Loss of Community Support Plan
Loss of Community Support is a sustained disruption, failure, or loss of support from the local community affecting communications, resources and assets, staffing, utilities, safety and security, and/or clinical and clinical support activities lasting at least 96 hours.
The Loss of Community Support Plan Annex is a planning document that augments the hospital’s existing Emergency Operations Plan and incorporates the fundamental principles of all-hazards emergency management. The Loss of Community Support Plan Annex provides a framework to sustain hospital functions during the initial 96-hour period following an event which significantly interrupts normal community operations and support.
Strategies outlined in this annex will provide the hospital with options that promote institutional resiliency to withstand an event that disrupts community support for an extended period of time.
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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 Loss of Community Support 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 a proprietary planning template that focuses on:
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Providing continuity of patient care and the effective and efficient allocation of resources
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Conserving and protecting available resources
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Prioritizing and allocating scarce resources
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Supplementing available resources and staff from nontraditional sources
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Ensuring the safety of staff, patients, and building occupants
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Resuming normal operations when an effective environment of care can be re-established
DETAILS
The Hospital Loss of Community Support Plan Annex addresses:
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Mitigation measures, preparedness activities, response actions, and recovery strategies
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Plan Activation Criteria and Concept of Operations that includes: conserving resources, curtailing services, altering standards of care, supplementing resources and evacuating the hospital
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Strategies and decision flowcharts for managing the following: communication, resource and assets, safety and security, staff responsibilities, utilities management, and patient clinical and support activities
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Planning tools for the development and identification of department-specific, mission essential functions