CHA, in consult with state agencies, has prepared a Hospital Repopulation after Evacuation Guidelines and Checklist to help hospitals identify identify operational and safety best practices and regulatory agency requirements that must be considered when repopulating after full or partial evacuation of general acute care hospital inpatient building(s).
The initiative to develop repopulation guidelines was undertaken to identify factors and steps that will allow an evacuated hospital to return to normal operations as quickly as possible. While events and circumstances may vary, efforts focused on identification of state agency requirements and the basic steps that must be considered to meet those requirements.
These guidelines should be used to review and update hospital evacuation and shelter-in-place plans to ensure that they are consistent and to allow the hospital to consider repopulation requirements prior to evacuation.