• News Release - Joint Commission Issues Guide To Ready America's Communities For Natural Disasters And Terror Attacks
  
  
• Executive Summary - Standing Together: An Emergency Planning Guide for America's Communities
  
  
• Standing Together: An Emergency Planning Guide for America's Communities (Requires Adobe Reader)
  
  
• Thirteen Essential Components of the Planning Process
  
  
• Quick Statistics on Emergency Planning
  
  
• Examples of States and Cities that are Standing Together
  
  
• Spokespersons
  
  
  • Joseph L. Cappiello, Vice President, Accreditation Field Operations, Joint Commission
    
    
  • Robert A. Wise, M.D., Vice President, Division of  Standards and Survey Methods, Joint Commission

Additional Resources

• "Assessing Public Health and the Delivery of Care in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina" - September 22, 2005
  
  
• Community-Based Emergency Management Roundtable Membership
  
  
• Background on Standing Together: An Emergency Planning Guide for America's Communities
  
  
• Related 2006 Accreditation Standards
  
  
• March 2003 White Paper: Health Care At The Crossroads: Strategies for Creating and Sustaining Community-wide Emergency Preparedness Systems