Health Care Significant Snow Event

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Health CareSignificant Snow Event
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Winter weather has the ability to knock out heat,
power and communication services to your home,
and facility, sometimes for days at a time. Heavy
snowfall and extreme cold can immobilize an
entire region. To be able to support your
community and respond to your health care
facility you and your staff need to be prepared
at home and for the road.
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Facility Preparedness

• Verify all necessary vendor emergency phone
  numbers are accurate
• Housing/dependent care considerations
• Patient surge equipment supplies
• Hard copy of current staff phone list with
  estimated time of arrival (with consideration of
  their responsibilities at home)

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96 Hour Capabilities Analysis
The analysis is based on our average daily census
( ? ), average daily temperature ( ?? F ), and
with instituting use reduction/substitution
protocols where feasible.
Resources/Assets Not available gt24 HR 24 HR 48 HR 72 HR 96 HR Capacities

Food 96 Pt./staff/vist.
Linen (sheets, gowns pillows/covers, towels, and blankets) 72 20 cots 240 sheets 200 emerg. blankets
Water (consumption/ essential care 1 gal./pt/day 96 Heater tanks 7,000 gal.
Fuel (Generators) 60g/Hr/70 load 96 11,000 gal Min 17,000 gal. Max
Fuel (Generators/boilers) 165g/Hr/70 66 Min. 94 Max.
Fuel (Boilers) 105g/Hr/70 load 96 11,000 gal. Min 17,000 gal. Max
S A M P L E
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• Facility Response
• Incident Command System implemented
• HICS 251 Facility Systems Status Report
• (www.emsa.ca.gov/HICS/files/hics251.p
  df)
• Monitor weather reports
• Review outage operations with staff in person and
  via email, especially when the building should go
  to emergency power.
• Web postings

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• Communicate with supervisor
• Check equipment / supplies
• Check staffing levels
• Assess electives/admits/discharge capacity
• Traffic control / snow removal
• Transport for staff/patients/
• equipment

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The following slides are an index that will
assist shelters and alternate care facililities
in determining if a citizen requires more acute
care and needs to be transferred to a hospital.
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SHELTERED CITIZEN INDEXUse to determine if a
person may need a higher level of care.
Criteria 6 points 3 points 0 points
Age lt3 or gt75 4 - 5 or 65 - 75 5 - 65
Meds multiple cardiac, diabetes, etc routine no routine meds
Resp. 02 treatment 02 depend 02 prn
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Scoring 0 12 Low potential for relocation 6
18 Moderate potential for relocation 18
48 Relocate to health care facility