Review of your program for TJC, NFPA, NIMS and state compliance (SEMS) and good disaster management practices. Is your Hazard Vulnerability Analysis sound and do your written response plans address priority emergencies in a detailed and comprehensive manner? Does your Emergency Management Program (EMP) address all four phases of emergency management and does your Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) address the six critical areas of emergency response for each priority emergency? Do equipment, supplies, training, exercises and memorandums of understanding reflect your priority emergencies? Have you completed a thorough 96-hour assessment for critical functions and your priority emergencies? Are leadership/physician involvement, funding and staffing adequate and documented? Do you have comprehensive and thorough surge capacity, shelter-in-place, evacuation, decontamination, mass-fatality and flu pandemic plans? Has your EOP been updated to reflect lessons learned from recent exercises? Is it clearly organized and written in plain English with minimal use of acronyms.

We can assist you with your program goals and objectives, action plans, inventory management and annual evaluations.

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Customized Plans

We helped develop the first HEICS-based Disaster Manual in 1993 for a California hospital system. Since then, we have written many EMPs/EOPs, customized to the particular codes and response plans of each facility. We review existing procedures and processes, recommend best practices and use flowcharts, checklists and graphics to create well-organized and effective go-to manuals. With our knowledge of Facilities Management we ensure utility failure plans are thoroughly addressed from both the hospital-wide and engineering perspectives. We have written manuals for large and small facilities, merged organizations and multi-campus medical centers. We also develop Quick Response Guides in a variety of formats; the most popular is a full-size 16 page piece that hangs on a bulletin board.

We have also developed the following templates (funded by Santa Clara County Public Health Department):

• Hospital Surge Capacity Plan 2007 (chosen as a model practice by the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO).
• Medical Evacuation and Shelter-in-Place Plan, 2009
• Drive-Through Triage for Pandemic Flu, 2009 (develop in conjunction to Stanford Hospital)
• California Statewide Patient Movement Plan

Let us help update your plans to current best practices.

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Exercises

Cameron Bruce Associates helps hospitals with all aspects of planning, conducting and evaluating all types of exercises: tabletop, drill, functional and full-scale. Whether following HSEEP guidelines or not we will assist with the planning and prepare all documents for a realistic well-organized exercise. During the planning phase we help by facilitating planning meetings, evaluating potential scenarios, developing exercise documents and coordinating with third-parties. We research the selected scenario and develop scripts to include realistic timeframes and impacts. We act as controller and evaluator, facilitate and document the hot wash and draft the after-action/improvement report. Are you prepared to address the tough new standards that took effect in 2009.

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Training Programs

We develop and provide training programs for all areas of emergency management. We can supply custom materials for your own trainers to use or we can provide the training.

• ICS, HICS, NIMS, and SEMS training
• Decontamination and WMD training
• Community workshops targeting a specific facility type (hospitals, SNFs, clinics)
• In-house workshops on your organization's new or existing plans
• Specific training and tabletop or "mini" drills for individual departments (NICU, Engineering, Security, Nursing Administration, etc.) on specific topics (utility failures, hazmat incidents, surge, active shooter)
  

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