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Creator: Flinn, Jade B., Noreen A. Hynes, Lauren M. Sauer, Lisa L. Maragakis, and Brian T. Garibaldi.
Subject: Physical Infrastructure
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-09-04
Description: In response to the Ebola outbreak of 2014-2016, the US Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) established 10 regional treatment centers, called biocontainment units (BCUs) to prepare and provide care for patients… -
Creator: Jones, Rachael M., Susan C. Bleasdale, Dayana Maita, and Lisa M. Brosseau, for the C. D. C. Prevention Epicenters Program.
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-01
Description: Personal protective equipment (PPE) is a primary strategy to protect health care personnel (HCP) from infectious diseases. When transmission-based PPE ensembles are not appropriate, HCP must recognize the transmission pathway of the disease and… -
Creator: CDC
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2016-11-03
Description: CDC’s pandemic influenza preparedness efforts include ongoing surveillance of human and animal influenza A viruses, risk assessments of influenza A viruses with pandemic potential, and the development and improvement of preparedness tools that can… -
Creator: CDC
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Guide
Description: Guidance and tools to help school administrators make decisions, protect their students and staff, and communicate with their communities. Includes the Considerations for K-12 Schools: Readiness and Planning Tool.
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Creator: Predictive Healthcare team at Penn Medicine
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Hyperlink
Date Last Updated: 2020-03-16
Description: This tool was developed by the Predictive Healthcare team at Penn Medicine. For questions and comments please see their contact page. Code can be found on Github. You can join their Slack channel if you would like to get involved. Discrete-time SIR… -
Creator: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
Subject: General
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2019-02-01
Description: Memorandum Summary (CMS)Emergency Preparedness Requirements for Medicare and Medicaid Participating Providers and Suppliers: On September 16, 2016, the Emergency Preparedness Requirements for Medicare and Medicaid Participating Providers and… -
Creator: CDC
Subject: Intake and Internal Transport
Item Type: Checklist
Date Last Updated: 2019-08-02
Description: All U.S. healthcare facilities need to be prepared for new and emerging infectious disease threats such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV). All hospitals should be equipped and ready to care for a limited number of infected… -
Creator: NETEC
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2020-12-09
Description: This printable flyer infographic discusses the use of the HICS system with COVID-19. HICS helps hospitals prepare, mitigate, respond, and recover from an event that disrupts normal operations or threatens life, property, or the enivironment. -
Creator: Thomasian NM, Madad S, Hick JL, Ranney ML, Biddinger PD.
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2021-07-27
Description: The Hospital Surge Preparedness and Response Index is an all-hazards template developed by a group of emergency management and disaster medicine experts from the United States. The objective of the Hospital Surge Preparedness and Response Index is to… -
Creator: CDC
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Hyperlink
Date Last Updated: 2020-06-03
Description: A variety of infection control guidance for healthcare professionals about COVID-19: Guidance Infection Control Guidance Postmortem Guidance Guidance by Facility Type Alternate Care Sites Ambulatory Care Settings Blood and Plasma…Conservation strategies: This resource contains recommendations facilitating conservation of equipment and supplies during contingency (expected shortages) and crisis (known shortages) capacities and should not be applied as guidance when conventional capacities are available.