To enhance response, hospitals must coordinate their mass fatality planning activities with county and regional planning efforts. Education, training, and exercises should be implemented to ensure that staff are familiar with the plan and that it is practical. Additionally, the hospital’s mass fatality plan must align with state and local regulations, the National Incident Management System, and The Joint Commission’s standards.
The resource outlines the essential roles and responsibilities health care personnel providing immediate care to victims of mass casualty incidents, particularly those involving hazardous materials.
This webinar offers insight and lessons-learned from the Aurora, Colorado Theater Shooting.
This collection of fatality management resources was compiled by the Greater New York Hospital Association and includes challenges, innovations, and lessons-learned from mass fatality incidents:
2020 Virtual Disaster Conference
Experts from a community hospital and a stand-alone acute care facility share stories and describe how the continuity of decedent management is challenged when existing resources are beyond capacity.
Overcrowding makes Mass Casualty Incident (MCI) planning increasingly difficult for hospital emergency departments (EDs). MCI plans must incorporate tactics for rapidly and safely clearing space in EDs to accommodate the influx of casualties. The goal of this planning is to provide the greatest good for the greatest number of patients, both at the hospital before the disaster and for new casualties being received. Stanford experts will review how this planning is designed and how it has been refined with years of practice at their facility.
In the event of a catastrophic emergencies, hospital morgues can quickly become overwhelmed, requiring activation of internal mass fatality plans.
To maintain daily operations and patient care services, health care facilities need to develop an Emergency Water Supply Plan (EWSP) to prepare for, respond to, and recover from a total or partial interruption of the facilities’ normal water supply.
The Guidelines for Developing Best Practices to Assist California Hospitals in Preparing for and Responding to a Water Disruption toolkit may be used for hospital water disruption planning activities.
Developed by ASPR TRACIE, this toolkit was developed to assist health care facility managers and emergency planners to identify issues and considerations when planning for and responding to various types of utility failures.