Health Care Facility-Level Extended Downtime Assessment

This voluntary tool is designed to help individual health care facilities evaluate their current state of downtime readiness and identify gaps, promising practices, and current policies. It can also serve as a tool to guide discussions; develop surveys; identify promising practices; and outline areas for education, engagement, and support. Health care coalitions (HCC) may also use this tool to engage members for the HCC Extended Downtime Impact Assessment. This assessment is not mandatory for health care facilities or HCCs; it is intended to support internal or jurisdictional planning. Note that this tool also considers utility failures as a form of downtime to promote broader discussions with the HCC about operational redundancy and potential gaps. Access the Word version here: https://files.asprtracie.hhs.gov/documents/aspr-tracie-health-facility-level-downtime-assessment.docx