Trainings, Drills & Exercises: Hospital and Primary Care Centers Tabletop Toolkit

New York City's toolkit can be used as a starting point to design, conduct, and evaluate tabletop exercises to enhance hospital preparedness for emergencies, such as pandemic influenza. The materials include a pandemic influenza scenario, break-out group assignments, a sample agenda, assessment tools, sample physical layouts, and question databases for moderators and participants. One reviewer felt that the tabletop toolkit did not provide specific information on addressing pandemic-related issues in hospitals. However, a second reviewer suggested that the toolkit may be useful if it were adapted by hospitals to assess surge capacity and ultimately enhance preparedness.