Consider what you now know about critical infrastructures, perhaps focusing on three different ones or common threads that you find throughout and,
focusing on just three, share your thoughts. For each, individually discuss What is it? Why is it an issue? How does it affect the security of our nation?
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Power Grid: The power grid is a system of interconnected electric power plants, transmission lines, and substations that provides electricity to homes and businesses in the United States. It is an issue because it is vulnerable to cyberattacks and natural disasters, which can cause widespread disruption in electrical service delivery. Cyberattacks could be used to shut down large portions of the grid while natural disasters such as earthquakes or hurricanes could damage physical infrastructure components rendering them unusable until they are repaired. This can have catastrophic effects on our nation’s security by leaving citizens without essential services like healthcare, communications systems, water supply systems, etc., for extended periods of time.
Sample Solution
Power Grid: The power grid is a system of interconnected electric power plants, transmission lines, and substations that provides electricity to homes and businesses in the United States. It is an issue because it is vulnerable to cyberattacks and natural disasters, which can cause widespread disruption in electrical service delivery. Cyberattacks could be used to shut down large portions of the grid while natural disasters such as earthquakes or hurricanes could damage physical infrastructure components rendering them unusable until they are repaired. This can have catastrophic effects on our nation’s security by leaving citizens without essential services like healthcare, communications systems, water supply systems, etc., for extended periods of time.
The organization evaluated is a non-profit hospital system in Northern Nevada serving both a rural and urban demographic. The author has experience in both a clinical supervisory role within this organization and as a community partner continuing to work with the organizations top managers on initiatives to serve the health care needs of the community. This organization is locally governed with no out of state owners or shareholders and has greater than 150 community members serving on the boards or in advisory capacities.
The organization has three key initiatives. One of these key initiatives for this organization is to integrate care in an effort to better manage the health of the community. The goals of this initiative are to help the population served achieve better health through improved outcomes, manage or reduce their healthcare costs, and improve the patient experience.
The second initiative is to build key relationships through community partnerships. The goal of this initiative is to increase partnerships with physicians, employees, and community organizations. An example of this is the creation of a shared governance model to make recommendations to the leadership team. The shared governance committee is made up of designated staff from each department. This creates a partnership between the employees and the leadership and gives staff an outlet for their concerns to be heard. The hospital has also partnered with the community to offer health education classes at some of the larger churches in the area and has sponsored community gardens at some of the city parks encouraging members of the community to grow their own vegetables and encourage healthier lifestyle choices.
The third key initiative of this organization is to grow the scale and scope of the hospital system. The goal of growing in scale and scope is to develop new kinds of local, rural, and national partnerships in order to expand services for patients. These partnerships would allow for innovation in seeking new solutions and would provide opportunity to invest in and develop major service lines to meet community ne
