Hospital Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) TEMPLATE

Hospital Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) Template
of available hospitals, other hospitals and other external resource suppliers as
is feasible.
3.8.1 EOC Request Process
3.8.1.1 In the response to an incident, AGENCY staff may require additional
personnel, supplies, or equipment or an executive decision concerning the
acquisition or disposition of a resource, or the expenditure of funds.
Requests for assistance will be transmitted from the various areas of the
organization via existing lines of communications to the EOC. The EOC will
acknowledge the receipt of the request and, immediately address the need
from current resources or incorporate the request into planning and priority
setting processes.
3.8.1.2 The Logistics Section staff in the EOC may turn to external vendors for the
resources or the ESF8C.
3.8.1.3 The ESF8C will seek resources to fill the request from within the
City/County. If resources cannot be found and the request is high priority,
it will be submitted to Regional, State, and Federal response levels until the
requested resource can be obtained.
3.8.2 Vendors
As information develops about current and future resource needs, healthcare
facilities should consider contacting vendors of critical supplies and equipment
to alert them of pending needs and to ascertain vendor capacity to meet those
needs. AGENCY recognizes that in a major incident, medical supply vendors
may face competing demands that exceed their capacity. In that case, request
for assistance will be submitted to the Hospital Coordination System (HCS),
who will set resource allocation priorities.
3.8.3 Other Hospitals/ Hospital Coordination System (HCS)
AGENCY will notify hospitals with which it has mutual assistance
arrangements. It will also notify the Hospital Coordination System (HCS) and
request assistance if the HCS has a resource acquisition role.
3.9 Communications
3.9.1 Communications Officer
The Incident Commander will appoint a Communications Officer, who may be
the Communications Coordinator, who will work under the Logistics Section
and will use the hospital’s communications resources to communicate with:
• The Emergency Support Function 8 Coordinator (ESF8C).
• Emergency response agencies.
• Outside relief agencies.
• Hospital Coordination System.
• Other hospitals.
Contact Lists:
• Telephone service providers and maintenance for the hospital’s internal
telephone system, along with utilities are listed in Appendix J.2 – Basic
Hospital Support.
• Staff contact telephone numbers are listed in Appendix J.1 – Staff Call
Back.
• Incident response agency contact telephone numbers are listed in Appendix
J.3 – Incident Contacts.
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