Health Care Provider After Action Report Improvement Plan |
This resource is an After Action Report Improvement Plan template and instructions, provided by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid. It is intended to be a user-friendly tool for healthcare providers to document their performance during emergency planning exercises and real emergency events. It is modeled after the US Department of Homeland Security's HSEEP program (Homeland Security Exercise & Evaluation Program), Vol. III AAR/IP, February 2007. For more resources on evaluating exercises, visit the TRACIE website and search in the Topic Collection for EVALUATION PROGRAM for additional resources on this topic. |
Training and Exercise |
Healthcare Active Shooter Planning (PowerPoint Presentation) |
This resource is a PowerPoint handout from a session conducted by Dr. Paul Ford at the Florida Health Care Association's annual conference in 2015. |
Planning and Response |
Help Your Employees Be Prepared - Personal Preparedness |
This is a link to the USA.gov page with many resources to help staff of LTC centers be more personally prepared when a disaster hits. Use these resources, plus tools from the American Red Cross, to help your staff be prepared. |
Planning and Response |
Hospital Preparedness Program Information Sharing Webinars |
The Florida Department of Health's Information-Sharing Webinars focus on new information, experiences, and best practices between Florida's health care system partners. This webpage contains information on upcoming webinars as well as recordings, slides, and supporting documents from past department's information sharing series. Past topics include fatality management and Ham radio operators. |
Training and Exercise |
LTC Shots Fired TTX Exercise |
The LTC Shots Fired tabletop exercise (TTX) wa developed by the New Jersey Health Care Association to test the capabilities of long term care facilities, including skilled nursing and assisted living facilities to respond to an Active Shooter event within their operations. The design and execution of the exercise followed HSEEP requirements. This document is the LTC Shots Fired TTX After Action Report / Improvement Plan and includes the exercise design as well as after action report information. |
Training and Exercise |
Medicare Learning Network |
This is a link to the Medicare Learning Network, where notices of National Calls and Webinars are listed as well as recordings of past national calls and webinars. A search tool provides a quick way to find Emergency Preparedness events, past, current and future. |
Training and Exercise |
NHICS: Nursing Home Incident Command System |
This resource, updated in 2017 by the California Association of Healthcare Facilities, provides a guide and extensive supporting documents and tools associated with the Nursing Home Incident Command System (NHICS), which can be used by facilities regardless of size or resident care capabilities, to assist with emergency planning and response efforts for all hazards. |
Training and Exercise |
Online Lesson: Long Term Care Facilities Emergency Preparedness Plans |
This 2 hour online course reviews the reasons for planning in long-term care facilities and who should be involved. The course explains the all-hazards model of emergency management planning, and the critical issues involved in preparedness planning. The Center for Public Health Preparedness offers e-learning on healthcare preparedness topics and other resources. |
Planning and Response |
Preparedness and Emergency Response Learning Centers - National Resource List |
CDC provides funding for 14 Preparedness and Emergency Response Learning Centers (PERLCs) across the U.S. These centers provide training to state, local, and tribal public health authorities within self-defined service areas and meet partners' unique workforce development needs in the area of public health preparedness and response; specialized training, education, and consultation. This CDC webpage provides links to each center. Many PERLCs have resources for long term care facilities. |
Training and Exercise |
Psychological First Aid - Field Operations Guide for Nursing Homes (Second Edition) |
Psychological First Aid - Field Operations Guide for Nursing Homes (Second Edition). |
Training and Exercise |
Ransomware Attacks on the Healthcare and Public Health Sector: A Message from the Secretary of Health and Human Services (2016) |
This resource is the June 20, 2016 letter from the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services regarding ransomware attacks on the healthcare and public health sector. Included is a U.S. Government inter-agency technical guidance document, "How to Protect Your Networks from Ransomware" with links to other cybersecurity resources. |
Planning and Response |
Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health |
The Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health is a database of links to disaster medicine and public health documents available on the Internet at no cost. Documents include expert guidelines, research reports, conference proceedings, training classes, fact sheets, websites, databases, and similar materials selected from over 700 organizations for a professional audience. Materials selected are from non-commercial publishing sources and supplement disaster-related resources from PubMed (biomedical journal literature) and MedlinePlus (health information for the public). |
Planning and Response |
Safe Evacuation Tabletop Exercise for Long Term Care Facilities (California) |
This guidebook will help Long Term Care facilities (LTC) evaluate their preparedness for an evacuation. This guidebook contains all the materials necessary to conduct a simulated evacuation using a tabletop exercise. No actual patient movement is involved. |
Training and Exercise |
Topic Collection: Workplace Violence (healthcare settings) |
The resources in this Topic Collection on the T.R.A.C.I.E website highlight some of the most current information and guidance that can assist emergency managers tasked with developing and maintaining workplace violence prevention programs and other guidelines to ensure the resiliency of their facilities. There is a specific category for Healthcare Settings. |
Planning and Response |
TRACIE (Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange) |
TRACIE is the acronym for the Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange, a website established June 2015 by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HSS), Office of the Assistant Secretary of Preparedness and Response (ASPR). TRACIE was created to meet the information and technical assistance needs of regional ASPR staff, healthcare coalitions, healthcare entities, healthcare providers, emergency managers, public health practitioners, and others working in disaster medicine, healthcare system preparedness, and public health emergency preparedness. TRACIE includes resources and information for all public health preparedness partners. |
Planning and Response |