Alternate care site
Alternate Care Site
Alternate Care Site (pronunciation: /ˈɔːltərnət/ /keər/ /saɪt/) is a term used in the field of Healthcare and Emergency Management to refer to a location that is not traditionally used for providing patient care, but can be adapted to do so during a public health emergency or disaster.
Etymology
The term "Alternate Care Site" is derived from the English words "alternate" (meaning 'other of two'), "care" (meaning 'the provision of what is necessary for the health, welfare, maintenance, and protection of someone or something'), and "site" (meaning 'an area of ground on which a town, building, or monument is constructed').
Definition
An Alternate Care Site is a facility that is temporarily converted for healthcare use during a public health emergency to reduce the burden on hospitals and other traditional healthcare settings. These sites can be used to provide care to patients who are not critically ill, allowing hospitals to focus their resources on those who need the most intensive care.
Related Terms
- Emergency Management: The organization and management of resources and responsibilities for dealing with all humanitarian aspects of emergencies, in particular preparedness, response and recovery in order to lessen the impact of disasters.
- Healthcare: The organized provision of medical care to individuals or a community.
- Public Health Emergency: An occurrence or imminent threat of an illness or health condition, caused by bioterrorism, epidemic or pandemic disease, or novel and highly fatal infectious agents or biological toxins, that poses a substantial risk of a significant number of human fatalities or incidents of permanent or long-term disability.
- Disaster Medicine: The area of medical specialization serving the dual areas of providing health care to disaster survivors and providing medically related disaster preparation, disaster planning, disaster response and disaster recovery leadership throughout the disaster life cycle.
External links
- Medical encyclopedia article on Alternate care site
- Wikipedia's article - Alternate care site
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