H To The ICS Role
This role manages media and public information during an incident.
Who is the Public Information Officer?
This TJC-required plan outlines how the hospital will respond to emergencies and disasters.
What is the Emergency Operations Plan (EOP)?
In a Critical Access Hospital, this position often serves as the initial Incident Commander after hours.
Who is the House Supervisor or Administrator on Call?
This plan is a specialized, all-hazards, and strategy driven document that outlines how the facility will maintain its minimum essential functions (e.g., emergency care, inpatient care) during, through, and after a disaster or emergency.
What is the Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP)?
When patient volume exceeds normal capacity, this strategy creates additional treatment space.
What is surge capacity?
This position is responsible for overall incident management and objectives.
Who is the Incident Commander?
TJC requires hospitals to conduct this minimum number of emergency management exercises each year.
What is two exercises annually?
This hospital-based incident management structure aligns with NIMS and is used during emergencies.
What is HICS (Hospital Incident Command System)?
This COOP concept identifies who can make decisions during an emergency.
What is Delegation of Authority?
This agreement with other organizations helps ensure access to resources when local supplies are exhausted.
What is a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)?
This section provides supplies, staffing support, and facility needs.
What is the Logistics Section?
This TJC process evaluates exercises or real events and identifies corrective actions for improvement.
What is an After-Action Report (AAR) and Improvement Plan?
This national system provides a standardized approach to incident management across all disciplines and jurisdictions.
What is the National Incident Management System (NIMS)?
These staff positions are identified to maintain critical operations during an incident.
What are essential personnel?
This regional coordination center helps distribute patients and resources during large-scale incidents.
What is the RHCC?
This section tracks resources, develops the Incident Action Plan, and maintains situational awareness.
What is the Planning Section?
This TJC analysis is completed annually to identify and prioritize the facility’s highest-risk hazards.
What is the Hazard Vulnerability Analysis (HVA)?
This NIMS concept allows hospitals, EMS, fire, law enforcement, and emergency management to work together under shared objectives.
What is Unified Command?
This COOP activity ensures critical documents and systems are accessible during downtime.
What is data backup or redundant systems?
This planning concept assumes the hospital must operate independently for up to four days without outside assistance.
What is the 96-Hour Sustainability Plan?
This HICS section is responsible for patient care, security, and clinical operations.
What is the Operations Section?
The development of the Emergency Management chapter standards follows the four phases of EM.
What is Preparedness, Response, Recovery, and Mitigation?
This NIMS concept limits the number of people a supervisor should manage to maintain effective control.
What is Span of Control?
This COOP priority focuses on maintaining patient care even when normal operations are disrupted.
What is continuity of patient care?
This Emergency Management phase focuses on sustaining operations and stabilizing the organization when outside assistance is delayed or unavailable.
What is Response?