A Guide to Healthcare Facility Dress Rehearsal Simulation Planning: Simplifying the Complex

In 2009 three consultants, green to the consulting industry were tasked with a new challenge, the activation and licensing of a new, 100 bed hospital, in only 90 days. Pulling from concept of ＂Day in the Life＂ simulations used in the military, the Hospital Incident Command System (HICS), and adult learning theories the consultants developed a method that healthcare facilities could use to ensure readiness. Thus, was born the concept of Dress Rehearsal.

A Guide to Healthcare Facility Dress Rehearsal Simulation Planning: Simplifying the Complex provides a step-by-step scalable framework to coordinate an Interdisciplinary Dress Rehearsal event for a project or facility of any size.

Developed for use as a resource throughout your Dress Rehearsal journey, each chapter of this guide builds upon the last and should be read in succession. We hope you leverage our lessons learned and experience and apply them to your facility to support a safe Day 1 activation.

Kelly Guzman, MN, RN, EDAC is the Founder and President of Yellow Brick Consulting, Inc. With more than 30 years of healthcare experience she has helped pioneer the field of Transition and Activation Planning. Her career started as a pediatric and ER nurse and progressed to hospital administrative positions before finding her passion for Transition and Activation Planning while working at UCLA on the new Ronald Reagan Medical Center. She has worked in the Transition and Activation Planning field for over 15 years and helped activate over 60 new facilities across North America. Kelly has a master’s degree focused in Nursing Administration from UCLA.