need this?
Yes. Florida home health agencies must maintain an annually updated comprehensive emergency management plan addressing continuity of patient services. Medicare-certified agencies also have federal emergency-preparedness requirements. Patient locations, staff communications, and continuity of visits require an agency-specific approach.
Can you work with our IT provider or existing plan?
Yes. The engagement can focus on operational coordination, testing, or a limited set of gaps. IT recovery, security implementation, clinical decisions, and local emergency-management approvals stay with the appropriate specialists and authorities.
Source notes
Requirements summarized for planning purposes. Reviewed September 2026; confirm current requirements for your setting.
Let’s make the next step clear
What does your organization need to move forward?
Tell us your care setting, your priority, and your timing. We’ll discuss fit and what a focused engagement could include.
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