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.
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 →Your first engagement
Know what needs attention before you rebuild the program.
A scoped Emergency Preparedness Program Review compares the documents and records you provide with the requirements applicable to your provider type.
Review
Your existing program
Risk assessment and emergency plan, policies and procedures, communication plan, and training and exercise records within the agreed scope.
Receive
A written gap summary
Documents reviewed, missing or unclear elements, items requiring follow-up, and recommended priorities.
Discuss
Your next steps
A findings conversation to decide whether development, correction, exercises or upkeep should come next.
We start with a short scoping call. You receive a written proposal with deliverables, turnaround and a fixed professional fee. Document review begins after agreement.
The review is advisory and based on the materials provided. It is not a survey, certification or guarantee of 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.
Explore healthcare exercises →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?
Additional readiness services
Strengthen the rest of your response.
Cyber Readiness in 30 Days
A four-week engagement with a realistic cyber scenario, a two-hour remote tabletop exercise, and an improvement plan for leadership and operations.
Explore Cyber Readiness →Continuity & Crisis
Clarify essential operations, recovery priorities, decision authority and communications. Retest after improvements.
Explore Continuity & Crisis →Property Assessments
Interior and exterior observations with practical priorities for residential and business properties.
Explore Assessments →Know where your program stands.
Tell us your provider type, what is coming due and where you need help.
Or call 770-802-0148.