Washington – September 18, 2026 -- First Health Advisory has launched Resilience360, a consulting program designed to validate whether hospitals and health systems can keep clinical operations running during cyberattacks, technology outages, third-party failures, and natural disasters.
Program targets the gap between disaster recovery plans and actual clinical continuity
Healthcare organizations have invested heavily in disaster recovery, incident response, and emergency preparedness, but many have not validated how clinical and operational workflows will continue functioning while systems are being restored, according to First Health Advisory. Resilience360 is built to close that gap by testing the people, processes, and workflows required to sustain patient care throughout a disruption, rather than adding another compliance framework.
Consulting engagement evaluates critical functions and recovery priorities
The program assesses critical business functions, clinical workflows, downtime procedures, key operational dependencies, and the specific points where services begin to degrade. Organizations receive a documented view of operational readiness, recovery priorities, and the resources needed to sustain continuity of care, positioned as a complement to existing disaster recovery and incident response programs.
CEO says organizations need validated confidence, not more frameworks
"Healthcare organizations do not need another framework. They need confidence that they can continue delivering care when disruption occurs," said Carter Groome, CEO of First Health Advisory. He said the program helps organizations identify where operational risk actually exists and build practical plans that allow care to continue regardless of the cause of disruption.
Southeastern Health System reports the exercise exposed unconsidered dependencies
A Chief Digital & Information Officer at Southeastern Health System said the engagement went beyond a paper review of existing plans, pressure-testing how the organization would respond if critical technology became unavailable and surfacing dependencies and coordination gaps across teams that had not previously been identified.
Delivery team combines clinical, engineering, and compliance expertise
Rick LeMay, Chief Delivery Officer at First Health Advisory, said the firm's multidisciplinary team spans clinical operations, clinical engineering, cybersecurity, privacy, and compliance, arguing that sustaining patient care during a disruption requires input from all of these functions rather than a single specialty. Resilience360 is aimed at hospitals, health systems, and other covered entities, and is structured as a flexible engagement for organizations at any stage of operational resiliency maturity, from building foundational capabilities to validating mature continuity plans.