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    This document discusses hospital disaster management. It begins by defining a hospital disaster as an event that overwhelms a community's healthcare capacity. It then outlines the impacts of disasters like death, infrastructure damage, and inability to provide care. Disasters are classified as slow-onset like droughts or rapid-onset like earthquakes. Hospitals must plan for both internal disasters like infrastructure failures and external disasters like floods. Effective disaster management requires prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery with coordination between hospitals and other agencies. The planning process involves assessing risks, assigning roles, developing systems and procedures, training personnel, and regularly testing and updating plans.

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    This document discusses hospital disaster management. It begins by defining a hospital disaster as an event that overwhelms a community's healthcare capacity. It then outlines the impacts of disasters like death, infrastructure damage, and inability to provide care. Disasters are classified as slow-onset like droughts or rapid-onset like earthquakes. Hospitals must plan for both internal disasters like infrastructure failures and external disasters like floods. Effective disaster management requires prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery with coordination between hospitals and other agencies. The planning process involves assessing risks, assigning roles, developing systems and procedures, training personnel, and regularly testing and updating plans.

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    This document discusses hospital disaster management. It begins by defining a hospital disaster as an event that overwhelms a community's healthcare capacity. It then outlines the impacts of disasters like death, infrastructure damage, and inability to provide care. Disasters are classified as slow-onset like droughts or rapid-onset like earthquakes. Hospitals must plan for both internal disasters like infrastructure failures and external disasters like floods. Effective disaster management requires prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery with coordination between hospitals and other agencies. The planning process involves assessing risks, assigning roles, developing systems and procedures, training personnel, and regularly testing and updating plans.

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    This document discusses hospital disaster management. It begins by defining a hospital disaster as an event that overwhelms a community's healthcare capacity. It then outlines the impacts of disasters like death, infrastructure damage, and inability to provide care. Disasters are classified as slow-onset like droughts or rapid-onset like earthquakes. Hospitals must plan for both internal disasters like infrastructure failures and external disasters like floods. Effective disaster management requires prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery with coordination between hospitals and other agencies. The planning process involves assessing risks, assigning roles, developing systems and procedures, training personnel, and regularly testing and updating plans.

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    The key takeaways are that hospital disaster management involves being prepared to effectively respond to both natural and man-made disasters that can overwhelm the hospital's capacity and ability to provide healthcare. It requires planning, training personnel, and having systems and procedures in place.

    Disasters can be classified as slow/insidious onset like droughts or HIV/AIDS, or sudden/rapid onset like earthquakes, floods or fires. For hospitals, disasters can be internal like structural issues or functional issues, or external like floods or mass casualty incidents.

    The main steps involved in the planning process are: establishing a planning committee, conducting hazard risk assessments, setting objectives, determining responsibilities, analyzing resources, developing systems/procedures, writing the plan.

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    WHAT IS HOSPITAL DISASTER


    MANAGEMENT ?
    When the destructive effects of nature or manmade
    forces overwhelm the ability of a given
    area/community to meet the demand for healthcare
    OR
    Any occurrence that causes damage, economic
    disruption, loss of human life and deterioration in
    health and health services on a scale sufficient to
    warrant an extraordinary response from outside the
    affected area or community.

    THE IMPACT
    Disasters have a significant impact upon the community, people,
    infrastructure and upon the resources required to respond
    effectively.
    Disasters produce long-term problems pertaining to recovery
    and rehabilitation. They usually overwhelm the capacity of
    the community, its resources and infrastructure.
    Disasters produce death, injury and disability!
    Inability for an institution to return to normalcy post event
    without external assistance.
    Generally, the term disaster refers to a natural event in
    combination with its damaging effects eg. Loss of life and
    limb, destruction of infrastructure, inability to provide
    adequate healthcare, etc.

    DISASTER CLASSIFICATIONS
    Slow/insidious onset OR Creeping Disasters
    Drought
    HIV/AIDS
    Sudden / Rapid Onset
    Earthquakes
    Tornadoes
    Floods
    Fires
    Strike Action ..
    In the case of healthcare facilities, disasters can be either
    internal and/or external.

    DISASTER CLASSIFICATIONS
    Internal:
    Structural (Building, Oxygen, Electricity, etc)
    Functional (Strike action, Surge of patients, etc)
    External:
    Floods
    Mass Casualty Incidents
    Natural & Human induced disasters continue to strike and
    increase in magnitude, complexity and economic impact.
    Worldwide, the poor and socially disadvantaged groups
    suffer most from disasters and are usually least equipped
    to deal with them.

    DISASTER
    If readiness (and capacity) is Insufficient
    If vulnerabilities are too great,
    If the scale of hazard is too big, Then, the risk is too high,
    emergencies may not be managed locally, the
    communities may not cope, and DISASTER will occur.

    DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT


    Hospital planning should ensure that special interest groups
    within the community are included in disaster risk
    management and preparedness plans
    - Rural communities
    - Aged persons
    - Women
    - Children
    - Disabled persons
    - Mentally ill persons
    - Refugees
    - Homes for the aged
    - Homes for the disabled
    - Informal settlements

    ALL HIGH RISK HAZARD APPROACH


    An agreed set of arrangements encompassing
    all high risk hazards/vulnerabilities, both
    natural and man-made.
    Rather than developing different plans and
    procedures for each hazard a single set of
    management arrangements (Hospital Major
    Medical Incident Management System) should
    be and applied to all the hazards a community
    is facing.

    COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH
    1. Prevention & Mitigation
    Vulnerability reduction and mitigation through programs such as
    socio-economic activities and addressing root causes.
    Regulatory and physical measures to prevent disasters from
    occurring, or to mitigate their effects.
    2. Preparedness
    Plans and programs, systems and procedures, training and
    education to ensure that when and if disasters do occur,
    resources (personnel and equipment) can be mobilized and
    deployed efficiently and effectively.
    3. Response
    Actions taken leading up to and immediately after the impact of a
    disaster to minimize the effects, and to provide immediate
    rescue, relief and support to the community.
    4. Recovery
    The long-term restoration and rehabilitation of an affected
    community. It's a complex and protracted process, taking many
    years . Recovery activities should be connected with prevention
    and mitigation

    INTEGRATED APPROACH
    Effective disaster risk management requires an
    active partnership between all relevant agencies
    and authorities.
    It means that all organizations with a role to play
    have to work together in managing risk
    reduction.
    A cooperative and integrated working
    relationship is essential.
    The entire system needs to operate with a
    common goal: local up to national and vice-versa.

    DISASTER MITIGATION IN HOSPITALS


    Improved design of new healthcare facilities
    Retrofitting of old healthcare facilities
    National policy & guidelines
    Hospital Disaster Preparedness Plan
    Testing the plan
    Revising & updating the plan
    Vulnerability Analysis

    PROCESS OF DISASTER PREPAREDNESS PLANNING

    Disaster preparedness planning is a continuous


    process
    Written hospital preparedness plans must be
    dynamic in order to be effective
    Training needs to be done regularly
    Plans need to be exercised regularly
    Plan reviewed and amended in light of those
    events/exercises.

    PROCESS OF DISASTER PREPAREDNESS PLANNING


    The planning process is the production of a
    written plan, but it is the process that is critical.
    People must work together
    Identify hazards and their potential
    Assess the vulnerabilities of the hospital
    Understand the roles and responsibilities of
    each department and other agencies
    Develop emergency systems and procedures

    THE PLANNING PROCESS

    Step 1 : Leadership resolves to plan


    The authority to develop an emergency preparedness
    plan within the healthcare facility should be
    established.
    Step 2 : Establish planning committee
    Representatives of each hospital department
    Representatives of the community health system
    including public health and mental health
    External emergency services such as the Emergency
    Medical Services, Police Service, Military Health
    Services and Fire/Rescue Services, to name but a few.

    THE PLANNING PROCESS

    Step 3
    Conduct hazard risk assessment
    Analysis of hazards (internal and external to the hospital)
    A detailed hospital vulnerability analysis to determine the scope
    and priorities for planning
    Hazard risk assessments continue throughout the planning process
    and are constantly monitored and evaluated for any changes
    Step 4
    Set planning objectives
    Based on the results of the risk analysis
    Identify the disaster management strategies agreed upon by the
    committee

    THE PLANNING PROCESS

    Step 5
    Determine responsibilities
    Sorting of the responsibilities of hospital departments and personnel
    Other health agencies in the community (State, Private and NGOs)
    Tasks must always be allocated to people and organizations who are
    capable of carrying them out effectively and efficiently
    Step 6
    Analyze resources
    Identify what facility will require, rather than identifying at what it has.
    If a gap/s exist, the planning committee must identify sources of personnel
    and equipment which can be called upon speedily and efficiently
    Mutual aid agreements with other health care facilities within the
    immediate area and/or region must be implemented

    THE PLANNING PROCESS

    Step 7
    Develop systems and procedures
    Identify its strategies for prevention and mitigation, preparedness,
    response and recovery from mass casualty incidents and disasters.
    communication systems, public information, education, relations
    (P.I.E.R), and resource management systems. HOSPITAL MEDICAL
    INCIDENT MEDICAL MANAGEMENT & SUPPORT
    Step 8
    Write the plan
    The document must be distributed to all who will use it, both internal
    and external role players
    The document must be simple and straightforward
    Or people won't read it and/or understand it.

    THE PLANNING PROCESS


    Steps 9 & 10
    Train personnel - Test plans, personnel and procedures
    This is the critical foundation of emergency preparedness
    Response activities will require personnel to function outside of their normal
    day-to-day roles and responsibilities and;
    To assume tasks with which they are less familiar and that must be carried
    out within a highly stressful environment.
    Personnel must be trained and regularly tested in their emergency
    management tasks
    Personnel need the opportunity to practice their emergency management
    roles and responsibilities
    Reviewing the Plan :
    A plan which has not been tested and reviewed may be worse than no
    plan at all - it can build a false sense of security in the healthcare facility
    about its level of preparedness

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