Preparedness
Response
Recovery
Exercises/Training
Medical Surge
100
What are the agencies HCC must include at a minimum in their coalitions?
Hospitals (minimum 2 acute care hospitals), EMS, Emergency Management, and public health organizations
100
1. Share situational awareness across the health care and public health systems... 2. Share emergency information and warnings across disciplines, jurisdictions, and HCCs and their members... 3. Conduct external communication with the public.
What are the three Activities for Strengthening Information Management?
100
Which plan is due in Budget Period 2?
What is the Recovery Plan.
100
In order to obtain buy-in across all health care facility, the HCC must engage which members in all debriefs ("hot washes") related to exercises, planned events, and real incidents?
What is health care executives
100
True or False: IBA should be ensured only over the first two project periods?
What is FALSE-it should be ensured over the entire 5 year project period.
200
By when does each HCC need to develop and submit a Preparedness Plan?
What is BP1 (p.17)
200
HCCs must define essential elements of information to be shared in an emergency. EEIs should include, at a minimum, which three elements?
What are elements of electronic medical records, resources needs, availability of resources (p. 27)
200
How often will HCCs drill their redundant communications plan? (hint, this may be in your work plan)
What is 6 months
200
How many coalition surge tests are required during the 5 year grant period?
What is 1 per year (p.50)
200
True or False: HCCs are no longer allowed to purchase pharmaceuticals and other medical material.
FALSE-purchases are allowed if they assist with patient surge.
300
Who needs to approve the HCC Preparedness Plan?
What are all core HCC members? (p. 17)
300
Name two pieces of information that you would need to provide to gain a common operating picture during a response?
What is situational awareness data, bed availability, inter-coalition communication, EEIs, etc.
300
Which required coalition plan must include the following elements: Multiple points of contact for each HCC member and strategies and priorities for addressing disruptions to mission critical systems that include but not limited to electricity, water, and medical gases.
What is the HCC Continuity of Operations Plan (p.31)
300
List the 3 main organizations/agencies that are to be included in evacuation, transportation and relocation planning and execution during exercises and real incidents?
What is health care organizations, PH agencies, emergency management (p. 49)
300
Are telemedicine, assessment of screening centers, provision of medical care at shelters and selection and operation of ACS mandatory factors to be included in ACS planning?
NO, but we should consider them (p. 52)
400
What document identifies the potential hazards, vulnerabilities, and risks facing their jurisdictions?
What is Jurisdictional Risk Assessment? (p.18)
400
Name 3 HPP performance measures relating to response?
-What is Time [in minutes] for evacuating facilities in the HCC to report the total number of evacuating patients. -Time [in minutes] for receiving facilities in the HCC to report the total number of beds available to receive patients. -Time [in minutes] for the HCCs to identify an appropriate mode of transport for the last evacuating patient. Percent of patients at the evacuating facilities that are identified as able to be: a) discharged safely to home or b) evacuated to receiving facilities during Phase 1: Tabletop Exercise with Functional Elements (p.70)
400
Name of the 3 things that HPP awardees must ensure in regards to NIMS implementation?
What is -Ensure HCC leadership receives NIMS training based on evaluation of existing NIMS education levels and need. -Promote NIMS implementation among HCC members, including training and exercises, to facilitate operational coordination with public safety and emergency management organizations during an emergency using an incident command structure (ICS) -Assist HCC members with incorporating NIMS components into their emergency operations plans
400
Name two ways that HCCs can assist their members with NIMS implementation.
1) Ensure HCC leadership receives NIMS training based on evaluation of existing NIMS education levels and need. 2) Promote NIMS implementation among HCC members, including training and exercises, to facilitate operational coordination with public safety and emergency management organizations during an emergency using an incident command structure (ICS). 3) Assist HCC members with incorporating NIMS components into their emergency operations plans.
400
When must HCC conduct supply chain integrity assessments?
What is BP1, BP2, BP3, Bp4, BP5 (p.39)
500
Name at least 3 strategies or planning criteria needed to support HCCs to purchase PPEs.
What is document acquisition, storage, rotation, activation, use, and disposal decisions.
500
Name at least 5 elements that must be present in each HCC's response plan.
•Individual HCC member organization and HCC contact information, •Locations that may be used for multiagency coordination, •Process for multiagency coordination if location is virtual, •A brief summary of each individual member’s resources and responsibilities, •Integration with appropriate ESF-8 lead agencies, •Emergency activation thresholds and processes •Alert and notification procedures, •EEIs agreed to be shared, including information format, such as bed reporting, resource requests and allocation, and patient distribution, and tracking procedures, •Communication and IT platforms and redundancies for information sharing, •Support and mutual aid agreements, •Evacuation and relocation processes, •Additional HCC roles and responsibilities as determined by state or local plans and agreements such as staff sharing, alternate care sites, and shelter support, and •Activation and notification processes for initiating and implementing medical surge response coordination among HCC members.
500
Name the 5 things that the healthcare recovery plan must outline at a minimum?
What is 1) Goals and strategic priorities for the continued delivery of essential health care services, including behavioral health, and opportunities for improvement after an emergency 2) Flexible operational objectives and tactics to accommodate different recovery approaches, 3) Integration with pre-incident plans including community health improvement plans or organizational capital improvement plans, 4) Critical infrastructure dependencies regarding public utilities, IT, transportation, etc., and 5) Workforce retention issues essential to operations, including access to child or adult dependent care.
500
Name 4 key areas for exercise planning?
Key Areas for Exercise Planning: a. Annual Coalition Surge Test to assess overall health care system response, inclusive of all HCC hospitals: b. At least two HCC-level redundant communication drills annually to test the effectiveness of the systems and platforms (e.g., bed/resource tracking systems, amateur and commercial radio, satellite phones, etc.) c. Other HCC-level functional or full-scale HSEEP based exercises as able to test HPP Capabilities, Performance Measures and other identified HCC All-Hazards Plan gaps. d. Consider the access and functional needs of at-risk individuals and engage these populations in health care coalition-based exercises.
500
List 3 pillars that IBA is built on?
What is continuous monitoring, off-loading, on-loading (p.50)
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