Medical Special Needs Sheltering

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Medical Special Needs Sheltering

• May 28, 2009

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Objectives

• Briefly Discuss State of La Evacuation Plans
• Define Shelter Types
• Show Shelter Locations
• Briefly Discuss Sheltering Plans

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Evacuation Plans

• General Population Evacuation
• Encourage citizens to evacuate by own means
• Transportation-challenged can utilize Parish
  Pick-up Points (Regions 1, 3, 4 and 5)
• DOTD approx 700 busses to support parish
  evacuations
• Three Vehicle Staging Areas
• Zephyr Field to support SELA
• Chennault to support SWLA
• Shreveport

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Evacuation Plans

• Hospital Evacuations
• Medical institutions are responsible for having
  evacuation plans, including contracts or
  agreements in place to execute them. However,
  large-scale medical evacuation of an entire
  Region or multiple Regions will require private,
  local, State, and Federal assets to accomplish
  the mission.
• If the local government is overwhelmed by the
  demand for medical evacuation, assistance from
  the State and Federal ESF 8 partners will be
  required.
• State and Federal assistance includes those
  elements required to successfully execute a
  medical evacuation and sheltering plan

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Evacuation Plans

• Nursing Home Evacuations
• Nursing Homes in 22 parishes required to submit
  viable emergency plans for review to DHH
• Plans to be reviewed and updated annually
• Plans also submitted to local/parish OHSEP

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Shelter Types

• Medical Special Needs Shelters (MSNS)
• Critical Transportation Needs Shelters (CTNS)
• Sex-Offender Site (SOS)
• Federal Medical Station (FMS)

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Sheltering

• Medical Special Needs Shelters
• Evacuees requiring medical assistance with daily
  activities
• Evacuees that cannot take care of themselves and
  are accompanied by a caregiver for assistance
• Evacuees who do not have conditions severe enough
  to be admitted to a hospital

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Sheltering - MSNS
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Sheltering

• CTNS
• Evacuees who do not have their own means of
  transportation to evacuate
• Evacuees who are evacuated via bus according to
  city/state-assisted plans
• Sex-Offender Site
• Registered sex offenders
• Registered sex offenders are required by law to
  be sheltered separate from general population
  evacuees
• Parish-Operated CTNS
• Three CTNS sties

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Sheltering State Run CTNS
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ShelteringNon State Run CTNS
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Sheltering - SOS
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Sheltering

• Federal Medical Station (FMS)
• When the state requests federal medical support,
  an FMS will provide scalable, modular, and
  rapidly deployable health and medical care to
  people with
• Non-acute medical, mental health, or other
  health-related needs that cannot be accommodated
  or provided for in a general shelter
• Conditions that require observation, assessment,
  or maintenance
• Chronic conditions that require assistance with
  activities of daily living but do not require
  hospitalization
• Medication and vital sign monitoring needs

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Sheltering - FMS
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Contact Information

• Melissa Guillory
• Capitol Region 2
• Regional Administrator
• Melissa.guillory_at_la.gov