HOSPITAL EMERGENCY READINESS SOLUTION
Resources
Training & Tools
Exercise Guides
California emergency Medical Services Authority - 2006
This is California's eighth annual exercise incorporating
hospitals and ancillary healthcare providers, including long-term care facilities and clinics, pre-hospital
care providers, auxiliary communication networks, blood transfusion services, Emergency Medical
Service (EMS) agencies, Public Health and other governmental agencies.
FEMA
The Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program is a capabilities and performance-based exercise program that provides a standardized policy, methodology, and language for designing, developing, conducting, and evaluating all exercises.
Online Learning
FEMA
Emergency Management Institute's (with FEMA) online course catalogue
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Links to online learning sites and State Health Department resources
Online Course Catalog
Online courses from the Center for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Response
Public Tools
FEMA
The NIMS Compliance Assistance Support Tool (NIMSCAST) is designed as the premier, web-based self-assessment instrument for State, territorial, tribal, local governments to evaluate and report their jurisdiction's achievement of all NIMS implementation activities released since 2004.
If you have been affected by a disaster, this website provides a way for you to register yourself as “safe and well.” From a list of standard messages, you can select those that you want to communicate to your family members, letting them know of your well-being.
Web Content Management Working Group of the Interagency Committee on Government Information (ICGI)
Plain language (also called Plain English) is communication your audience can understand the first time they read or hear it. Language that is plain to one set of readers may not be plain to others.
University of Maryland
The Global Terrorism Database (GTD) is an open-source database including information on terrorist events around the world since 1970 (currently updated through 2004). Unlike many other event databases, the GTD includes systematic data on international as well as domestic terrorist incidents that have occurred during this time period and now includes almost 80,000 cases. For each GTD incident, information is available on the date and location of the incident, the weapons used and nature of the target, the number of casualties, and -- when identifiable -- the identity of the perpetrator.
National Ocean Service Office
Electonic ICS Forms in filemaker
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Tools recently developed for hospitals and other providers from research of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
FluSurge is a spreadsheet-based model which provides hospital administrators and public health officials estimates of the surge in demand for hospital-based services during the next influenza pandemic.
Assists state and local level planners in preparing for the next influenza pandemic by providing estimates of potential impact specific to their locality.
Private Tools
Department of Homeland Security
US national network of Lessons Learned and Best Practices for emergency response providers and homeland security officials.
Canada Public Health
Surveillance, notification, disease tracking and data exchange for Canadian public health agencies.
The Provincial Transfer Authorization Centre (PTAC) helps with infectious disease control by screening patient transfers between healthcare facilities in Ontario.
A National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) sponsored information systems development project, ROSS is a computer software program which automates the resource ordering, status, and reporting process.
Training & Tools