The "I"'s Have It
Measuring Up
Oh Say Can You "C"
What Time It Is?
Crazy About Coalitions
100
This reference document is designed to clarify ambuiquities in the meaning of performance measures or their data elements.
What is the "Implementation Guidance"?
100
The staffed bed capacity of the hospital or other ‘inpatient” HCO providers during peak operation as calculated for an accrediting organization.
What is "maximum patient capacity"?
100
Awardees should collect all data element at this level or unit of analysis.
What is coalition level?
100
The timeline for achieving the performance measures.
What is 5-year grant period?
100
Public health institutions, hospitals, emergency management, and coroners to name a few.
What are essential partners?
200
This capability features data elements involving EEIs.
What is Information Sharing?
200
This concept means that the entire set of data elements must have positive responses to have achieved the performance measure.
What is All or Nothing?
200
A description of how personnel, equipment, and other governmental, non-governmental, and private resources will support the sustainment and/or reestablishment of essential function, this plan is featured within data elements for Healthcare Recovery.
What is continuity of operations (COOP)?
200
The HPP FOA requires that all hospitals and healthcare coalitions participate in at least one regional or statewide exercise over this time period.
What is the 5- year grant cycle?
200
Exercises should consider this systematic approach to recognizing hazards that may affect demand for services or the ability to provide those services.
What is hazard vulnerability assessment (HVA)?
300
This is the concept where coalition partners provide an appropriate level of care to patientes during declared disasters, by avaiing 20% of staff beds to higher acuity patients.
What is immediate bed availability?
300
Defined by Merriam Webster as strong desire, longing, or aim and the act of breathing. This term also describes the scope of the new performance measures.
What is aspiratory?
300
This new area of planning emphasis considers the level of care possible during a disaster due to limitations in supplies, staff, environment, or other factors.
What is Crisis Standards of Care?
300
Acccording to the HPP Performance Measure Manual "Implementation Guidance" the length of time that denotes "immediate" in immediate bed availability.
What is within 4 hours?
300
To participate in exercises, the healthcare does not have to be a lead organizer, but must participate in this role?
What is as an operational entity?
400
The second edition of the Medical Surge Capacity and Capability (MSCC) provides a guidance on how coalitions can be integrated into this.
What is the Incident Command Structure (ICS)?
400
This category or adjective indicates that the respondent has met the objectives specified in the exercise?
What is "successfully implemented/exercised"
400
What are the three C's highlighted in the data collection process?
What is Collection, Collaboration, Calculation?
400
The measure refers to the data and time that the last requested volunteer arrives at a staging area or on scene, but no later than the requested timeframe.
What is stop time?
400
This must be assigned to all corrective actions.
What is target completion date.
500
To be defined as this, at minimum, healthcare coalition emergency management and public health members must be active and engaged and regularly represented by primary decision makers from each emergency management agency and local health department respectively.
What are integral partners?
500
If there is no event or exercise, this score must be given.
What is "5"?
500
Medical Surge as redefined in the HPP Performance Measurement Manual consist of three concepts to include: diversion, decompresssion and _________.
What is capability and capacity building?
500
Based on the hazard vulnerability assessment (HVA), this is the timeframe a healthcare coalition (HCC) must have implemented an occupational safety and health plan to protect employees of the organization with the HCC and their families.
What within the last 3 years?
500
Coalitions that achieved its established exercise participation goals for its member organizations included these six entities/criteria.
What is 100% of hospital, 1 long term care, 1 EMS agency, 1 community health center, 1 local public health department, 1 decision making representative.