Hospital Evacuation Plan
Evacuation is the process of moving patients from an at-risk location within a medical facility or campus to a safer holding area or alternate location within the hospital, another medical facility, or a non-medical facility converted for patient care.
The Hospital Evacuation Plan Support 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. This annex provides a concept of operations for evacuation functions, staff roles and responsibilities, and provides overall guidance to enable evacuation regardless of the hazard or incident type.
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 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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Preventing or minimizing the loss of life and injuries
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Ensuring patient, visitor and personnel safety
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Maintaining optimal patient care and life support functions during the evacuation process
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Integrating the hospital’s preparedness, response, and recovery efforts with those of its community and supporting entities
DETAILS
The Hospital Evacuation Plan Support Annex addresses:
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Mitigation measures, preparedness activities, response actions, and recovery strategies
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Hospital capabilities to establish response efforts when the environment can no longer support patient care, treatment, and services
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Strategies for managing the following during a hospital evacuation: communication, resources and assets, safety and security, staff responsibilities, utilities management, and patient clinical and support activities
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Patient movement requirements and strategies to include transportation planning, interagency coordination, and patient tracking
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HICS modifications to support hospital evacuation processes
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Procedures for:
- Plan activation and incident management
- Patient movement and coordination of flow
- Patient tracking and accountability
- Evacuation logistics
- Pharmaceutical management
- Discharge planning and receiving facility guidelines
- Communications
- Safety considerations and personal protective equipment
- Facility shutdown, recovery, resumption of clinical operations, and repatriation considerations