Emergency Preparedness Rules and Resources for Hospitals (including Long-term Acute Care Hospitals, Psychiatric Hospitals, Rehabilitation Hospitals, Critical Access Hospitals), Freestanding Emergency Departments, Birth Centers, Transplant Centers, and Organ Procurement Organizations.
Hospital (and Transplant Center) Requirements: CMS Emergency Preparedness Final Rule (Updated), updates effective March 26, 2021 This document combines excerpts from the Final Rule and the recently released Interpretive Guidelines from CMS to provide a consolidated overview document of requirements for Hospitals and Transplant Centers.(Accessed November 26, 2024.)
State emergency preparedness requirements for general hospitals, long-term acute care hospitals, and rehabilitation hospitals can be found in Chapter 4. State emergency preparedness requirements for psychiatric hospitals can be found in Chapter 18. State emergency preparedness requirements for birth centers can be found in Chapter 22. (Accessed November 26, 2024.)
Critical Access Hospital Requirements: CMS Emergency Preparedness Final Rule (Updates effective March 26, 2021), ASPR/TRACIE. This document combines excerpts from the Final Rule and the recently released Interpretive Guidelines from CMS to provide a consolidated overview document of requirements for Critical Access Hospitals. (Accessed November 26, 2024.)
State emergency preparedness requirements for critical access hospitals can be found in Chapter 4. (Accessed November 26, 2024.)
Organ Procurement Organization Requirements: CMS Emergency Preparedness Final Rule (Updates effective March 26, 2021), ASPR/TRACIE. This document combines excerpts from the Final Rule and the recently released Interpretive Guidelines from CMS to provide a consolidated overview document of requirements. (Accessed November 26, 2024.)
Hospital Evacuation Toolkit (2014 edition) of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) Hospital Evacuation Toolkit, developed by the Harvard School of Public Health (Accessed November 26, 2024.)
American College of Emergency Physicians, includes current resources on hospital evacuation, shelter-in-place, patient surge, also includes the Hospital Disaster Preparedness Self-Assessment Tool, and resources on EMS and disaster preparedness. (Accessed November 26, 2024.)
Healthcare COOP and Recovery Planning: Concepts, Principles, Templates and Resources, (January 2015) published by the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Office of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and response.(Accessed November 26, 2024.)
Hospital Disaster Preparedness and the Incident Command System (HICS), by the California Hospital Association. In addition to emergency planning, includes training, exercising, tools and checklists.(Accessed November 26, 2024.)
Understanding the Hospital Incident Command System (ICS), Module 2, HHS.gov.(Accessed November 26, 2024.)
Disaster Available Supplies in Hospitals (DASH) Tool, an interactive tool designed by ASPR TRACIE, with support from Healthcare Ready, helps hospital emergency planners and supply chain staff estimate supplies that may need to be immediately available during various mass casualty incidents (MCI) and infectious disease emergencies. DASH consists of several modules which, taken together, can provide hospitals a holistic view of the supplies needed to address various types of incidents. Each module also incorporates pediatric sizes and specific medication needs as appropriate to the incident.(Accessed November 26, 2024.)
CDC Pediatric Surge resources, Fluview, a weekly U.S. influenza surveillance report; Surveillance of RSV, and Pediatric COVID Data have the most current information to help health care workers address pediatric surge in viral respiratory illnesses impacting hospital capacity. (Accessed November 26, 2024.)
Critical Access Hospital 2023 Standard Revisions Customer Education, by ACHCU is a division of Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC),(Accessed November 26, 2024.)
Health Care Coalitions: A Resource to Support Critical Access Hospital Emergency Preparedness Planning, April, 2024, byJohn Gale, MS; Karen Pearson, MLIS, MA; and Rebecca Stearn, MPH, EMS-I of the Flex Monitoring Team (FMT), a consortium of researchers from the Universities of Minnesota, North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Southern Maine evaluate the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Grant Program. (Accessed November 26, 2024.)
Emergency Preparedness and Response Efforts in Critical Access Hospitals: Supporting and Strengthening Rural Preparedness and Response Programs, June 2003 presentation on YouTube video.
Rural Emergency Preparedness Toolkit, November 14, 2022 from the Rural Health Information Hub.(Accessed November 26, 2024.)