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Video: Run, Hide, Fight - Surviving an Active Shooter Event, by the US Department of Homeland Security and the City of Houston |
The “Run, Hide, Fight” video was developed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security with the City of Houston, TX. It offers helpful advice on how to survive an encounter with an “active shooter.” |
Incident Response, Recommendations & Guidance, Training Resources |
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Video: Options for Consideration Active Shooter Preparedness Video, US Department of Homeland Security |
This video created by the US Department of Homeland Security demonstrates possible actions to take if confronted with an active shooter scenario. The video also shows how to assist authorities once law enforcement enters the scene. |
Incident Response, Recommendations & Guidance, Training Resources |
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Video: Healthcare Active Shooter Training Video |
This healthcare active shooter training video was produced by the MESH Coalition, a non-profit, public-private healthcare preparedness coalition located in Marion County, Indiana (Indianapolis). The video setting is a hospital. |
Training Resources |
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Tabletop Exercise Situation Manual: Mid Summers NightMARES |
This resource from the New Jersey Health Care Association is a situation manual for a hurricane-related event impacting LTC facilities. Though not a Florida-specific exercise, the injects used and questions posed are valuable examples for any state vulnerable to hurricanes. |
Preparedness Exercise |
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Safe Evacuation Tabletop Exercise for Long Term Care Facilities (California) |
This guidebook will help Long Term Care facilities (LTC) evaluate their preparedness for an evacuation. This guidebook contains all the materials necessary to conduct a simulated evacuation using a tabletop exercise. No actual patient movement is involved. |
Checklist, Evacuation Planning, Preparedness Exercise, Recommendations & Guidance, Sample Templates & Toolkits, Training Resources |
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Psychological First Aid - Field Operations Guide for Nursing Homes (Second Edition) |
Psychological First Aid - Field Operations Guide for Nursing Homes (Second Edition). |
Training Resources |
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Project ESCAPE Exercise Plan |
The Project ESCAPE “Evaluate Surge Capacity and Prioritized Evacuation” exercise is designed to establish a learning environment for players to exercise emergency response plans, policies, and procedures as they pertain to an evacuation of a long term care facility and the medical surge of an acute care facility.
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Preparedness Exercise |
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Project ESCAPE After Action Report and Improvement Plan (Final) |
The Project ESCAPE full scale exercise was designed to test and evaluate evacuation and medical surge capabilities within two healthcare facilities including LTC and acute care. This resource is the After Action Report and Improvement Plan for the exercise. |
Preparedness Exercise |
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Preparedness and Emergency Response Learning Centers - National Resource List |
CDC provides funding for 14 Preparedness and Emergency Response Learning Centers (PERLCs) across the U.S. These centers provide training to state, local, and tribal public health authorities within self-defined service areas and meet partners' unique workforce development needs in the area of public health preparedness and response; specialized training, education, and consultation. This CDC webpage provides links to each center. Many PERLCs have resources for long term care facilities. |
Research, Training Resources |
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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. |
Incident Response, Recommendations & Guidance, Sample Templates & Toolkits, Training Resources |
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Medicare Learning Network |
This is a link to the Medicare Learning Network, where notices of National Calls and Webinars are listed as well as recordings of past national calls and webinars. A search tool provides a quick way to find Emergency Preparedness events, past, current and future. |
Recommendations & Guidance, Regulations and Mandates, Training Resources |
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LTC Shots Fired TTX Exercise |
The LTC Shots Fired tabletop exercise (TTX) wa developed by the New Jersey Health Care Association to test the capabilities of long term care facilities, including skilled nursing and assisted living facilities to respond to an Active Shooter event within their operations. The design and execution of the exercise followed HSEEP requirements. This document is the LTC Shots Fired TTX After Action Report / Improvement Plan and includes the exercise design as well as after action report information. |
Incident Response, Preparedness Exercise, Training Resources |
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Hospital Preparedness Program Information Sharing Webinars |
The Florida Department of Health's Information-Sharing Webinars focus on new information, experiences, and best practices between Florida's health care system partners. This webpage contains information on upcoming webinars as well as recordings, slides, and supporting documents from past department's information sharing series. Past topics include fatality management and Ham radio operators. |
Training Resources |
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Health Care Provider After Action Report Improvement Plan |
This resource is an After Action Report Improvement Plan template and instructions, provided by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid. It is intended to be a user-friendly tool for healthcare providers to document their performance during emergency planning exercises and real emergency events. It is modeled after the US Department of Homeland Security's HSEEP program (Homeland Security Exercise & Evaluation Program), Vol. III AAR/IP, February 2007. For more resources on evaluating exercises, visit the TRACIE website and search in the Topic Collection for EVALUATION PROGRAM for additional resources on this topic. |
Preparedness Exercise, Sample Templates & Toolkits, Training Resources |
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Florida Governor's Hurricane Conference Materials - 2016 |
This is a link to the website of the Governor's Hurricane Conference (Florida). Presentation slides and in some cases, session recordings, are available for downloading. Various sessions will be of interest to long term care providers.
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Reports & Articles, Training Resources |
