Related to upcoming National Grid-EX Nov 15-16 exercise?
Federal Deadline requiring ALL healthcare providers participating in the US gov’t Medicare program have approved Emergency prep plan in place.
Coincidence?
“Based on CMS’s expanded conditions of participation, all medical providers must have a compliant Emergency Preparedness Program in place by November 15, 2017.
All 17 types of Medicare providers and suppliers are required to comply with the new guidelines (including physician practices, ambulatory surgery centers (ASC), hospitals, critical access hospitals (CAHs), Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and Rural Health Clinics (RHCs)).”
I work in a hospital.
This Emergency Prep Plan replaces the ones that have been in place since...forever.
This time there are things like business contingency planning and Business continuity—more like a depth chart for staffing in all departments.
The Emergency Plans have been in place for the ten years I’ve been here. These news ones add like two more pages.
And it means that a lot of department heads actually have to think about stuff they never thing of. Its kind of cute.