Healthcare Preparing for Flood and Other Facility Disruptions
Evacuation and shelter-in-place guidelines for hospitals and long-term care facilities, that can be used during flood or other disaster.
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.
Template and toolkit
- 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.
- 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.
- Long Term Care Evacuation Job Aid (PDF: 136KB/2 pages)
Threat assessment and decision tool.
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May 6, 2012: Operation Medicine Delivery
Testing the use of the postal teams to deliver emergency medicine.
Minnesota Mobile Medical Unit (MMU)
New fact sheet with pictures.
Public Health, Healthcare, and Behavioral Health Preparedness Regions and Teams
Updated March, 2012.
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