2011 Statewide Medical and Health Exercise Emergency Medical Services Providers/Ambulance Providers Exercise design objectives focus on improving understanding of a response concept, evaluating emergency response procedures, identifying areas for improvement and achieving a collaborative attitude. Exercise planners are expected to tailor these objectives to their specific exercise needs and capabilities or develop additional objectives, as necessary. Target Capability: Communications Review/test the ability to establish and maintain communications with the operational area medical and health point of contact for guidance and protocols on response activities, including alterations in patient receiving sites. Determine/evaluate the providers’ ability to communicate with receiving facilities by alternate methods. Target Capability: Intelligence/Information Sharing and Dissemination Review/test the adequacy of the information management plans and technology for gathering intelligence and sharing information internally with employees. Review/test the ability to share resource capability and resource needs with the medical and health point of contact. Target Capability: Medical Surge Discuss/test the ability to prioritize, manage, and allocate resources, especially scarce resources, in an emergency event, including modification to existing staffing levels and schedules. Target Capability: Emergency Operations Center Management Determine/evaluate the need for the provision of a liaison to the operational area Department Operations Center or Emergency Operations Center.
2011 Statewide Medical and Health Exercise Emergency Medical Services Providers/Ambulance Providers Exercise design objectives focus on improving understanding of a response concept, evaluating emergency response procedures, identifying areas for improvement and achieving a collaborative attitude. Exercise planners are expected to tailor these objectives to their specific exercise needs and capabilities or develop additional objectives, as necessary. Target Capability: Communications Review/test the ability to establish and maintain communications with the operational area medical and health point of contact for guidance and protocols on response activities, including alterations in patient receiving sites. Determine/evaluate the providers’ ability to communicate with receiving facilities by alternate methods. Target Capability: Intelligence/Information Sharing and Dissemination Review/test the adequacy of the information management plans and technology for gathering intelligence and sharing information internally with employees. Review/test the ability to share resource capability and resource needs with the medical and health point of contact. Target Capability: Medical Surge Discuss/test the ability to prioritize, manage, and allocate resources, especially scarce resources, in an emergency event, including modification to existing staffing levels and schedules. Target Capability: Emergency Operations Center Management Determine/evaluate the need for the provision of a liaison to the operational area Department Operations Center or Emergency Operations Center.
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