Emergency Preparedness

Kern Medical Emergency Operations Plan (EOP)

• Kern Medical maintains on hand supplies that may be required for an extended emergency at all times. For those supplies with short shelf life and those that require continual replenishment, Kern Medical will contact supplier immediately upon suspecting the onset of an emergency and stock up for a minimum of 96 hours. The amounts and locations of current supplies have been evaluated to determine how many hours the facility can sustain before replenishing. This gives the facility a par level on supplies and aid in the projection of sustainability before terminating services or evacuating if supplies are unable to get to the facility. The processes for obtaining and replenishing those supplies once the par level has decreased have been identified. This includes a list of the vendors and contractors that deliver and manufacture the supplies • The plan consists of continually monitoring inventories required for an extended emergency and the aftermath of an emergency during the recovery phase. Kern Medical has a MOU with Pharmaceutical suppliers to replenish pharmaceutical supplies and equipment. Kern Medical also has access to local, state and federal stockpiles. To access these caches Kern County EMS would be notified of our shortages and they would notify the state and the state would notify the federal government as warranted. The Incident Commander will appoint a Communications Officer, who may be the Communications Coordinator, who will work under the Logistics Section and will use the hospital’s communications resources to communicate with: • The Emergency Support Function 8 Coordinator (ESF8C). • Emergency response agencies. • Outside relief agencies. • Hospital Coordination System. • Other hospitals. Contact Lists: • Telephone service providers and maintenance for the hospital’s internal telephone system, along with utilities are listed in Appendix J.2 – Basic Hospital Support. • Staff contact telephone numbers are listed in Appendix J.1 – Staff Call Back . • Incident response agency contact telephone numbers are listed in AppendixJ.4 – Incident Contacts. 3.9.2 3.9.3 Communication Procedures • See Appendix P.4 – Communications for communications procedures. • All external communications will be authorized by the Incident Commander or designee unless emergency conditions require immediate communications. • All outgoing and incoming messages will be recorded on message forms shown in Appendix O – Basic EOC Forms or in notebooks. • All incoming messages will be shared with the EOC Planning Section. 3.9.4 Notification and reporting (personnel. Medical staff, agencies) when emergency measures are initiated: • The Department Director’s or designee’s responsibility is to continually assess 3.9 Communications 3.9.1 Communications Officer

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