Six-Tier Model

Tier 1— This level encompasses all individual healthcare organizations in a geographic area 

Tier 2— This tier consists of a formed coalition sharing assets and incident information, exchanging resonrce statns information to supports mutual aid, coordinating response strategies and tactics, and nsing a common interface with local jurisdictional authorities to exchange information and reqnest assistance. 

Tier 3— This level includes municipal, county, or similar agencies with jurisdiction over the impacted areas and responsibility for the local government responses. 

Tier 4— This level refers to state-level response that snpports Tiers 1-3 by managing statewide and substate regional coordination of the healthcare response activities. 

Tier 5— This state-level response level manages interstate regional coordination of response to support Tiers 1-3 healthcare response assets. 

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