125 - Emad Hassan

Understanding the behavior of hospitals is essential specially after major earthquakes. A comprehensive framework is presented to estimate losses of hospital clusters, quantity and quality functionality and recovery. The framework includes the recovery of different lifelines and is applied to Shelby County as a testbed to investigate the effect of interdependence on functionality and recovery assessment as well as the mutual effect of the hospitals. A patient-driven model is introduced to estimate the demand on each hospital, which affects the quality of the hospitalization service. This framework can be utilized by emergency planners for pre- and post-disaster recovery management