Surge preparedness
NIMS/HICS implementation
AHRQ preparedness resources
Regional links

New/featured on these pages

• Updated PIO references
• National guidance for HC preparedness
• NIMS hospital guidance for FY12
• Pediatric mass critical care recommendations
• Medical emergency preparedness for your patients
• Online chemical emergency medical management resources
• Emergency water-supply planning guide
• Nuclear preparedness
• Model hospital MOU for emergency preparedness
• Updated electronic mass casualty scenarios (EMCAPS)
• Medical aspects of radiation incidents
• Interim guidance for responding to terrorist bombings
• Data for hospital decision-making
• Hospital referral patterns in disasters
• Mandatory vaccination of HCW?
  • SHEA position paper
  • Policy to practice
• Earthquake impact on hospital functions - II
• Earthquake impact on hospital functions - I
• Framework for improving preparedness
• Healthcare preparedness for catastrophic health events
• Rural hospitals and regional disaster preparedness
• Planning tool for primary care offices
• Identifying and training critical hospital staff
• CMS: EMTALA disaster requirements and options
• Emergency legal preparedness
• Hospital PPE cost-effectiveness
• Effect of storage on N95 masks
• Respirator fit-testing: how well does it protect HCWs?
• Surgical safety checklist (good model for some disaster procedures...)
• Exercise documentation and management: meeting the standard?
• Disaster planning checklist for healthcare CFOs
• Post-disaster analysis of hospital response plans: lessons learned?
• HIPAA in disasters
• Critical tasks for initial incident assessment
• Is your hospital's pharmacy prepared?

NIMS and HICS implementation for hospitals

• NIMS hospital guidance for FY12 (12/9/11)
• Incident Command classes for hospitals and healthcare systems
• Hospital preparedness instruments and NIMS compliance
• NIMS FAQ and implementation guidance for hospitals (through 2008)
• NIMS Resource Center (FEMA)
• Updated NIMS document (link to 3.8-MB core document); summary of changes (12/18/08)
• IS-700.A - National Incident Management System
• IS-800.B - National Response Framework

Public health and medical job credentialing in NIMS
NIMS Alert (12/4/07)
Adopted titles and credentials (March 2008)

HICS materials available for a hospitals large and small
The California EMS Authority hosts resources for the recently revised Hospital Incident Command System (HICS). Materials include a guidebook and glossary, FAQs, teaching materials, implementation guidance and resources, and an e-mail address for questions. The online HICS Center has teaching materials and a variety of other resources; many require (free) site registration.

The Center for Biopreparedness Education (Creighton Univ. and Univ. of Nebraska Medical Ctrs) has adapted and posted HICS Job Action Sheets for Small and Rural Hospitals.
 

Public Information Officer reference list

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• Crisis standards of care guidelines (March 2012)
• Altering standard of care for disasters: unnecessary and dangerous? (September 2011)
• Benchmarking for surge capacity? (June 2011)
• Results of national ventilator survey (October 2010)
• Report from 2009 Medical Surge Capacity workshops (January 2010)
• Advisory Board triage and surge resources
• Extending and rationing pediatric care in public health emergencies (September 2009)
• CMS: EMTALA disaster requirements and options (August 2009)
• Escalating tiers for surge capacity (April 2009)
• "Reverse triage" to generate surge capacity (April 2009)
• Community health centers as preparedness resources (January 2009)
• Dwindling empty beds and surge capacity (December 2008)
• Alternative Medical Treatment Site exercise website - Florida (July 2008)
• GAO report on states' need for guidance on allocation of scarce medical resources (June 2008)
• Chest journal: Definitive Care for the Critically Ill During a Disaster (May 2008)
      Summary of suggestions
      Current capabilities and limitations
      Framework for optimizing critical care
      Medical resources or critical care surge capacity
      Allocating scarce resources
• Guidance for adapting standards of care under extreme conditions (March 2008)
• Allocation of ventilators in a public health disaster (March 2008)
• Mass medical care during a pandemic: guide and toolkits (May-December 2007)
• Ventilator allocation during large-scale disasters (June 2007)
• Hospital pharmacy preparedness (June 2007)
• Emergency credentialing concept (May 2007)
• Surge capacity in terrorist bombings (April 2007)
• Ventilator allocation during a pandemic (March 2007)
• Triage concepts, triage values (March 2007)
• The science of surge (November 2006)

From the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Archive
NOTE: If you are aware of ways in which AHRQ research, products, or tools are being used to influence policies, clinical practice, or affect patient outcomes, please contact jane.steele@ahrq.hhs.gov.

• Updated emergency preparedness resource inventory (May 2011)
• Data sources for at-risk community-dwelling population (March 2011)
• Home health patient assessment tools (March 2011)
• Hospital preparedness exercise resources (December 2010)
• Hospital assessment and recovery guide (May 2010)
• Hospital evacuation decision guide (May 2010)
• Preparedness webcasts
• Disaster alternate care facilities: report and interactive tools (October 2009)
• Disaster alternate care facility selection tool (September 2009)
• Pediatric preparedness resources for public health emergencies (March 2009)
• Interactive hospital surge model (September 2008)
• Focused preparedness tool for hospital exercises (August 2008)
• Home health care during a pandemic (July 2008)
• Becoming a high reliability organization (February 2008)

Contact TVF&R's Emergency Manager
Email: Jeff Rubin
Phone: (503) 259-1199