Emergency Preparedness

Kern Medical Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) preparation required to meet that role. See Section 1.6 below .

1.5 Insurance Coverage The Chief Operations Officer, or designee, of Kern Medical will meet with insurance carriers to review all insurance policies and assess the facility’s coverage for relocation to another site, loss of supplies and equipment, and structural and nonstructural damage to the facility. 1.6 Kern Medical Emergency Response Roles 1.6.1 Kern Medical may play a variety of roles in responding to incidents including providing emergency medical care, providing temporary shelter and expanding primary care services to meet increased community needs created by damage to other health facilities. However, healthcare facilities are not equipped to respond definitively to all incidents. Kern Medical’s roles may be constrained by limited resources and technical capability and by the impact of the incident on the facility. Refer to Appendix E – Healthcare Response Roles and Requirements for a list of potential roles and the planning and preparedness requirements for meeting those roles. 1.6.2 As a part of its mitigation program, Kern Medical will identify the response roles it will prepare to perform following an incident. This decision will involve input from Kern Medical management and staff, the Kern Medical board of governors, and community and government emergency officials. Based on the findings of the risk assessment, Kern Medical will take the following steps to define the incident response roles for which it should prepare: • Assess the pre-incident medical care environment and the role Kern Medical performs in providing health services. • Assess Kern Medical’s resources including availability of staff to respond and ability of Kern Medical to survive intact. • Discuss potential response roles and findings of risk assessment with Emergency Support Function 8 Coordinator or Kern County Emergency Manager. • Obtain community input. • Obtain input from Kern Medical staff, especially medical and nursing directors, safety officer, and chief operating officer. • Present recommendations to its board of directors for consent, review, or ratification. Preparedness activities build organization capacity to manage the effects of emergencies should one occur. During this phase, the Kern Medical Executive Directors, Emergency Management Committee (EMC) and staff will develop plans and operational capabilities to improve the effectiveness of the Kern Medical response to emergencies. Specifically, Kern Medical will: • Develop / update emergency plans and procedures, including the Emergency Operations Plan. • Develop and update agreements with other community health care providers and with civil authorities. • Train emergency response personnel. • Conduct drills and exercises. 2 PREPAREDNESS 2.1 Introduction

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