How well prepared are hospitals for future crises? Board members perceive their hospitals as resilient for acute crises.

ABSTRACT: Resilience is an organizational capacity in day-to-day practice and crisis situation performance. A one of a kind crisis for hospitals is the COVID-19 pandemic. The long duration and magnitude of this crisis offers the opportunity to gain insight into the complexity of crisis management and organizational resilience of hospitals. This interview study therefore explored the organizational resilience of Dutch hospitals during the first 14 months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nine board members of nine Dutch hospitals were interviewed by means of a semi-structured interview that was built on thirteen indicators of organizational resilience. The results showed that board members considered their hospitals as resilient on almost all indicators. Their judgments varied about how prepared and ready fo

SUBMITTER: Schlinkert C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11251290 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature