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Author:
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Mesa County Advanced Practice Center
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Year of Most Recent Update:
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2011
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Related Topics:
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Partnerships and Collaborations, Volunteer Management
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Suggested Audiences:
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Business/Community/Civic leaders, Health officials, Nurses (public health nurse), Physicians/Clinicians, Rural Public Health Professionals, Social Workers
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Product PHEP Capabilities:
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Capability 1: Community Preparedness, Capability 2: Community Recovery, Capability 7: Mass Care, Capability 10: Medical Surge, Capability 15: Volunteer Management, Capability 3: Emergency Operations Coordination
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Related APC Products:
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Goals and Objectives:
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GOALS
• Refine medical surge tools in a way that will enhance partnership-building.
• Make the use of medical and non-medical volunteers in public health and hospital activities more efficient.
• Simplify exercises and just-in-time training.
• Provide tools for volunteer management and integration into hospitals.
OBJECTIVES
• Communities will develop a local committee that coordinates emergency preparedness and response planning efforts among
the communities’ stakeholders.
• A Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP)-compliant training and exercise program will be created. This
program will develop a jurisdiction's target capabilities and make the most use of limited resources.
• The hospital, volunteer organization, and local public health agency will be prepared to use volunteers in a surge situation and
agree on how to integrate them into hospital operations.
• The local hospital or medical center will have a Joint Commission-compliant Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) that is up-to-date.
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Product Description:
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Foster relationships with community partners and incorporate volunteers into local preparedness and response.
This toolkit was developed to help hospitals and public health agencies integrate volunteer support into hospital inpatient, emergency department, and incident response operations through deployment of just-in-time training (JITT) and exercise curricula.
Contents include: training in Emergency Support Function 8 (ESF8) coordination; HSEEP-compliant training and exercise guidance; an EOP template; volunteer policies and procedures, just-in-time training, check-in procedures, and volunteer job action sheets which guide the integration of volunteers into hospital surge-response; and a planning guide which provides the directions for implementing the entire toolkit. This product has been continually evaluated throughout the course of its development using a variet of quality improvement methods.
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Contact Information:
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Mesa County Advanced Practice Center
Mesa County Health Department
510 29 1/2 Rd
PO Box 20,000
Grand Junction, CO 81504
Mariah McGlothlin
Asst. Project Manager
Email: MesaAPC@mesacounty.us
Phone: 970-683-6619
Fax: 970-248-6972
Website: http://health.mesacounty.us/APC2/index.cfm
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