All Hazards Resilience: Business Continuity Planning for Health Centres and Nursing Stations

All Hazards Resilience: Business Continuity Planning for Nursing Stations and Health Centres

  • Date:06/30/2026 05:00 PM - 03/27/2030 11:00 PM
  • Location In Person
 

Description

All-Hazards Resilience: 

Business Continuity Planning for 

Health Centres and Nursing Stations


Background:


Health centres and nursing stations serve as the vital frontline of healthcare delivery in rural and remote First Nation communities. Operating far from urban hospitals, these all-in-one clinics, emergency rooms, and public health hubs must contend with several distinct operational pressures, such as geographic isolation, workforce and staffing dynamics, and infrastructure capacity failures. 

When a crisis or a disaster strikes, and there is  no nearby health facilities, alternative supply chains, or immediate emergency response teams to come to the rescue, a Business Continuity Plan is a mission-critical tool for First Nation community health centres and nursing stations, because it ensures that critical, life-saving operations can continue independently during unpredictable disruptions.


Purpose:


The All-Hazards Resilience: Business Continuity Planning Session, for Health Centres and Nursing Stations—aims to support your executive team in facilitating a human-centric business continuity planning process, along with staff and frontline workers. 

This two (2) day working session will enable you to establish a holistic governance structure, for business continuity planning, in your health centre or nursing station; conduct a human-centric business impact analysis for each program or service; develop continuity plans and arrangements for critical and non-critical services; review, test and update your business continuity plan, and communicate critical information and decisions—directly, effectively and without delay.


Linking All-Hazards Continuity Planning to Human-Centric Impact Analysis


While a traditional Business Continuity Plan (BCP) focuses heavily on data, logistics, and financial recovery, a human-centric plan treats people as the community’s most fragile, critical and valuable asset, and serves as the foundational layer that informs, prioritizes, and activates an All-Hazards BCP, dictating how the community will respond to a crisis, emergency or disaster.


Objectives:


The All-Hazards Resilience: Business Continuity Planning Session for Health Centres and Nursing Stations allows participants to develop a written plan document that includes:

  • A human-centric business impact analysis (BIA) to identify critical individuals and positions,  services, assets, and dependencies;

  • Response, recovery and mitigation measures, with trauma-counselling triggers embedded directly into the incident response checklist, to deal with the crisis, trauma and disaster impacts of unpredictable disruptions; 

  • Planning and response team(s) identification, including key contact and notification lists;

  • Roles, responsibilities and tasks of BCP coordinators and team members;

  • Community-owned partnerships for the alternate delivery and recovery of critical services ;

  • Procedures for testing, updating and maintaining the BCP;

  • A Communication Plan to disseminate critical information and decisions.

Suggested discussion topics and scenarios:


  • Information Technology (IT) and Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Downtime Procedures; 

  • Workforce Shortages and Unavailability of Staff Procedures (Cascading Standby Systems);

  • Utility and Lifeline Failure Protocols (Power Outages, Water Contamination, Communication Breakdowns);

  • Medical Supply Chain Breaches and Disruptions (Manufacturing, Temperature Control, Distribution);

  • Facility Inaccessibility and Alternative Care Sites (Decentralized Modes of Operations);

  • Other Self-Identified discussion topics or disruption scenarios.

This session is supplemented by technical documentation, examples and recommendations.


Intended Public and Process:


Audience: Tribal Governments, more particularly Local First Nation Authorities and their executive teams, administrative staff, health personnel and frontline workers.   

Duration: 2 Day Work Session—Including breakout and interactive sessions.

Post-Session Consultation: Consultations are optional and at your discretion. 

More Information:

Praxis Forum—Advisory & Risk Management Bureau

Email: evenements-events@praxis-forum.com

Web: www.praxis-forum.com


Suggested Timelines for Registration: 

Q1 2026—January 1 to March 31

Q2 2026—April 1 to June 30. 

Q3 2026—July 1 to September 30. 

Q4 2026—October 1 to December 31.