Mission:  The Delaware County Healthcare Coalition will promote regional emergency response coordination through cooperative planning, training, and exercising to jointly respond to man-made or natural emergencies.

Purpose: The Delaware County Healthcare Coalition (CHC) is a multi-agency, multi-disciplinary group of entities and individuals working together to promote, consolidate and collaborate in a unified response to emergencies affecting county healthcare organizations.

The Delaware County Healthcare Coalition endeavors to develop and promote county emergency preparedness and response capabilities of the county by:

• Strengthening medical surge capacity and capabilities
• Building relationship and partnerships
• Promoting situation awareness among county healthcare coalition members
• Facilitating communication, infomration and resource sharing
• Maximizing movement and utilization of existing resources
• Assisting emergency management and Emergency Support Function (ESF) #8 partners
• Coordinating training, drills and exercises
• Assisting in emergency response of real-world incidents

Meeting information:

Quarterly