Alternative Care Sites
Alternative Care Sites : "Alternative care sites generally are defined as "locations, preexisting or created, that serve to expand the capacity of a hospital or community to accommodate or care for patients or to protect the general population from infected individuals during mass casualty incidents". 1The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations lists 3 types of alternative care sites: (1) Facilities of opportunity, which are defined as non-medical buildings which, because of their size or proximity to a medical center, can be adapted into surge hospitals; (2) Mobile medical facilities, which are mobile surge hospitals based on tractor-trailer platforms with surgical and intensive care capabilities; and (3) Portable facilities, which are mobile medical facilities that can be set up quickly and are fully equipped, self-contained, turnkey systems usually stored in a container system and based on military medical contingency planning". 2 (Trust for America's Health, Ready or Not 2007, p. 64)
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