(HPP) Performance Measure Manual

HPP 1.1
HPP 1.1: Healthcare System Preparedness
Introduction
Healthcare system preparedness is the ability of a community’s
healthcare service delivery system to prepare, respond, and
recover from incidents that have a public health and medical
impact in the short and long term. The healthcare system role in
community preparedness involves coordination with emergency
management, public health, mental or behavioral health providers,
community and faith-based partners, and State, local, and
territorial governments in order to do the following:
• Provide and sustain a tiered, scalable, and flexible approach to
attain needed disaster response and recovery capabilities
while not jeopardizing services to individuals in the community
• Provide timely monitoring and management of resources
• Coordinate the allocation of emergency medical care
resources
• Provide timely and relevant information on the status of the
incident and healthcare system to key stakeholders
Healthcare system preparedness is achieved through a continuous
cycle of planning, organizing, equipping, training, exercises,
evaluations and corrective actions.
Capability Functions
• Has the HCC established a formal self-governance structure (e.g.,
By-laws for the board of directors and a charter that is
multidisciplinary and representative of all members of the
coalition)?
• Please estimate the total percentage of the State population
covered by each HCC within the State
• Does the HCC include emergency management and public health
as integral partners?
• Has the HCC and its members participated in at least one HSEEPcompliant
exercise to test State, regional and facility-level
healthcare disaster plans considering scenarios identified by a
Hazard Vulnerability Assessment (HVA) within the past year?
• In the past year, did the HCC achieve its established exercise
participation goals for its member organizations engagement in
exercises or real events to test regional State, regional and
facility-level healthcare disaster plan?
• In the past year, did the exercises or real events to test regional,
State, and facility-level healthcare disaster plans demonstrate
the HCC capabilities to function as a coordinated entity?
• Has the HCC successfully implemented “lessons learned” and
corrective actions from an exercise or event within the past
year?
Healthcare System Preparedness
• Develop, refine, or sustain Healthcare Coalitions
• Coordinate healthcare planning to prepare the healthcare
system for a disaster
• Identify and prioritize essential healthcare assets and
services
• Determine gaps in the healthcare preparedness and
identify resources for mitigation of these gaps
• Coordinate training to assist healthcare responders to
develop the necessary skills in order to respond
• Improve healthcare response capabilities through
coordinated exercise and evaluation
• Coordinate with planning for at-risk individuals and those
with special medical needs
HPP 1.1: Healthcare System
Preparedness
Measure 1.1:
Percent of healthcare coalitions (HCCs) that have established
formalized agreements and demonstrate their ability to function
and execute the capabilities for healthcare preparedness,
response, and recovery as defined in Healthcare Preparedness
Capabilities.
Performance Target:
100% by the end of the project period (Year 1 data will be used to
establish baselines).
Data Elements:
• Are there formal documents such as: Memoranda of
Understanding (MOUs), Mutual Aid Agreements (MAAs),
Interagency Agreement (IAAs), articles of incorporation, letters
of agreement, contracts, charters, or other supporting formal
documents?
Thinking It Through
Key Questions To Think Through Before
Beginning to Answer the Data Elements
• Are there formal agreements that bind your HCC together?
• Is the HCC Integrated with the command and control structure
of the local, regional, or State jurisdiction?
• Does the HCC have a collaborative governance structure with
defined roles and responsibilities for HCC leaders and member
representatives?
• What is the population size of the HCC’s geographical area and
the relationship to the State population?
• Does the HCC coordinate/integrate with State, regional, tribal,
county, and city (where applicable) emergency management
and public health for emergency response and recovery
planning?
• Has the HCC and its members participated with regional and
State jurisdictions planning efforts to conduct a coordinated
HVA within in the past 3 years?
• Has the HCC participated in regional or State exercises that
evaluates one of the scenarios identified in the HVA?
• Have “lessons learned” and corrective actions been
implemented?
Pre-Incident
Healthcare
Preparedness
Response
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