Best Practices

• The partnership seeks to identify gaps in crisis management planning and proficiency, including recovering from simultaneous multi-incident crisis events.
• As a partnership we seek to identify, share, and grow the best practices in the healthcare institutional preparedness to bolster security, resilience, and continuity so that healthcare professionals can deliver paitient care regardless of the challenges. 
• We offer applied research / technical paper projects, workforce development, collaborative events, and consultation that are collaboratively developed to address specific issues in healthcare preparedness and security. 

Professional Development

We are in an ongoing process of developing courses for healthcare system preparedness. Based on industries’ input, SHSU-IHS has created a professional certificate program for system security that includes the following topics: 

This training certificate provides practitioners responsible for protecting critical infrastructure with skills and knowledge that can be immediately utilized to enhance security risk management operations, meet compliance requirements, AND be a value-added tool for achieving business objectives! 

Successfully complete any 5 of the 7 courses to earn a “Protecting Critical Infrastructure” Certificate from Sam Houston State University that confirms knowledge of innovative, proactive, value-added strategies to effectively protect critical infrastructure!

More are in development and will folllow. 

Get Connected

If you have interest in the following: 

• Joining the Partnership for Healthcare and Emergency Managment
• Applied Research or Technical Papers
• Workforce Development Training
• Events 

Please reach out to John Suarez, Project Manager for Healthcare and Public Health, or our main office.