KNOX/EAST TN HEALTHCARE COALITION CHARITY MENEFEE, KNOX COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT WANDA ROBERTS, TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
OVERVIEW ▪ Healthcare Coalition overview ▪ Knox/East TN Healthcare Coalition ▪ Opportunities for support
HEALTHCARE COALITIONS
HEALTHCARE COALITIONS OVERVIEW ▪ Hospital Preparedness Program ▪ HPP directs program activities (HPP): Only source of federal through Healthcare funding that supports regional Preparedness and Response healthcare system Capabilities (2017-2022): preparedness. ▪ Cap 1: Foundation for healthcare and medical ▪ HPP directs the development of readiness regional healthcare coalitions ▪ Cap 2: Healthcare and (HCCs) that incentivize diverse medical response and often competitive coordination healthcare organizations with different priorities and ▪ Cap 3: Continuity of objectives to work together. Healthcare Service Delivery ▪ Cap 4: Medical Surge
HCC ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES ▪ HCCs serve as multiagency ▪ Healthcare Coalitions have a diverse composition: coordination groups that support and integrate with ESF-8 ▪ Hospitals* ▪ Public health* ▪ Collaborate on healthcare emergency ▪ EMS* response and recovery planning, training, and exercising. ▪ Emergency management* ▪ Behavioral health ▪ Response actions include: ▪ Non-governmental organizations ▪ Information sharing (e.g., American Red Cross) ▪ Resource coordination and ▪ Outpatient providers (e.g., management ambulatory surgical care centers, FQHCs) ▪ Skilled nursing and long-term care ▪ Support service providers (e.g., blood banks, medical examiners)
TENNESSEE HEALTHCARE COALITIONS ▪ Tennessee Healthcare Coalitions collaborate to address challenges and work towards solutions that improve the Upper health and prosperity of our TN Highland Rim Northeast/Sullivan Cumberland WATCH 7 communities. ▪ Aligned with the eight EMS Regions. Knox/East ▪ Contact information for each TN HCC is Mid South South Central Southeast/Hamilton located here: www.tn.gov/health/article/healthcare- coalitions
KNOX/EAST TN HEALTHCARE COALITION (KET HC) ▪ Participating organizations ▪ Serves Knox and the 15 ▪ 20 acute care hospitals surrounding counties ▪ EMS ▪ Over 1 million residents ▪ Regional Medical Communications Center ▪ Local and State Public Health ▪ Local and State Emergency Management ▪ Regional Blood Bank ▪ Behavioral Health ▪ Homeland Security ▪ American Red Cross ▪ Regional Forensic Center
PLANNING APPROACH
KET HC PLANNING APPROACH ▪ Hazard Vulnerability Assessment (HVA) ▪ Member organizations complete internal HVA ▪ Coalition HVA developed utilizing member’s HVAs HVA ▪ Gap Analysis ▪ Completed utilizing Survey Monkey Gap ▪ Members asked to identify resource, planning, response Analysis gaps ▪ Mitigation Mitigation ▪ Comprehensive approach to mitigating identified concerns through the region ▪ Include supplies, training, exercising
PAUSE FOR REVIEW OF CMS RULES
WHEN YOU READ THE NEW CMS EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS RULE
HOW THE KNOX/EAST TN HEALTHCARE COALITION CAN (AND CANNOT) ASSIST
ASSISTANCE WE CAN PROVIDE ▪ Networking ▪ Training and Templates ▪ Exercising ▪ Real World Emergency
NETWORKING ▪ Provide opportunities to share ideas, best practices, plans, templates, lessons learned. ▪ Use Pre-existing Regional Groups ▪ Send reps to KET HC meeting ▪ KET HC reps can attend your meetings ▪ No pre-existing network? We can support you if you are willing to drive it.
TRAINING/TEMPLATES ▪ Trainings ▪ Templates and Documents: ▪ National Incident ▪ ASPR TRACIE: Department of Management System (NIMS) Health and Human Services and Incident Command Assistant Secretary of System (ICS) Preparedness and Response (ASPR) Technical Resources, ▪ Coalition sponsored region- Assistance Center, and wide emergency and/or Information Exchange surge-related trainings (TRACIE) at https://asprtracie.hhs.gov/ ▪ KET HC Website at http://ketcoalition.org ▪ Training and Event Calendar ▪ Hazard Vulnerability Assessment (HVA)
EXERCISE SUPPORT ▪ KET HC Annual Full Scale Exercise ▪ Planning team from a variety of organizations ▪ Plans and templates provided ▪ Future years will attempt to incorporate LTC objectives ▪ THIS YEAR ▪ Spring/Early Summer 2017 KET HC will host a Workshop for LTC partners focusing on exercise planning. ▪ Attendees will leave the Workshop with a template for a Tabletop Exercise to be performed internally at your organization. ▪ Fall 2017 KET HC will facilitate a Full Scale Exercise focusing on LTC needs. ▪ NEED YOUR HELP AND INPUT!
REAL EVENT SUPPORT ▪ Information Sharing ▪ Situation Reports and Needs ▪ Regional Medical Assessments at request of Tennessee Communications Center Department of Health and/or Knox Information Hub: County Health Department ▪ 865-305-8500 ▪ Facility Status ▪ Regional Hospital ▪ Identified Needs Coordinators may be able to provide scene related situation reports. ▪ Resource Identification/Allocation ▪ Generators ▪ Ambus Activation ▪ Gatlinburg Wildfire Example
WHAT WE CAN CANNOT PROVIDE ▪ Individualized Plans ▪ Expertise on your requirements, needs, hazards, gaps, etc. ▪ Formulate agreements or Memorandums of Understandings (MOU) with receiving facilities and/or vendors ▪ Funding to support meeting new CMS requirements ▪ Individual organizational training and/or exercises ▪ Regulatory compliance support
CONTACT INFORMATION ▪ Wanda Roberts, CHEP ▪ Charity Menefee, CHEP Regional Hospital Coordinator Regional Hospital Coordinator East Tennessee Regional Health Knox County Health Office Department (865) 549-5294 (865) 215-5098 Etrhc.health@tn.gov Charity.Menefee@knoxcounty. org
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