(HPP) Performance Measure Manual

HPP 3.1
Data Element #2:
Has the HCC planned with partner hospitals and
other HCOs to identify each hospital and other
HCO’s maximum patient capacity to establish its
baseline as a coalition?
Technical Assistance Guidance:
It is expected that the HCC and its members
together establish a baseline of the HCC’s total
bed capacity for the defined geographic region
to achieve the goal outlined in Capability 10.1,
Function 3.
Once there is an established HCC baseline, then
the necessary calculations related to surge can
be established:
• Diversion of patients to maintain baseline.
• Capability or Capacity Building necessary to
reach 20% beds above baseline.
• Decompression to achieve 20% of baseline
“immediate” bed availability (i.e., within
four-hours of a disaster).
• If crisis standards of care have been defined,
capacity can be calculated, assuming
alternate care standards are in effect.
The “maximum patient capacity” is the staffed
bed capacity of the hospital or other ‘inpatient”
HCO providers during peak operation as
calculated for an accrediting organization. The
baseline does not include any “extra” peak
capacity (See Capability 10, F 3 page 36), such as
Alternate Care Sites, that its HCOs could plan to
“stand up” and staff.
Data Element #3:
Has the HCC coordinated healthcare response
operations with appropriate patient transport
operations within the community, in an exercise
or event, within the past year?
Technical Assistance Guidance:
The exercise or event must have included
patient transport processes (as defined in
Capability X, Function 3) capable of transporting
victims from every location affected by the
event or exercise.
Although the HPP FOA requires that all hospitals
and HCCs participate in at least one regional or
statewide exercise over the 5-year grant period,
an HCC must identify each year whether the
HCC and its members have participated in an
exercise or an event. The HCC is strongly
encouraged to participate in a yearly exercise or
event if the opportunity arises. If there was no
event or exercise, it must score ‘No’ because of
no opportunity.
The HCC does not have to be the lead organizer,
but the HCC must participate as an operational
entity.
Data Element #4:
In the past year, which of the following
functions were successfully demonstrated by
the HCC’s hospitals and other HCOs in the
exercise or event in which the HCC participated?
• Triage
• Treatment
• Transport
• Tracking of patients
• Documentation of care
• Off-loading
Technical Assistance Guidance:
The event or the nature of the exercise is the
driver as to which of the 6 (or all of the 6)
functions must be successfully demonstrated.
In order to respond that a function was
'successfully demonstrated,' the function must
have been included in the scope of the exercise
and must have achieved exercise goals specific
to each capability.
Emergency Operations Coordination
Pre-Incident
Healthcare
Response
Preparedness
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