Medical Surge Capacity and Capability A Management System for Integrating Medical and Health Resources During Large-Scale Emergencies

This handbook describes the changes to the federal public health and medical response structure since the development of the original MSCC handbook in 2004. The MSCC Management System describes a framework of coordination of public and private entities across six tiers of response, of which tier two is the management of healthcare coalitions (see Chapter 3). This document is considered to be a foundational document for coalition development that describes the response system and its integration into the community response structure..