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Happy Spring, ASPR TRACIE stakeholders! We hope that March went out like a lamb where you live. We encourage you to share resources, such as plans, tools, templates, and reports you have used in your healthcare organization or facility for potential inclusion in our Resource Library. These resources might help your colleagues and others in the field. Check out some great examples of resources being shared by your colleagues in the Technical Resources domain section below, and dont hesitate to reach out to us anytime with questions or suggestions. This issue of The Express includes links to newly-released webinars, information on recent and updated ASPR TRACIE documents, and domain updates. |
| NEW! Healthcare Response to a No-Notice Event: Las Vegas Webinar Recording and Resources |
ASPR TRACIE hosted a webinar on March 28 with healthcare providers who responded to the October 2017 mass shooting incident in Las Vegas. The diverse panel covered topics such as surge management, triage, prioritization of surgical care, incorporating pediatric providers in adult response operations, and mortuary response. To learn more, access the presentation and recording and the document featuring questions answered by the panel after the webinar. ASPR TRACIE also developed eight tip sheets based on healthcare system lessons learned from recent no-notice incidents (listed alphabetically):
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| NEW: Medical Surge and the Role of Urgent Care Centers |
| The Medical Surge and the Role of Urgent Care Centers paper and accompanying one-page fact sheet are based on interviews ASPR TRACIE conducted with urgent care center (UCC) physicians and administrators from across the country. ASPR TRACIE found that UCCs are willing to participate in healthcare emergency preparedness and response activities and possess capabilities that could be valuable during emergencies. However, many are not engaged in preparedness activities, have concerns about the legal and financial implications of their involvement, and lack knowledge of their communities healthcare surge plans and how they could sustain their response to an emergency. |
| NEW: CMS Emergency Preparedness Rule: Integrated Health Systems Implications |
| The CMS EP Rule includes a provision for integrated healthcare systems, which consist of multiple, separately certified healthcare facilities under one parent organization. If a regulated facility is part of an integrated healthcare system that elects to have a unified and integrated emergency preparedness program (rather than have each facility separately conduct their own emergency preparedness program), then each facility and the parent organization must adhere to the integrated healthcare system requirements outlined in the final rule. This document outlines the information available to healthcare system emergency planners about the integrated healthcare system requirements in the final rule. |
| Healthcare Coalition Overview and Fiscal Models Fact Sheets |
| ASPR TRACIEs General Overview of Healthcare Coalitions (HCCs) provides a synopsis of core capabilities and response functions and includes links to helpful resources. The Healthcare Coalition Fiscal Models Fact Sheet summarizes various fiscal models HCCs can use to sustain programs. Check out our Select Healthcare Coalition Resources page for additional tools, templates, and HCC plans. |
| Short Video Conversations with ASPR TRACIE: Patient Surge Strategies |
| Surges in seasonal illnesses have led to increased patient volume in private practices, UCCs, and emergency departments across the country. These two new short videos feature Drs. Syra Madad and Sean Studer from NYC Health + Hospitals describing their flu surge problems and Ryan Hay, Director of Emergency Preparedness from Lehigh Valley Health Network, describing their solution to flu surge. These videos complement our Considerations for the Use of Temporary Care Locations for Managing Seasonal Patient Surge (working draft) document. |
| Visit Us at the Preparedness Summit! |
| Check out our Quick Hit Session ASPR TRACIE: Resources to Help Build Resilience for the Expected and Unexpected on April 19 from 3:30-4:15 PM and our poster presentation The Best Disaster Medicine Literature of 2016 at the 2018 Preparedness Summit. You can also visit the entire ASPR team in booth 509. We hope to see you there. |
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