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Section 3: Healthcare Planning and Emergency Response infection control methods. Education of the family may serve to reduce incidence of illness and/or absenteeism. Identification of sources of back-up personnel is of paramount importance given the likelihood of increased demands on the system posed by the pandemic, coupled with concurrent reduction in the work force due to illness, absenteeism, and exhaustion. Healthcare facilities should take the following steps to attempt to address projected staffing shortages: • Assign responsibility for the assessment and coordination of staffing during an emergency and ensure call-down lists (phone tree) are updated and procedures are current. • Estimate the minimum number and categories of personnel needed to care for a cohort of influenza patients per day/shift and use to project staffing needs; • Develop strategies to enhance staffing to required levels including: o reassign non-clinical staff to clinical and clinical support functions; o cross-train staff; o work with LHD, local OEM and other health facilities and community partners to recruit volunteers; o utilize healthcare students (e.g., medical and nursing students) and family members of patients where feasible; and o develop Mutual Aid Agreements or Memoranda of Understanding/Agreement with other healthcare facilities. • Understand the credentialing requirements and insurance and liability concerns related to using non-facility staff. • Hospitals should work with their local OEM and LHDs on recruitment, training and credentialing of volunteers to support surge staffing (see part V.B: Other Considerations, Volunteers). 3. Bed capacity The following actions should also be taken: • Review and revise admissions and discharge criteria for times when bed capacity is critically short. • Work with home healthcare agencies to arrange at-home follow-up care for patients who have been discharged early and for those whose admission was deferred because of limited bed space. • Hospitals in a region should plan and work together to provide support and back-up and to transfer patients when either capacity or capability of a facility is exceeded. • Review and refine the criteria hospitals currently use for temporarily canceling elective surgical procedures during surge periods. Plans should also be made for determining what and where emergency procedures will be performed during a pandemic. • HERDS will be used to track bed availability and need; therefore, hospitals must: o ensure that an adequate number of staff on all shifts are assigned HERDS roles and are trained. February 7, 2006 3-11
Section 3: Healthcare Planning and Emergency Response o ensure that internal systems are in place to collect accurate data relating to bed supply and patient load. • Develop policies and procedures for moving patients (e.g., cohorting) between nursing units in order to obtain optimal utilization of resources (staff). 4. Consumable and durable supplies • Inventory existing supplies and estimate resources required to address patient needs during pandemic. For additional details see: (http://www.cdc.gov/flu/flusurge.htm). • Consider stockpiling enough consumable resources such as masks for the duration of a pandemic wave (6-8 weeks). • The existing system for tracking available medical supplies in the hospital should be evaluated as to whether it is capable of detecting rapid consumption, including PPE. Improve the system as needed to respond to growing demands for resources during an influenza pandemic. • Assess anticipated needs for consumable and durable resources, and determine a trigger point for ordering extra resources. Estimate the need for respiratory care equipment (including mechanical ventilators), and develop a strategy for acquiring additional equipment if needed. • Anticipate needs for antibiotics to treat bacterial complications of influenza and determine how supplies can be maintained during a pandemic. 5. Continuation of essential medical services Address how essential medical services will be maintained for persons with chronic medical problems served by the hospital (e.g., hemodialysis patients, drug infusion therapy). H. Mortuary Issues Hospitals must prepare for the possibility that mass mortalities may result from pandemic influenza. The following steps should be included in the hospital plans: • Assessment of current capacity for refrigeration of deceased persons • Discussion of issues surrounding mass fatality with LHD, OEM and medical examiners including temporary sites to accommodate morgue surge • Review current inventory of supplies (e.g., body bags) and project the needs to handle an increased number of deceased persons. Use of FluSurge software will assist in identifying potential needs (http://www.cdc.gov/flu/flusurge.htm) I. Health Emergency Response Data System (HERDS): Resource Tracking 1. Purpose and Functions The Health Emergency Response Data System (HERDS) resides on the secure New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) Commerce Health Information Network (HIN)/Health Provider Network (HPN) and was designed as February 7, 2006 3-12
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Introduction Pandemic influenza occ
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