According to a new report by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, the health sector in the United States would be far better positioned to manage medical care needs during emergencies of any scale by empowering existing healthcare coalitions to connect community resilience efforts with a network of hospitals equipped to handle disasters.
http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/pubs_archive/pubs-pdfs/2018/180222-framework-healthcare-disaster-resilience.pdf