Leadership
Who takes control? Who has decision authority when time is limited?
Healthcare emergency preparedness
Ready for the survey. Ready for the emergency.
If a surveyor asked for your emergency plan, risk assessment, communication plan and exercise records today, would they hold up? Mitigate America develops, corrects and exercises CMS emergency preparedness programs for healthcare facilities.
CMS Emergency Preparedness
Program development, deficiency correction, exercises and annual upkeep, scoped to your provider type.
All-hazards risk assessment
Policies & communication plan
Training & exercises
Deficiency correction
CMS emergency preparedness
Start where your program is today.
Develop
Program development
Risk assessment and emergency plan, policies and procedures, communication plan, and training and testing program, built around your facility.
Correct
Deficiency correction
Cited at survey? We help you prepare the plan of correction and the documentation behind it, on the survey timeline.
Exercise & maintain
Exercises and annual upkeep
Tabletop and functional exercises, After-Action Reports and the periodic review that keeps the program current.
Specific CMS requirements vary by provider/supplier type and circumstances. No engagement by itself establishes compliance.
Readiness vs. planning
A plan is not proof of readiness.
Templates and AI can help create plans. Technical providers can protect systems. Mitigate America tests how your organization actually responds—people, decisions, operations, communications and dependencies.
We put the questions in front of the people who may actually have to answer them.
See how we test readiness →Operations
What must continue? What gets restored first when everything cannot be recovered at once?
Coordination
How will you communicate? When do insurers, legal counsel, vendors and other partners become involved?
Cyber Readiness in 30 Days
What would a cyberattack do to your business?
Could you keep operating? Would your leadership team know what to do? Cyber Readiness in 30 Days puts your plans, people and critical operations through a realistic cyber scenario in four weeks, without a months-long exercise-planning cycle.
Week 1
Understand
We learn your critical operations, systems, vendors, leadership structure, dependencies and existing plans.
Week 2
Build
We develop a realistic cyber scenario around your organization, not a generic exercise.
Week 3
Prepare
We finalize participants, scenario developments, exercise materials and logistics.
Week 4
Exercise
We facilitate a live two-hour remote tabletop exercise with the people who make decisions.
Then
Improve
You receive an Actionable Improvement Plan documenting observations, gaps, priorities and corrective actions.
What you walk away with
Findings your team can act on Monday.
Every observation in the improvement plan is tied to what happened in the exercise, why it matters to the business, what to do about it and who owns it.
What the engagement delivers →IMPROVEMENT PLAN · FINDING 3ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE
- Observation
- No one could confirm who has authority to shut down billing systems after hours.
- Why it matters
- The decision stalled for 25 minutes of exercise time while encryption continued to spread.
- Corrective action
- Name a primary and alternate decision-maker and document the criteria for shutdown.
- Owner and priority
- Chief Operating Officer · High · 30 days
After the exercise
We found the gaps. Now fix them.
An exercise is valuable because of what the organization does with the findings.
Business Continuity
If the exercise reveals unclear critical operations, dependencies, workarounds or recovery priorities, we develop or strengthen your continuity program.
Strengthen Business Continuity →Crisis Management
If leadership roles, escalation, decision authority, coordination or communications are unclear, we develop a practical crisis-management structure.
Strengthen Crisis Management →Retest
After corrective actions are implemented, exercise the organization again to determine whether the changes actually improved readiness.
Explore Retesting →Test→Find→Fix→Retest
Experience behind the approach
Experience managing complex disruption.
44Presidential disaster declarations supported
400+Jurisdictions supported through leadership work
16States served through leadership assignments
$3B+Recovery funding managed across leadership assignments
Career experience figures; not presented as a tally of Mitigate America contracts.
Mitigate America is led by Royce Woodruff, D.Sc. Decades of complex recovery and emergency-management leadership inform how we approach coordination, decision-making, continuity, exercises and organizational readiness.
A disaster, a facility emergency and a cyber disruption look different, but the leadership problem is the same: incomplete information, competing priorities, many parties and limited time.
Explore our experience →Test readiness. Find the gaps. Fix what matters.
Start with a short conversation about what could disrupt your organization.
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