Emergency Plans | Hospital Incident Command System (HICS) | Emergency Communications | Program Management | EM Essentials |
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What is the Emergency Operations Plan (EOP)?
This document is the Base Plan for the EM Program.
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Who is the Planning Section Chief?
This Section Chief oversees the Documentation Unit Leader, if activated.
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What is a Code Yellow?
This hospital emergency code can be used to describe a utility failure, mass casualty incident, as well as a variety of other emergencies.
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What is the Emergency Management Committee?
This is the multi-disciplinary Committee that reviews and manages non-clinical emergency code procedures, reviews AARs, updates emergency plans, and analyzes hospital risks and hazards.
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What is 2?
This is the number of exercises the hospital is required to conduct each year.
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What are the Emergency Code SOPs?
These Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) describe how to respond to a variety of non-clinical codes.
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What is the Incident Action Plan (IAP)?
This Plan, written by the Planning Section, captures the situation summary, objectives, and organizational structure for each disaster operational period/shift.
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What is Everbridge?
Also referred to as the "Cleveland Clinic Alert Service," this is the name of the enterprise vendor used for emergency communications via text, e-mail, cell, and desktop scrolling notifications.
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What is 96-hours (4 days)?
The Joint Commission and CMS recommends that we plan to be without external assistance during an emergency for at least this amount of time.
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What is a Safety Data Sheet (SDS)?
This document describes safety hazards and basic first aid measures for chemicals stored within or used within the hospital.
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What is the Mass Casualty Incident (MCI) Plan?
This document discusses roles and responsibilities with respect to managing a surge of patients, and can be found on the AGMC EM department intranet webpage.
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What is the Incident Management Team (IMT)?
This is the name for the team that helps to coordinate resources and information following a disaster.
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What is True?
True or False... If one has NOT been issued a Cleveland Clinic mobile device, one can still receive emergency communication texts on their personal device.
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What is the Committee Charter?
This document establishes voting membership, ad-hoc membership, goals, and a purpose for the Committee responsible for managing the EM Program.
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What is the Hospital Incident Command System (HICS)?
This is the management system that is used in the Hospital Command Center to organize personnel and make objective decisions.
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What are Downtime Plans/Procedures?
These Plans focus on capabilities and procedures following a network outage.
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What is the Incident Commander (IC)?
This is the sole position that must be activated/identified to manage an incident, and is in charge of setting the objectives for each operational period/shift.
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What is the Department of Corporate Communications?
During an emergency, this is the department that manages external agency communications and media-interfacing.
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What is "All-Hazards" planning?
This hyphenated term is used to describe the type of planning conducted by the Emergency Management Program and Team. Hint: This is national terminology.
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What is a Hazard Vulnerability Assessment/Analysis (HVA)?
This planning tool is updated annually to identify and assess hazards that may impact Cleveland Clinic Akron General. This information is useful for emergency planning, education, and training purposes.
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What is the Point of Dispensing (POD) Plan?
This Plan describes how and where to distribute a large amount of medications following a regional or national disaster.
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What is the Hospital Command Center (HCC)?
This is the name of the physical space in which information and resources are coordinated during a large-scale exercise, planned event, or emergency.
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What is the posted Emergency Code Posters?
This is the location I can find basic emergency code information during a network outage.
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What is Communications, Resources/Equipment, Utilities, Safety/Security, Personnel/Staffing, and Patient Clinical and Support Activities?
Name 3 of the 6 focus areas for required emergency planning in the EOP by The Joint Commission.
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What are 1135 waivers, including: Conditions of participation, preapproval requirements, EMTALA (emergency medical treatment), state-specific physician licensing requirements?
Following a National Stafford Act emergency declaration by the President, under section 1135 of the Social Security Act, the HHS Secretary may temporarily waive or modify certain Medicare/Medicaid requirements, such as these.
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