Emergency Management Planning

Have you ever stopped to think about the multitude of events – natural or man-made – that could affect a hospital’s functioning? Is your hospital prepared and ready to face any type of emergency?  Disaster planning is a unique entity; it requires hospitals to work with different people, solving different problems and using different resources and strategies than those for routine emergencies.  Simply having an emergency operations plan does not always equate to having a prepared institution.

DQE Emergency Management Planning services assist a hospital in building a dynamic and functional Emergency Operations Plan and supporting event-specific planning, such as: evacuation planning, medical surge planning, fatality management planning,  home health emergency planning, severe weather planning, loss of community support planning, hazardous spill planning, and hazardous material incident planning that fully incorporate the Hospital Incident Command System (HICS) and enhances compliance with national standards and hospital accreditation requirements (NIMS activities for hospitals and healthcare systems, ASPR, NFPA 99 and The Joint Commission).