Home Health and Hospice Plan
During an emergency event, the mission of home health and hospice services is to maintain the primary level of services to its patients while providing potential surge capacity to support a hospital response or community healthcare needs (such as evacuee shelter operations).
The Home Health and Hospice Plan Annex is a planning document that augments the hospital’s existing Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) and incorporates the fundamental principles of all-hazards emergency management. It utilizes a tailored version of the Hospital Incident Command System (HICS) as the overall incident management structure and addresses the Joint Commission accreditation standards for home care related to emergency management requirements.
OVERVIEW
DETAILS
ADDITIONAL INFO
OVERVIEW
The hospital forms a cross-functional, multi-disciplinary planning team that can be actively engaged for the duration of the project. The Home Health and Hospice Plan Annex development process leverages a highly-collaborative planning model that is facilitated by DQE through a series of web-based conference calls and utilizes proprietary planning templates that focus on:
- Providing the best possible home care during any type of emergency/disaster
- Ensuring the emergency preparedness and safety of hospital staff and their clients
- Ensuring the continuity of critical operations
- Providing for timely alerts/notifications and dynamic EOP Home Care Support Annex activation
- Integrating outpatient services with the hospital, public health, and community emergency management initiatives
DETAILS
The Home Health and Hospice Plan Annex encompasses the four phases of emergency management and includes the following proprietary tools that will assist the management team in framing their emergency response:
-
Hazard Vulnerability Analysis (HVA) - Results of the HVA drive the organization’s planning process and training activities
-
Activation Matrix - Defines the framework for tiered activation of home care resources
-
Incident Management Team - Pre-identifies home care augmentation to the hospital’s incident command structure
-
PowerPoint™ Training Presentation - Assists the organization in implementing the Home Care Support Annex
-
Compliance Traceability Matrix - Crosswalks the Joint Commission emergency management requirements to the Annex