Emergency Preparedness Planning
Prepare - Prevent - Respond - Recover
Key questions to ask yourself or your organization:
Do you have a plan?
Have you read the plan?
Have you exercised the plan?
Does your plan work?
Then ask yourself or your organization
How prepared do we need to be?
How prepared are we?
How do we prioritize efforts to close the gap?
ITS Medical Systems has the experience, expertise and resources required to assist you with your emergency plan assessment, development, exercising and evaluation utilizing a capabilities-based planning process.
- A comprehensive approach to an effective plan that can achieve your goals and capabilities
- Develop within an economic framework that necessitates prioritization and choice
- Identifies medical surge and mass prophylaxis capabilities which demonstrate effective integration among disciplines (Emergency management, EMS, Hospitals, etc)
- Emphasis on preparing for threats with the greatest risk of mass casualties, massive property loss, and immense social disruption, having significant national impact, requiring information sharing, resource coordination and assistance.
- Consequence Management Area Assessment/Risk Analysis
- Development of plans and capabilities suitable for a wide range of threats and hazards
- Focuses efforts on how to build and sustain programs and capabilities within and across jurisdictional boundaries
- Achieves and sustain risk-based target levels of capability
- Development of exercise objectives and milestones with supporting training plans
- Scenarios that will assess plans and training
- Participation requirements for identifying functional areas and internal/external levels of support based on goals and capabilities
- Immediate feedback on how well the exercise achieved the objectives/capability of YOUR Emergency Plan
- Assessment and validation of training requirements
- Operational Analysis
--Determined level of response IAW regulatory requirements
--Current capabilities:
--Outside external response capabilities
- Training competency
Planning: Only as effective as the last time the responsible agencies and community trained and rehearsed their plan.
