Beaver Stadium Activity

• We will be doing a live meeting on Elluminate Live to lay out expectations in order to provide helpful tips for activities in the course.

Readings and Reflections on ERPs

As you work through this week's required readings, focus on the following questions:

• What critical infrastructure systems for health care delivery are addressed in the readings?
• Are these systems addressed at all in the Bowling County EMS or Hospital ERPs? (See these ERPs in your team's Team Files area (Communicate > Team Files)
  • If so, in what way are they addressed?
  • If not, how/where might they be incorporated into the ERPs?

Based on your reflections, post to the class Lesson Readings discussion as follows:

1. By 11:59 p.m. EST on Wednesday, post a 3-5 sentence summary of your responses to each question.
2. By 11:59 p.m. EST on Friday, post a 3-5 sentence response to at least two other students' responses.

Infrastructure Systems Interdependencies Worksheet

In this activity, you will complete a worksheet in which you provide real world examples of the four classes of interdependencies identified in this lesson.

Vulnerability Assessment Grid Practice

In this activity, your team will apply the Vulnerability Assessment Grid to a familiar local entity to gain practice in the process. For the purpose of this activity, your team should select *one* of the following entities and complete a vulnerability assessment using the grid:

• Elementary school
• Shopping center
• Public library

(Note that you will have to self organize to decide how you want to approach this activity. You do have access to a team discussion area for collaboration). Each team should submit its completed document to the Vulnerability Assessment: Practice drop box. 

An example of how to complete a vulnerability assessment grid can be found in Appendix A: Critical Assets Methodology (pp. 21-24), US Department of Energy. (2002). Vulnerability Assessment Methodology, Electric Power Infrastructure. Retrieved May 16, 2006, from http://cipbook.infracritical.com/book3/chapter7/ch7ref9.pdf. This construction of this grid specifically addresses corporate assets.

Get to Know Bowling County

Throughout this course, you will be exploring hypothetical Bowling County with an eye toward critical infrastructure protection for its health care delivery systems. For the purpose of this activity, you should peruse the Bowling County web site to get a quick, high level picture of the region.

Optional Survey

Please complete the optional survey at the end of this week to provide feedback on your experience with the course so far. The survey is anonymous, so please be honest!

Works Cited

Barbera, J., & Macintyre, A. (2002). Mass Casualty Medical and Health Incident Management. Washington, DC: The George Washington University. Retrieved May 16, 2006, from http://www.gwu.edu/~icdrm/publications/MaHIM%20V2%20final%20report%20sec%202.pdf

Hirsch, G. (2004). \"Modeling the Consequences of Major Incidents for Health Care Systems.\" Retrieved March 17, 2006, from http://www.systemdynamics.org/conf2004/SDS_2004/PAPERS/121HIRSC.pdf

Rinaldi, S.M., Peerenboom, J.P., & Kelly, T.K. (2001, December). \"Identifying, understanding, and analyzing critical Infrastructure interdependencies.\" Control Systems Magazine, IEEE, Vol. 21, No. 6. Retrieved March 17, 2006, from http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?isnumber=20901&arnumber=969131&count=11&index=1"

Rosen, J., Grigg, E., McKnight, M., Koop, C., Lillibridge, S., Kindberg, B., et al. (2004) \"Transforming Medicine for Biodefense and Healthcare Delivery.\" IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine, Vol. 23, No. 1. Retrieved May 15, 2006, from http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/51/28843/01297179.pdf?isnumber=&arnumber=1297179

U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). (2006). National Infrastructure Protection Plan. Retrieved July 3, 2006, from http://www.dhs.gov/interweb/assetlibrary/NIPP_Plan.pdf

US Department of Energy. (2002). Vulnerability Assessment Methodology, Electric Power Infrastructure. Retrieved May 16, 2006, from http://www.esisac.com/publicdocs/assessment_methods/VA.pdf