TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - Resilience of the Canterbury Hospital System to the 2011 Christchurch Earthquake
JO  - Earthquake spectra
A1  - Jacques, Caitlin C.
A1  - McIntosh, Jason
A1  - Giovinazzi, Sonia
A1  - Kirsch, Thomas D.
A1  - Wilson, Thomas
A1  - Mitrani-Reiser, Judith
SP  - 533
EP  - 554
VL  - 30
IS  - 1
N2  - The paper analyzes the performance of a hospital system using a holistic and multidisciplinary approach. Data on impacts to the hospital system were collected using a standardized survey tool. A fault-tree analysis method is adopted to assess the functionality of critical hospital services based on three main contributing factors: staff, structure, and stuff. Damage to utility networks and to nonstructural components was found to have the most significant effect on hospital functionality. The functional curve is integrated over time to estimate the resilience of the regional acute-care hospital with and without the redistribution of its major services. The ability of the hospital network to offer redundancies in services after the earthquake increased the resilience of the Christchurch Hospital by 12%. The resilience method can be used to assess future performance of hospitals, and to quantify the effectiveness of seismic retrofits, hospital safety legislation, and new seismic preparedness strategies.
LA  - en
SN  - 8755-2930
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1193/032013EQS074M
ID  - ref1
ER  -