Health CareHealth CareSignificant Snow EventSignificant Snow Event

Health CareHealth CareSignificant Snow EventSignificant Snow Event

Winter weather has the ability to knock out heat, power and communication services to your home, and facility, sometimes for days at a time. Heavy snowfall and extreme cold can immobilize an entire region. To be able to support your community and respond to your health care facility you and your staff need to be prepared at home and for the road.

Facility PreparednessFacility Preparedness

•Verify all necessary vendor emergency phone numbers are accurate

• Housing/dependent care considerations

• Patient surge: equipment & supplies

•Hard copy of current staff phone list with estimated time of arrival (with consideration of their responsibilities at home)

96 Hour Capabilities AnalysisThe analysis is based on our average daily census ( ? ), average daily temperature ( ?? F ), and with instituting use reduction/substitution protocols where feasible.

Resources/Assets Not available

>24 HR 24 HR

48 HR

72 HR

96 HR Capacities

Food 96 Pt./staff/vist.

Linen (sheets, gowns pillows/covers, towels, and blankets)

72 + 20 cots 240 sheets 200 emerg. blankets

Water (consumption/ essential care = 1 gal./pt/day

96 Heater tanks = 7,000 gal.

Fuel (Generators) 60g/Hr/70% load

96 11,000 gal Min

17,000 gal. Max

Fuel (Generators/boilers) 165g/Hr/70%

66Min.

94Max.

Fuel (Boilers)105g/Hr/70% load

96 11,000 gal. Min

17,000 gal. Max

SAMPLE

Facility ResponseFacility Response

• Incident Command System implementedHICS 251: Facility Systems Status Report

(www.emsa.ca.gov/HICS/files/hics251.pdf)

• Monitor weather reports

•Review outage operations with staff in person and via email, especially when the building should go to emergency power.

• Web postings

• Communicate with supervisor

• Check equipment / supplies

• Check staffing levels

• Assess electives/admits/discharge capacity

• Traffic control / snow removal • Transport for staff/patients/ equipment

The following slides are an index that will assist shelters and alternate care facililities in determining if a citizen requires more acute care and needs to be transferred to a hospital.

SHELTERED CITIZEN INDEXUse to determine if a person may need a higher level of care.

Criteria 6 points 3 points 0 points

Age <3 or >75

4 - 5 or 65 - 75

5 - 65

Meds multiple

cardiac, diabetes, etc

routine no routine meds

Resp. 02

treatment

02

depend

02 prn

Scoring:0 – 12 Low potential for relocation6 – 18 Moderate potential for relocation18 – 48 Relocate to health care facility