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Health Care Significant Snow Event

Health Care Significant Snow Event.

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Health Care Significant Snow Event

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  1. Health CareSignificant Snow Event

  2. Winter weather has the ability to knock out heat, power and communication services to your home, and facility, sometimes for days at a time. Heavy snowfall and extreme cold can immobilize an entire region. To be able to support your community and respond to your health care facility you and your staff need to be prepared at home and for the road.

  3. Facility Preparedness • Verify all necessary vendor emergency phone numbers are accurate • Housing/dependent care considerations • Patient surge: equipment & supplies • Hard copy of current staff phone list with estimated time of arrival (with consideration of their responsibilities at home)

  4. 96 Hour Capabilities Analysis The analysis is based on our average daily census ( ? ), average daily temperature ( ?? F ), and with instituting use reduction/substitution protocols where feasible. S A M P L E

  5. Facility Response • Incident Command System implemented • HICS 251: Facility Systems Status Report • (www.emsa.ca.gov/HICS/files/hics251.pdf) • Monitor weather reports • Review outage operations with staff in person and via email, especially when the building should go to emergency power. • Web postings

  6. Communicate with supervisor • Check equipment / supplies • Check staffing levels • Assess electives/admits/discharge capacity • Traffic control / snow removal • Transport for staff/patients/ • equipment

  7. The following slides are an index that will assist shelters and alternate care facililities in determining if a citizen requires more acute care and needs to be transferred to a hospital.

  8. SHELTERED CITIZEN INDEXUse to determine if a person may need a higher level of care.

  9. Scoring: 0 – 12 Low potential for relocation 6 – 18 Moderate potential for relocation 18 – 48 Relocate to health care facility

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