Emergency Preparedness

7. How the hospital will communicate with suppliers of essential services, equipment, and supplies during an emergency: Kern Medical has developed a list of purveyors, including vendors, contractors, and consultants The list is updated as needed, or at a minimum annually, and is maintained by the Materials Management Department. The Logistics Section Chief and Operations Section Chief shall work collaboratively to facilitate communication with vendors that may provide essential supplies, services, and equipment once emergency measures are initiated. 8. How the hospital will communicate with other healthcare organizations in its contiguous geographic area: The HCC will use normal methods of communication, e.g., phones (landline and cellular), email and text messages to communicate with other healthcare organizations, providing these services have not been interrupted. If communications have been interrupted, the HCC will communicate via redundant systems such as HAM (amateur radio) and SAT RAD phones located in the Disaster Resource Center. Quarterly meetings are held in Kern County with the Amateur radio organizations. Kern Medical incorporates HAM radios into drills. GETS (Governmental Emergency Telecommunications Service) cards are assigned to key members of the Emergency Management Plan. 9. How the hospital will communicate with other healthcare organizations in its contiguous geographic area regarding the essential elements of the respective command centers for emergency response: As appropriate, communicating the following information may be required between healthcare organizations: • Essential elements of the command structures and control centers for emergency response. • Names and roles of individual(s) in their command structures and the telephone number of their command center. • Resources and assets that could potentially be shared in an emergency response, such as beds, transportation, linen, fuel, personal protective wear, medical equipment and supplies. • If requested, and if in accordance with law and regulation, the names of patients and deceased individuals brought to the organization will be shared in order to facilitate re-unification 10. How the hospital will communicate with other healthcare organizations in its contiguous geographic area regarding the resources and assets that could be shared in an emergency response: To the extent possible, such information should be shared as part of planning efforts, or as soon as possible once the EOP has been initiated. The decision to transfer