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Sharing a Common Operating Picture

Sharing a Common Operating Picture. Objectives. Know your potential partners and their resources Understand health care planner needs for advance planning and exercising patient movement Understand potential sources of patients/patient transportation

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Sharing a Common Operating Picture

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  1. Sharing a Common Operating Picture

  2. Objectives • Know your potential partners and their resources • Understand health care planner needs for advance planning and exercising patient movement • Understand potential sources of patients/patient transportation • Understand Cross Border efforts and accomplishments • http://www.spokanecounty.org/video/vod.aspx?v=/emergencymgmt/megaquake.flv&deptid=62 • http://earthalerts.manyjourneys.com/web/

  3. Your Potential Partners and Resources All Disciplines within: • County • Region • State • Tribal • Cross border

  4. Planning and Exercising • Local EMS, EM, DSHS, OSPI, Tribal • EMS and Auxiliary Facts and Matrices • Regional • Region 1 Coalition • Puget Sound Emergency Triage and Prehospital Treat (PETT) • Cross Border – British Columbia http://www.pnwbha.org • British Columbia Ambulance Service (BCAS)

  5. Potential Sources of Patients • EMS and Auxiliary Transport Facts and Matrices • Self Present • Communications: who, what, and how

  6. Next Steps • Communicate this information to your partners • Update your capabilities with DOH: Mike.smith@doh.wa.gov • New ideas and resources

  7. DOH Cross-Border Efforts • Develop Relationships • Understand Capabilities • Licensing Issues • “The Border” • The Future

  8. Develop Relationships • Annual Cross-Border Conference • Job Exchange • Regular Conference Calls • Planning • Real Incident • Exercising together

  9. Understand Capabilities • Different Systems • Medical Assets • FMS/SNS/etc… • MMU/NESS/etc… • How to get the assets

  10. Licensing Issues • Different Systems • Who does licensing • How to approve Licenses/Certifications • BC Bill 43 • Will hospitals accept credentials

  11. “The Border” • Working with Border Agencies • Communications • Process for moving; • People • Things

  12. The Future • Decreasing Funding • Needs to be a part of normal business • Beyond the Border Initiative

  13. CONTACTS • Michael L. Smithmike.smith@doh.wa.gov • Dan Banks dan.banks@doh.wa.gov

  14. Thank You “A kind and understanding attempt at positive communications goes a long way to goal accomplishment”

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