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Cybersecurity for Healthcare Facilities |
This resource is a link to the Cybersecurity Topics Collection in the Technical Resources Assistance Center and Information Exchange (TRACIE). Recent cyber attacks on healthcare facilities have had significant effects on every aspect of patient care and organizational continuity. They highlight the need for healthcare organizations of all sizes and types to implement cybersecurity best practices and conduct robust planning and exercising for cyber incident response and consequence management. |
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Video: Cybersecurity and Healthcare Facilities |
Cybersecurity is a critical issue facing healthcare facilities. In this video webinar, a distinguished panel of experts describe lessons learned from recent experiences, planning considerations, and steps the federal government is taking to address cybersecurity and cyber hygiene. Length: 33 minutes. |
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Planning for Water Supply Interruptions: A Guide for Hospitals and Healthcare Facilities |
This information sheet highlights some of the impacts of a water interruption and poses questions to ask to help prepare for an interruption. Additionally, it provides some information on existing resources that can help to develop and implement a preparedness strategy.
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Sample Policy for Emergent Infectious Diseases for Skilled Nursing Care Centers |
To provide guidance to long term and post-acute care providers on how to prepare for infectious diseases that have the potential to pose a significant public health threat to the residents, families and staff of the skilled nursing care center.
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Shelter in Place: Planning Resource Guide for Nursing Homes |
This guide provides examples, references, and comparisons to what a care center has already built into its existing Emergency Management Program.
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Protecting the Healthcare Digital Infrastructure: Cybersecurity Checklist |
The computer networks, databases, and wireless systems that make up the digital infrastructure within healthcare organization are unfortunately prone to attack. This resource provides a checklist of considerations and strategies that organizations should consider and implement to protect their digital infrastructure.
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Working Without Technology: How Hospitals and Healthcare Organizations Can Manage Communication Failure |
This document outlines recommendations and steps that a healthcare organization and/or facility cab take to alleviate issues associated with a breakdown in traditional forms of communication.
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Planning and Response |
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CMS Emergency Planning Checklist: Recommended Tool for Persons in Long Term Care Facilities, Ombudsmen, and others |
This CMS document is an emergency planning checklist and recommended tool for persons in long term care facilities and their family, friends, personal caregivers, guardians and LTC ombudsmen.
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Long Term Care and Other Residential Facilities: Pandemic Influenza Planning Checklist |
This CDC checklist helps long-term care and other residential facilities self-assess the strengths and weaknesses of their plans for responding to pandemic influenza. This tool also provides links to websites with helpful information.
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Planning and Response |
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Pandemic Influenza Workbook for Long Term Care Providers |
This workbook provides guidance to long term providers on what actions to take to protect the health and safety of the staff and residents in their facilities in the event of a pandemic influenza outbreak. The document explains why long term care providers need to prepare for a pandemic, what they need to do to be prepared, and how they can go about making preparations.
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OIG Report (2012) Gaps Continue To Exist in Nursing Home Emergency Preparedness and Response During Disasters: 2007-2010 |
This is a report by OIG of its study conducted to assess emergency preparedness and response of nursing homes that experienced disasters from 2007-2010. The OIG's first report on this topic was in 2006.
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Planning and Response |
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NHICS: Nursing Home Incident Command System |
This resource, updated in 2017 by the California Association of Healthcare Facilities, provides a guide and extensive supporting documents and tools associated with the Nursing Home Incident Command System (NHICS), which can be used by facilities regardless of size or resident care capabilities, to assist with emergency planning and response efforts for all hazards. |
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Caring for Vulnerable Elders During a Disaster: National Findings of the 2007 Nursing Home Hurricane Summit |
This report of the 2007 Nursing Home Hurricane Summit outlines the discussion and resulting recommendations of 65 delegates from coastal hurricane states, representing a diverse spectrum of stakeholders. Delegates included nursing home representatives, emergency management, public health, medicine, transportation, federal (CMS), energy, and others. Topics discussed: Nursing Home Disaster Plans; Evacuation Decision Making; Inter-agency Relationships (Coordination, Cooperation and Collaboration); Communication; Technology and Use of Data; Transportation; Regulatory Issues; Power Restoration; Training and Drills; and Ethical Concerns. The Summit was funded jointly by the John A. Hartford Foundation and the Florida Health Care Association as part of a two-year project. |
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Caring for Elders During Disasters Continuum of Care Model: A Guide for Community-Based Planning |
This guide is the product of an ASPR-funded project to develop a model, information and resources to guide and support local communities in their efforts to develop and sustain a continuum of care for elders during disasters. This document, along with the Step-by-Step Companion Toolkit available as a separate PDF, provide a comprehensive guide to communities for engaging elder care stakeholders in the preparedness, response, and recovery cycles of all-hazards disaster management. The guide includes links to additional resources, and is one of five resources in the Continuum of Care Model. |
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Webinar Recording - Continuity of Operations and Business Continuity Planning for Long Term Care Facilities |
This 45-minute webinar recording on Continuity of Operations Planning for Long Term Care is available on the website of the California Association of Health Facilities. |
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