none 10.1177/87552930221128607 Wiley Wiley (John Wiley & Sons) 311 142409804 5867 2026012504112200378 10.1002 2026-01-25T14:47:57Z 2022-11-17T05:20:27Z 14 Earthquake Spectra Earthquake Spectra 8755-2930 1944-8201 02 2023 39 1 Gerald Palomino Romani Department of Civil Engineering University of British Columbia Vancouver BC Canada Kristen Blowes Department of Civil Engineering University of British Columbia Vancouver BC Canada https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7011-2572 Carlos Molina Hutt Department of Civil Engineering University of British Columbia Vancouver BC Canada https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2116-1201 Past earthquakes have illustrated the impacts of reduced hospital functionality due to physical damage resulting in a health service deficit immediately after a major seismic event. In this article, a methodology was developed to quantify the deficit in health care anticipated due to a loss of functionality of a hospital emergency department (ED) and a surge in demand due to regional damage in an earthquake scenario. Earthquake‐induced patient arrivals were calculated using multi‐severity casualty estimation for the catchment area of the hospital. The surge in patients (demand) was then compared to the ability of the hospital to treat patients (capacity) based on anticipated functionality. Nonlinear response history analysis of the hospital building was performed using simplified structural models, and the structural and non‐structural component damage was estimated based on FEMA P‐58. Expected damage was linked to the post‐earthquake functionality of the ED service areas on each floor by incorporating the fault‐tree analysis method. Finally, discrete event simulation was used to evaluate the ED surge capacity, providing hospital performance metrics, such as wait times (WTs) and length of stay (LOS) for patients of ranging acuity. A case study of a hospital in the City of Vancouver subjected to an M w 9.0 Cascadia Subduction Zone scenario earthquake was presented. Emergency rooms (ERs) were identified as the ED bottleneck during the emergency response. The mean ER WT exceeded its limit of 2 h and reached up to 17 h in the most unfavorable simulation. Likewise, the mean LOS nearly doubled from 6.5 to 12 h, also exceeding the established target of 10 h. 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