CMS Regulations
The Emergency Preparedness Rule requirements apply to this number of provider and supplier types
What is 17?
This amount of water is the best practice standard for water storage needed per person for emergency drinking water and food prep.
What is 1 gallon per person, per day?
This is the typical range of months canned food can be kept on the shelf before being rotated out.
What is 6 - 12 months?
Staff should receive emergency preparedness training with at least this frequency.
What is annually?
This is the range of days a facility needs to maintain sufficient supplies and equipment to sustain operations and deliver care and services.
What is 3-10 days?
Besides food preparation and hydration or drinking, water is needed for these additional activities during an emergency.
What are personal sanitation and nursing procedures?
This document identifies vendors who will help you in an emergency situation.
What is the Memorandum of Understanding, or MOU?
CMS requires staff to be prepared to provide services -- including food -- during these two scenarios.
What are shelter in place and evacuate?
Besides food, CMS requires you have these three things in the facility's emergency supplies.
What are water, medical supplies, and pharmaceuticals?
You can live up to 3 weeks without food, 3 days without water and 3 minutes without oxygen. This phenomena is often called ___________.
What is the rule of three?
The definition of "surge".
What is "Individuals from the community who come to the facility for shelter or to volunteer during an emergency"?
This is a major bottle neck in disaster planning that many communities face during an emergency whether they are prepared or not.
What is effective communication?