Healthcare Preparedness
The Eastern Healthcare Preparedness Coalition has four meetings each year which allow local healthcare partners to come together to address preparedness and response topics impacting eastern North Carolina. By signing up to be a part of the coalition, our partners will receive meeting invitations, important news, and an opportunity to participate in educational offerings and trainings.
News
Ever wonder what your healthcare coalition is doing for your community and the region? Take a quick look here for some of our major projects and best practices from Fiscal Year 2017-2018.
Alternate Care Facility Trailers of Use During Hurricane Florence
Prior to Hurricane Florence, hospitals, ancillary care facilities, and EMS agencies were working through every avenue to request cots to help billet […]
EHPC Communications Unit Supports Regional Hospital
Following Hurricane Florence, eastern North Carolina was facing widespread critical communications outages. EHPC was able to support a regional hospital […]
EHPC COMU
EHPC SMAT is capable of supporting mission critical communication needs on a local, regional and statewide basis. The unit consists of North Carolina credentialed AHIMT Communication Unit Leader and Communication Unit Technician positions. The team is capable of deploying for a minimum of seventy two hours in the support of IMT/incident/planned event support. The unit is equipped for all modes in a variety of portable platforms.
EHPC: Our Mission
To facilitate coordination and cooperation throughout the region of Eastern North Carolina by ensuring partners have the capability to mitigate, prepare, respond, and recover from critical health events.