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Promising practices that significantly increase health care worker surge capacity.

New Item Closed Dispensing Site Guide (MN)
The Closed Dispensing Site Workbook is designed to help community organizations become closed dispensing sites to administer medication to their staff and/or clients during an...   >> More
New Item Pandemic Influenza Planning Guidance for Healthcare Institutions (PA)
Philadelphia's Pandemic Influenza Planning Guidance for Healthcare Institutions addresses the needs and situations that may be experienced by hospitals during a pandemic. The guidance...   >> More
New Item Emergency Preparedness Toolkit for Community Health Centers and Community Practice Sites
Columbia University's Emergency Preparedness Toolkit provides streamlined information, tools, and templates to encourage continuity of operations planning for Community Health Centers...   >> More
New Item Linking Home Care and Public Health (MD)
The Montgomery County Advanced Practice Center developed a toolkit to assist health departments in conducting a pandemic influenza preparedness workshop for home care providers. While...   >> More
New Item Minnesota Psychological First Aid Training
The Minnesota Department of Health adapted the National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder's Psychological First Aid (PFA) course into a brief training for emergency responders....   >> More
New Item Rapid Patient Discharge Tool (NY)
The Rapid Patient Discharge Tool (RPDT) was developed by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to assist hospital administrators and emergency managers during...   >> More
New Item Standards and Guidelines for Healthcare Surge during Emergencies (CA)
The California Department of Public Health has outlined a process for dealing with the complex issues of clinical care surge capacity during a public health emergency. The tools could...   >> More
New Item Sample resort MOU for SNS (NV)
A Nevada health department established a potential Memorandum of Understanding with resorts in the Las Vegas region for distribution of Strategic National Stockpile medications in the...   >> More
New Item Health System Surge and Resource Management (WA)
An after-action report from Seattle and King County covers the objectives, tools, and results from a tabletop exercise on healthcare surge capacity during an influenza pandemic. The...   >> More
New Item Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act (National)
The Act is a legislative proposal intended to make voluntary health practitioners available for deployment as quickly as possible in response to emergency declarations. The National...   >> More
New Item San Francisco Job Action Sheets (CA)
San Francisco has provided over 120 specific job action sheets for public health professionals who are responding to various aspects of an infectious disease emergency. The job action...   >> More
New Item Surge Capacity Guidelines and Templates (IA)
The Surge Capacity Guidelines and Templates provide a broad and interconnected approach to managing patient overload in hospitals, medical clinics, and alternate care sites. The...   >> More
New Item Medical Coordination and Care Delivery Process (WA)
The concept of operations develops helpful processes to identify fairly specific triage and treatment objectives within a four-tiered medical response model. The concept develops...   >> More
New Item Extended Childcare (TN)
The Extended Childcare materials provide a process through which state employees could contract childcare services if they are required to respond to an emergency. This practice may...   >> More
New Item Health Human Resources Planning Tools (Ontario, Canada)
The Health Human Resources Planning Tools are intended to provide a competency-based framework for recruiting and screening volunteers to assist with patient care in a pandemic...   >> More
New Item Pandemic Influenza Planning Kit for Outpatient Providers (GA)
The Pandemic Influenza Planning Kit for Outpatient Providers is a clear and concise guide that nicely summarizes key information. The materials represent an integration of trusted and...   >> More
New Item Trainings, Drills & Exercises: Hospital and Primary Care Centers Tabletop Toolkit (NY)
New York City's toolkit can be used as a starting point to design, conduct, and evaluate tabletop exercises to enhance hospital preparedness for emergencies, such as pandemic...   >> More
New Item Tips for first responders for people with special needs (NM)
A small pocket guide provides guidance on how first responders should approach caring for people with special needs during an emergency. The content may serve as a quick reference for...   >> More
New Item Personal protective equipment pocket guide (DE)
A laminated set of cards provides first responders with education on personal protective equipment (PPE) and also identifies which types of PPE are appropriate for particular...   >> More
New Item Central Brooklyn Center for Bioterrorism and Preparedness Planning: An Integrated Plan to Augment Surge Capacity (NY)
A concept of operations describes an integrated approach to developing surge capacity plans between multiple hospitals. Four hospitals in Brooklyn, New York, developed a collaborative...   >> More
New Item Creating Ambulatory Care Integration into Hospital Surge Event Response: MediSys Health Network Emergency Response (NY)
A process for integrating ambulatory care centers into hospital surge capacity response plans is described in this document. The workgroup involved in the process built on the assets...   >> More
New Item Good Samaritan Legislation (NC)
The Good Samaritan legislation proposal aims to provide statutory protections for businesses and non-profit organizations that assist in governmental response efforts following a...   >> More

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