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Colorado Hospital Association FOLLOW UP FORUM #1. SUMMIT HIGHLIGHTS AND REVIEW. Sample Representation of Participant Concerns and Discussions from the Mass Fatality Planning Summit May 24 – 26 2010. Based on Colorado Regions and 95% Estimate of Reliability – 2800 data entries.
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Colorado Hospital Association FOLLOW UP FORUM #1 SUMMIT HIGHLIGHTS AND REVIEW
Sample Representation of Participant Concerns and Discussions from the Mass Fatality Planning SummitMay 24 – 26 2010 Based on Colorado Regions and 95% Estimate of Reliability – 2800 data entries
Lessons Learned • Importance of understanding the need for a plan for a Mass Fatality event in the hospital • Roles and Responsibilities of the Coroners Office • What resources the local emergency management agency can provide the hospital • Importance of assuring that the hospital plan collaborates with the local community plan • The general statues that have to be followed during a Mass Fatality event • Victim accountability is very important and not so easy; more thought is needed • More MOU’s are needed and the ones in place need to be reviewed • Checklist’s are needed to supplement any plan • The importance of face to face collaboration with community partners and other hospitals was a common theme during the summit
Summary • Most concerns demonstrated a need to coordinate Mass Fatality Plans with community partners on the local and state level • Many concerns suggested that activation of plans are not well understood which is expected sense this is related to coordinating response • Knowledge of incident leadership and transition of authority in this scenario is an example • Many concerns identified problems with initial response, on-scene assessment of incident severity and transition into fatality management • All regions were limited to discussing preplanning, plan activation, on-scene operations and morgue operations • Concerns were heavily skewed toward some activities suggesting limited awareness of long-term and recovery issues • Participants are recommended to focus on completion of coordinated plans, practice implementing plans in coordinated response framework and target long-term issues as potential vulnerabilities
Closing Follow Up Forum #2 is June 10, 2010 at 9:00 MDT