Essential Hospital Services Package

MANAGEMENT OF HOSPITALS IN HEALTH CRISIS ESSENTIAL HOSPITAL SERVICES PACKAGE
DRAFT 2 (15.04.2009)

GUIDANCE FOR EMERGENCY PLANNERS HEALTH EMERGENCY MANAGERS HEALTH RISK MANAGERS

Draft (2) 15 April 2009

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Essential Hospital Services Package Table of content
PART I. 1. 2. 3. The goals and the use of this document

To goals of this document The focus of this document. The concept of hospital essential services, especially during emergency situations and health crisis: Essential Hospital Services Packages (EHSP)

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The integration of hospital preparedness for health crisis into the overall health risk management framework of the Health Sector and into the global Health System framework.

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The two broad categories of hospitals in the perspective of readiness to respond to health crisis (from health emergency situations to major disaster) as discussed in this document

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PART II . Assessing the readiness and the present capacity of the hospital to respond to health crisis and recommendations for managing the response of the institution Section A. First priority components of the MC-ERP • Component 1. Management of the alert - activation of the Hospital Emergency Response Plan • Component 2. Hospital Incident Command and Management System – HICS • Component 3. Hospital disaster triage area (HDTA) and reception of patients in MCI & external traffic flow - the area for ambulatory treatment • Component 4. Emergency Department & Internal traffic flow - ED disaster box • Component 5. Management of Human Resources - staff call back redistribution - recruitment of extra-staff and volunteers • Component 6. Supplement Emergency Response Plans of the various Departments and Units of the hospital - SERP • Component 7. Logistics and supplies - Disaster stocks for the Health Sector • Component 8. Management of Information - Risk communication means - Health