Facilitated tabletop
Work through continuity of care, reliable information, and recovery decisions when technology becomes unavailable.
Healthcare exercise examples
Practice the decisions.
Strengthen the response.
Explore sample scenarios for healthcare teams in South Florida and beyond. We shape each exercise around your people, plans, and priorities.
Discussion-basedWork through decisions, roles, and plans together.
Operations-basedPractice coordinated actions in a controlled setting.
Choose a starting point
Different formats. Practical learning.
Each example includes a downloadable one-page overview.
Preparedness game
Use clues, role cards, and limited resource tokens to work through a simulated utility outage and keep essential services moving.
Facilitated tabletop
Explore leadership, protective decisions, partner coordination, and continuity during a reported threat at a healthcare facility.
Facilitated tabletop
Workplace violence / threat
Workplace Safety & Continuity
A coordinated response to escalating behavior
Clarify reporting, assistance, staff support, and service continuity when threatening behavior disrupts the workplace.
Full-scale exercise
Deploy participating teams and equipment to practice simulated patient movement and continuity after severe weather disrupts a facility.
Your hazard vulnerability analysis (HVA) guides the design. We develop custom exercises across HSEEP formats, tailoring scope, participants, difficulty, and timing to your objectives.
The HVA connection
Miami-Dade healthcare HVA priorities, 2024–2025
These scenarios draw on leading hazards identified in this county healthcare coalition report. The report offers a local reference for exercise planning; priorities vary by organization and community.
| Report priority | Exercise example | Format |
|---|---|---|
| 1IT system outage | Healthcare Cyber Disruption | Tabletop |
| 2Utility outage | Mission: Keep Care Moving | Game |
| 3Active threat / active shooter | Coordinated Threat Response | Tabletop |
| 4Workplace violence / threat | Workplace Safety & Continuity | Tabletop |
| 5Severe weather | Continuity in Motion | Full-scale |
Match the format to the objective
The full range of HSEEP exercise types.
Astrúvia designs exercises across these formats. Your objectives guide the format, scope, and level of complexity.
Discussion-based
- Seminars
- Introduce or review plans, policies, procedures, and resources to build a shared understanding.
- Workshops
- Bring participants together to develop a specific product, such as a plan, procedure, or agreement.
- Tabletop exercises (TTX)
- Use a facilitated scenario discussion to examine decisions, responsibilities, and gaps in existing plans.
- Games
- Explore choices and consequences through defined rules and structured play, with competitive or collaborative teams.
Operations-based
- Drills
- Practice and evaluate a specific operation or function, such as notification, equipment use, or a downtime procedure.
- Functional exercises (FE)
- Exercise command, coordination, and multiple functions in real time, with field deployment usually simulated.
- Full-scale exercises (FSE)
- Deploy participating personnel, equipment, and resources to perform coordinated actions in a controlled exercise setting.
The Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP) guides exercise design, conduct, evaluation, and improvement planning. Learn more in the FEMA HSEEP resources.
Build around your team
Your risks. Your plans. An exercise with purpose.
Bring your risk assessment, the decisions you want to practice, and the people who need to be involved. We will shape the scenario, format, and length together.