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4/2/2025
Oregon's Hospital Preparedness Program - Project Abstract Summary Oregon HPP Cooperative Agreement, June 2024 The Oregon Health Authority’s Public Health Division will continue the implementation of the Hospital Preparedness Program cooperative agreement through the Health Security, Preparedness and Response program. The majority of financial resources are distributed to the seven Health Care Coalitions (HCCs) or support the state employee coalition coordinators stationed in each region, and the remainder support state-level program management and state-level planning, training and exercises. The Health Security Preparedness and Response (HSPR) program builds on a substantial infrastructure, workforce, and history: the program has a documented history of 42 incident management activations since 2006. Purpose: HSPR will continue to maintain and grow the strong Health Care Coalitions and state-local-tribal public health partnerships and programs that it has established in the five regional HCCs and each of the 36 counties, and all nine tribes. HSPR aims to improve patient outcomes, minimize the need for external resources during emergencies, and enable rapid recovery from catastrophic events by further developing Oregon’s long-standing HCCs. HSPR will continue to leverage the HPP and PHEP cooperative agreements in tandem through a continuous cycle of planning, organizing, training, equipping, exercising, responding and recovering, evaluating, and taking corrective action with a health equity lens. Outcomes: As OHA and Oregon’s HCCs develop work plans in budget period 1 and future budget periods, planning will focus on advancing key outcomes including: • Establish and act on multi-year priorities to (a) Support health care delivery system readiness to respond to the shifting threat landscape and community needs over multiple years, and (b) enable continuous programmatic and administrative improvement on multi-year priorities. • Enhance and sustain HCCs through HCC governance, management, and operations that reflect community partnerships. • Support coordination in order to have (a) coordinated planning and decision-making among health care delivery system partners, and (b) provide integrated health care response incident management (Emergency Support Function #8) by state, local, tribal, and territorial agencies, HCCs, and other partners. • Support continuity of health care service delivery through a resilient health care workforce able to safely meet response and recovery demands, and with sufficient space, systems, staff, and resources to support patient movement and patient care delivery during response and recovery.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).