Health care facilities include hospitals, clinics, rehabilitation centers, long-term care (nursing homes and assisted living), and behavioral health providers. All must protect patient safety, ensure compliance, and maintain continuity of care during crises and disruptions.
The tabletop exercises below allow health care leadership teams to practice responding to realistic scenarios, including cyber incidents, workplace violence, facility emergencies, and operational disruptions that affect patient care and regulatory compliance.
Browse downloadable Conduct-It-Yourself tabletop exercises designed for health care facilities and care delivery organizations. These ready-to-run scenarios help leadership teams strengthen crisis decision-making, coordination, communications, and operational resilience during disruptive events.
Hospitals and health care facilities rely on Attainium to deliver custom tabletop exercises that strengthen resilience, protect patient safety, and support compliance with regulatory and accreditation requirements - covering emergencies such as system outages, pandemics, supply chain failures, and natural disasters.
Learn about Custom Exercises for Health Care Facilities → (Need a lower-cost option? See the Conduct It Yourself Tabletop Exercises below.)
Conduct It Yourself™ Tabletop Exercises are highly interactive tabletop exercises designed for you to conduct. Scenarios put your participants in the throes of real-life disaster situations as they unfold. Participants will make the critical decisions - and deal with the consequences of those decisions.
Conduct It Yourself Tabletop Exercises include an exercise overview, how-to instructions, forms, a script, and a ready-to-run PowerPoint slideshow with all the incidents, scenarios, and guidelines for post-exercise debriefing and discussion.
Prefer a professionally designed, developed, and delivered exercise? Learn more about our Custom Tabletop Exercises for Health Care Facilities.
Overview: A cyber attack disrupts systems, communications, and daily operations without warning. Health care leadership must assess the threat, coordinate communications, and maintain continuity of care and operations while the incident unfolds.
Exercise Focus: Crisis Management, Communications, Business Resumption
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Overview: A hazardous chemical cloud forces the facility into shelter-in-place, creating resident care, staffing, and communication challenges. Leadership must protect residents, staff, and guests while maintaining operations under restricted conditions.
Exercise Focus: Shelter-in-Place, Emergency Response, Crisis Communications
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Overview: A nearby explosion damages the facility, causes injuries, and forces evacuation of patients or residents. Leadership must coordinate emergency response, relocation, and communications while maintaining continuity of care.
Exercise Focus: Evacuation, Emergency Response, Crisis Communications
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Overview: A workplace violence incident erupts without warning, forcing staff to flee while hostages are taken and law enforcement responds. Health care leadership must manage emergency response, communications, and operational disruption while fear and chaos spread through the facility.
Exercise Focus: Emergency Response, Crisis Communications, Public Relations
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Overview: Multiple overlapping emergencies strain hospital operations, staffing, infrastructure, and communications at the same time. Leadership must coordinate response actions across patient care, facility systems, public scrutiny, and escalating operational disruption.
Exercise Focus: Emergency Response, Crisis Communications, Public Relations
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