Campus activity: IMPACTS modular surge facility testing at Vanderhoef Lawn
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The Vanderhoef Lawn will be closed Sunday, April 13, through Friday, April 25, for a modular surge facility testing exercise. This exercise will not impact any traffic or pedestrian routes.
Map of the IMPACTS project location.
The Improving Modular Patient Admission Capacity Through Scalable Solutions (IMPACTS) project will be testing interoperability between medical shelters from different vendors. The project, sponsored by the Department of Defense (Defense Health Agency), conducts tests of rapid mechanisms designed to increase national patient care capacity and medical surge capability at scale.
Aerial view of a Modular Surge Facility.
IMPACTS is a pilot program that partners with the National Disaster Medical System. The Department of Emergency Medicine is leading this project, and numerous other UC Davis Health patient care and operations departments are participating and supporting it.
For further information regarding the IMPACTS project, please contact Ly Nguyen in the Department of Emergency Medicine at tlynguyen@ucdavis.edu.
