JCAHO Emergency Management Standards for Healthcare Facilities

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JCAHO Emergency Management Standards for
Healthcare Facilities

• CDR Robert G. Darling, MC, USN
• Medical Director, Aeromedical Isolation Team and
  Containment Care
• U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of
  Infectious Diseases
• Fort Detrick, Maryland

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JCAHO Emergency Management Standards

• Historically Environment of Care Standards
• Horizontal and Vertical Integration
• Update / Clarification of EM standards

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JCAHO Emergency Management Standards

• Significant revisions
• EC 2.14 Testing of emergency power sources
• EC 2.9 Drills and Exercises
• EC 2.10 Fire Drills
• EC 1.6 Plans must address
• Emergency Management

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JCAHO Emergency Management Standards

• EC 1.6 Emergency Management
• Address 4 phases Mitigation, Preparedness,
  Response and Recovery
• All hazards approach vice disaster specific
• Employ a Hazard Vulnerability Analysis
• Integrate with community-wide emergency
  response agencies

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JCAHO Emergency Management Standards

• EC 1.6 Emergency Management
• Logistics of critical supplies, staff and
  family-support issues, media interaction,
  security
• Alternative Care Sites
• Must coordinate with the local EM community

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JCAHO Emergency Management Standards

• Definitions
• Disaster (civil disturbance)
• Mitigation
• Hazard Vulnerability Analysis
• Other (hazardous materials)

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Points of Contact

• CAPT Vince Musashe
• CDR Jerry Mothershead
• CDR Randy Culpepper
• CDR Rob Darling
• LCDR Craig Howard

• VWMusashe_at_US.MED.NAVY.MIL
• mothersheadj_at_nehc.med.navy.mil
• randy.culpepper_at_det.amedd.army.mil
• Robert.darling_at_det.amedd.army.mil
• CMHoward_at_US.MED.NAVY.MIL