Revised Emergency Preparedness Checklist for Health Care Facilities

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    Checklist are a vital part of the preparedness and planning portions of emergency planning.

CHECKLIST:   http://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Provider-Enrollment-and-Certification/SurveyCertificationGenInfo/Downloads/Survey-and-Cert-Letter-14-12.pdf

CMS REVISES EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS CHECKLIST

ASHE Insider: July 1, 2014

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has revised its emergency preparedness checklist, a tool it recommends for health care facility emergency planning. The updates, which CMS released in February in a Survey & Certification memo, give more detailed guidance about patient tracking, supplies, and collaboration.

The revisions add procedures to describe if a patient turns up missing during an emergency evacuation, including notification of the patient’s family and local law enforcement. The revised checklist also prompts emergency planners to determine whether staff can have their family members shelter at the facility.

A new section of the checklist states that health care facilities should tailor emergency planning templates to their specific needs and geographic location. The revised checklist also directs hospitals to establish collaborations with various types of health care providers at the state and local level to integrate plans and increase medical response capabilities.

Read the full memo to see all the changes to the checklist.

1 Revised Emergency Preparedness Checklist for Health Care Facilities The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has revised its emergency preparedness checklist, a tool it recommends for health care facility emergency planning.

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Preventing Suicide Among the TR Ranks

July 16, 2014

According to the Department of Veterans Affairs Suicide Data Report, 2012, “An estimated 22 veterans will have died from suicide each day in the calendar year 2010.” Extrapolate that, and you get over 8,000 veteran suicides annually, a number far too large to not act.

With those statistics in mind, Region 1 wrapped up June 2014 with a weekend-long Applied Suicide Interventions Skills Training (ASIST) where about 20 volunteers assembled in Farmington, CT. Organized by Clay Hunt Fellow Ryan Ginty, the class was taught by Region 6 Resource Manager Klebe Brumble, TR HQ Clinicial Specialist Dane Frost, and TR Program Operations Associate Amanda Burke.

Recognizing vets and first responders don’t necessarily enjoy sitting in a classroom for 12 hours, the training provided a combination of classroom time and practical exercises. Air Force veteran Lourdes Tiglao said, “The role playing portion drove the gravity and seriousness home for many of the participants as to how pervasive the feeling of isolation can be for persons at risk.”

While the ASIST model of intervening on a person at risk is meant to be a first responder style of suicide intervention to be used by anyone in any situation, TR hopes those trained on the ASIST model can aid our members in times of crisis.

“Team Rubicon plays a crucial role, not only in disaster response, but in veteran reintegration,” Tiglao said.

Region 2 Program Operations Manager Todd Adrian added, “The experience gained during the classroom training and role playing exercises improves my readiness and confidence in being able to respond to crisis situations, whether during deployments, within our region, or with friends and family.”

The training was made even more valuable by the bonds forged throughout the weekend. It provided our team with an opportunity to get to know each other in a capacity we typically don’t experience during deployments.

Adrian said, “In true TR fashion, members from different regions came together and shared personal experiences with suicide, practiced ASIST skills, and enjoyed camaraderie that transitioned a group of 20 strangers into friends over the course of a weekend.”