Healthcare Preparing for Medical Surge
Evacuation and shelter-in-place guidelines for hospitals and long-term care facilities, that can be used during flood or other disaster.
On this page:
Bed counts
Disaster
planning guidance
Long Term Care
Sheltering and relocation
Pediatric surge
Bed counts
- Long Term Care Emergency Preparedness
Bed County surveys by county for various long-term care facility types.
Disaster planning guidance
- Guidance – Pre-Planning Efforts Surrounding Nursing Home Residents and Flood Activities
- Long Term Care Facilities Evacuation Tips
Flooding often has the potential for the need to evacuate Long Term Care (LTC) facilities. Moving residents from a LTC facility is challenging under normal operations let alone disaster / crisis situations.
- LTC Providers: Join the Health Alert Network
Find out how to make sure your long-term care agency is receiving MDH health alerts.
Long Term Care
- Minnesota Long Term Care Preparedness Toolkit (Word: 1.5 MB/81 pages) (PDF: 1.3 MB/81 pages)
General emergency preparedness planning for long-term care facilities, created by an inter-agency group. Updated March, 2012.
- Long Term Care Evacuation Job Aid (PDF: 136KB/2 pages)
Threat assessment and decision tool.
Sheltering and relocation
- Emergency Sheltering, Relocation, and Evacuation for Healthcare Facilities (Word: 415KB/55 pages) (PDF: 930KB/55 pages)
Template for hospitals and long-term care facilities. Updated April, 2012.
- Healthcare Facility Sheltering, Relocation, and Evacuation (PPT: 6 MB/45 slides)
Presentation covering the types of incidents that lead to sheltering, relocation or evacuation, along with actions and strategies for each option.
- Healthcare Facility Sheltering, Relocation, and Evacuation (PPT: 417KB/27 slides)
Presentation on the specific challenges for healthcare and long-term care facilities.
- Healthcare Facility Training Matrix for Sheltering, Relocation, and Evacuation (PPT: 350/11 slides)
- Educational Support Matrix (PDF: 72KB/1 page)
Checklist to assess healthcare staff's proficiency in various evacuation and shelter-in-place activities.
- Hospital Evacuation Job Aid (PDF: 136KB/2 pages)
Threat assessment and decision tool.
Pediatric surge
- Pediatric Preparedness (PPT: 2 MB/26 slides)
Introduction to pediatric preparedness.
- Pediatric Planning Resources (PPT: 2.2MB/25 slides)
Resources available for pediatric mass casulty planning from MDH.
- Pediatric Mass Casulty Incident (PPT: 7.2MB/39 slides)
Overview for clinicians.
- Pediatric Preparedness Primer and Template Plan (Word: 1.1MB/55 pages)
Guidance for hospitals that do not usually provide pediatric trauma or inpatient services.
- Pediatric Priorities (PDF: 119KB/1 page)
Chart showing the steps to determining pediatric priorities.
- Pediatric Patient Training Scenarios (PDF: 35KB/4 pages)
Three scenarios to help your planning.
What's New
Subscribe to What's New in OEP
Public Health, Healthcare, and Behavioral Health Preparedness Regions and Teams
Updated January, 2013.
Ready to Respond Newsletter - November, 2012
Fungal meningitis, anthrax, climate change, mobile medical teams, suspicious packages, continuity challenge, and a national award for the public health lab.
Minnesota Mobile Medical Teams (MMT)
New fact sheet with pictures.
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