Expert Disaster Preparedness for
Healthcare’s Critical Frontlines

GRP specializes in disaster preparedness strategies, training, and exercising for healthcare facilities, with a particular focusing on critical care areas. Our services ensure that healthcare professionals are well-prepared to handle emergencies while safeguarding their most vulnerable patients—infants, children, and adolescents.

By focusing on these critical areas, we ensure that healthcare facilities are always prepared to provide uninterrupted, safe care during any crisis.

Professional Services

We guide healthcare systems through every stage of preparedness with our AIM approach—Assessment, Implementation, and Maintenance/Monitoring—ensuring resilience and readiness for high-stakes areas like NICU, PICU, and OR in the face of any disaster.

    • System-wide assessment for readiness to manage all-hazards disasters

    • Specific assessment for high-risk areas (NICU, PICU, OR, etc.)

    • Regional capabilities to address healthcare surge capacity, full building evacuation, and resources & assets in disasters (pre-planned mutual aid strategies)

      • Consulting at the Federal, State, Coalition, or Health System level

    • Detailed Hazard Vulnerability Assessments (HVAs) to identify potential risks and mitigate your organization's exposure.

    • Design of strategies to minimize risk in disasters for the pediatric patient population

    • Development of unit and area patient evacuation and surge plans, weather/climate related preparedness, and address other high impact threats

    • Training, drills and exercises to support short- and long-term preparedness, response, and recovery initiatives

      • Includes high-threat special care training for fire and other disasters in the OR, NICU, PICU, etc.

    • Executive Leadership and Emergency Management team support to shift the organization towards continuous readiness

    • Ongoing education

    • Surprise or announced assessments to spot-check readiness

    • Leadership and EM team mentorship

    • Training, drills and exercises to ensure continuous readiness

Some Clients Whose Trust We Have Earned

Yale New Haven Health

Trinity Health of New England 

Connecticut Department of Health

Hartford HealthCare 

Northwest Healthcare Response Network 

Parkland Health 

Rhode Island Department of Health, Center for Emergency Preparedness & Response

Washington State Department of Health

Yale New Haven Health Trinity Health of New England  Connecticut Department of Health Hartford HealthCare  Northwest Healthcare Response Network  Parkland Health  Rhode Island Department of Health, Center for Emergency Preparedness & Response Washington State Department of Health

This Work Requires Specialized Teams

No two healthcare organizations are alike, and no two regions of the world are alike, so planning within your health system needs to align with your unique infrastructure, culture, and capabilities. We have over 30 years of highly specialized experience working in healthcare emergency management.

We are industry thought leaders and on-the-ground implementers.

We know how to deliver. Scott Aronson, President of GRP, will work with you to design your Continuous-Readiness Strategy then engage partners with the subject matter expertise that best meets your needs.

Take Your Leadership to the Next Level

We work with Executive Leaders to help you understand Continuous Readiness. By working with us, you will learn how to analyze your current capabilities, prioritize your planning, and stabilize your budgets.

If you want to be on the forefront of patient-centered planning and elevate your healthcare system, we can help.

Know Your Risk.
Build Your Resilience.