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Planning for disasters after Katrina and Rita: a successful outcome depends heavily on staff commitment.
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Behavioral Health Management
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January 1, 2006
- Author:
- Enos, Gary A.; Edwards, Douglas J.
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Most behavioral health agency executives who witnessed one or more fierce storms during the past two hurricane seasons would agree with the adage, "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail." But many of those who experienced some of Mother Nature's fury would quickly warn that even the best planners will see that their plans inevitably change.
In military terms, "No plan survives the first shot," says James Clifford, CFO at Peace River Center in Bartow, Florida, where operations were affected several times during Florida's hurricane ordeal of 2004. "But if you have thought about it, and then things don't go the way you expected, you're far ahead of the people who haven't ...