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Evacuation Plan Development Tool Kit - Colorado |
This website of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment provides several downloadable tools for providers. Included is an Evacuation Decision Tree and a tool for rating residents’ evacuation capabilities. |
Planning and Response |
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Facility to Facility Memorandum of Understanding: Outline of Key Elements |
This document provides an outline to guide nursing home and assisted living facility providers in establishing Memorandums of Understanding with other providers in the event of resident transfer during a local or widespread emergency. |
Planning and Response |
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FHCA Emergency Management Guide for Nursing Homes (2008) |
The EM Guide for Nursing Homes was developed in 2008 through a grant funded by the John A. Hartford Foundation to the Florida Health Care Association. Development of the Guide was done in partnership with the Florida Department of Health Bureau of Preparedness and Response. The 265-page guide includes five sections, including the basic emergency operations plan elements, sample appendices, explanation of hazard types, incident command, and training. |
Training and Exercise |
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Florida Environmental Control Rules (Emergency Power Rules) for Nursing Homes and Assisted Living Facilities |
Information and resources regarding the Florida Emergency Environmental Control rule for Nursing Homes and Assisted Living Facilities. Included: links to each rule (59A-4.1265 - for Nursing Homes, and 58A-5.036 for Assisted Living Facilities). |
Planning and Response |
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Florida Environmental Control Rules (Emergency Power Rules) for Nursing Homes and Assisted Living Facilities |
Information and resources regarding the Florida Emergency Environmental Control rule for Nursing Homes and Assisted Living Facilities. Included: links to each rule (59A-4.1265 - for Nursing Homes, and 58A-5.036 for Assisted Living Facilities); sample Emergency Power Plan formats; other sample tools. |
Planning and Response |
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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. |
Training and Exercise |
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Healthcare COOP and Recovery Planning |
This document describes the concepts, principles, templates and resources available to assist non-federal healthcare entities to align their planning methodologies with current federal continuity and recovery framework guidelines. Healthcare organizations can copy and paste needed planning information captured from this document into their own proprietary Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP) or Recovery plan. This document can be used as a research tool for collaborative planning efforts with other preparedness partners. This document is a collection of resources, ideas, templates and references and hyperlinks to additional information relating to Healthcare Continuity of Operations (COOP) and Healthcare Disaster Recovery. It may be used to develop plans, checklists, concepts of operations and other documents and tools related to Healthcare COOP and Recovery planning. |
Planning and Response |
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Incident Planning Guide: Utility Failure |
Developed by the California Emergency Medical Services Authority for hospitals, this Incident Planning Guide for Utility Failures is a useful tool for nursing homes as well as hospitals. The Guide is intended to address issues associated with a utility failure in hospital systems such as power, water, heating, ventilation, air conditioning, medical air, vacuum, or medical gases. Hospitals may customize this Incident Planning Guide for their specific requirements. |
Disaster Recovery |
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Incident Response Guide - Utility Failure |
This tool, Incident Response Guide - Utility Failure, is available on the California Association of Healthcare Facilities Emergency Preparedness Program website. |
Planning and Response |
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Incorporating Active Shooter Incident Planning into Health Care Facility Emergency Operations Plans |
Health care settings represent a very unique set of challenges for active shooter planning and workplace violence. This document is primarily designed to encourage health care facilities (HCFs) to consider how to better prepare for an active shooter incident. Though hospitals and many other HCFs have emergency operations plans (EOPs), this document provides emergency planners, disaster committees, executive leadership, and others involved in emergency operations planning with detailed discussions of unique issues faced in an HCF. This document also includes discussions on related topics, including information sharing, psychological first aid (PFA), and law enforcement/security. |
Planning and Response |
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Letter to Families/Reps to Inform of Emergency Plans (template) |
This resource from the California Association of Health Facilities provides a same one-page letter to families/representatives to advise of the facility's emergency plans. |
Planning and Response |
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Long Term Care Facility Evacuation Resident Assessment Form for Transport and Destination |
This page on the California Association of Healthcare Facilities is dedicated to evacuation planning resources and tools. Included is an Incident Response Guide for Evacuation. |
Planning and Response |
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Mass Fatality Planning - Managing Remains in Disasters |
This document is a sample policy/procedure available from the California Association of Health Facilities' Disaster Program. |
Planning and Response |
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Minnesota Long Term Care Preparedness Toolkit |
Developed for LTC providers in Minnesota, this toolkit can be used by facility owners, administrators, and staff. Information includes: sample templates, forms and suggested resources to develop and/or enhance facility emergency preparedness plans within LTC throughout the state of Minnesota. It should not be viewed as a static document but one that provides a foundation for an All Hazards approach to preparedness, planning, and response activities. While the tool was developed for Minnesota providers, the information provided may serve as a general guide for use by readers in other states. |
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. |
Training and Exercise |
