Emergency Preparedness

Kern Medical Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) water is lost red bags will be placed in toilets for waste collection and disposed of properly.

3.7.7 Mortuary Service

• Kern County has developed a county wide mortality plan. The mortality rate during emergency conditions may increase due to casualties brought into the hospital. The hospital is only equipped for handling a minimal number of mortality casualties due limited morgue refrigeration units. The hospital has an ample supply of body bags to temporarily store casualties. The hospital will communicate with the county morgue and provide information relative to number of casualties that the county morgue wills pickup from the hospital. The Kern County Morgue is located immediately behind the hospital.

3.8 Acquiring Response Resources

The Logistics Section should carefully monitor medical supplies and pharmaceuticals and request augmentation of resources from ESF8C at the earliest sign that stocks may become depleted. The hospital will maximize use of available hospitals, other hospitals and other external resource suppliers as is feasible. 3.8.1 EOC Request Process 3.8.1.1 In the response to an incident, Kern Medical staff may require additional personnel, supplies, or equipment or an executive decision concerning the acquisition or disposition of a resource, or the expenditure of funds. Requests for assistance will be transmitted from the various areas of the organization via existing lines of communications to the EOC . The EOC will acknowledge the receipt of the request and, immediately address the need from current resources or incorporate the request into planning and priority setting processes. 3.8.1.2 The Logistics Section staff in the EOC may turn to external vendors for the resources or the ESF8C. 3.8.1.3 The ESF8C will seek resources to fill the request from within the County. If resources cannot be found and the request is high priority, it will be submitted to Regional, State, and Federal response levels until the requested resource can be obtained, all completed and attempted contact with local, state, tribal, regional, and federal emergency preparedness officials in its service area. As information develops about current and future resource needs, healthcare facilities should consider contacting vendors of critical supplies and equipment to alert them of pending needs and to ascertain vendor capacity to meet those needs. Kern Medical recognizes that in a major incident, medical supply vendors may face competing demands that exceed their capacity. In that case, request for assistance will be submitted to the Hospital Coordination System ( HCS), who will set resource allocation priorities. 3.8.3 Other Hospitals/ Hospital Coordination System (HCS) Kern Medical will notify hospitals with which it has mutual assistance arrangements. It will also notify the Hospital Coordination System (HCS) and request assistance if the HCS has a resource acquisition role. 3.8.2 Vendors

3.8.4 On site supplies

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