Disaster Preparedness

A disease outbreak. A terrorist attack. A mass casualty event. No one likes to think about the worst – but in healthcare, it’s our responsibility.

Surge capacity and mass casualty planning is critical – not just for public safety, but also for compliance with federal, state and local mandates. Guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) state that a hospital’s surge plan must address the ability to be prepared within four hours to care for 300 patients for a duration of at least 72 hours. In a large-scale event, each hospital must have the capability to:

• Increase staffing
• Rapidly assess its available bed status
• Make occupied beds available—especially in the ED, operating theatres, and critical care units.

If your facility had to accommodate a surge of incoming patients, do you have a tested, proven action plan to ensure success? How would you free up beds and other critical resources? In short, are you ready?

Premise provides the foundation for rapidly assessing and managing capacity, freeing up beds, and arranging for emergency conditions. You will have an instant view of currently available bed counts by type of bed, as well as potential bed counts after quick discharge or transfer of non-critical patients. Premise tracks and manages movement of current hospitalized patients, as well as location of incoming patients. Premise’s flexibility helps you address surge capacity response by providing key answers quickly:

• How many negative pressure rooms, telemetry beds, and critical care beds are available and can be available in 4 hours?
• Based on current and pending patient admissions, transfers and discharges, what will house-wide capacity be at 15:00 today?
• Where I can put surge capacity patients, while still accounting for demand coming from the Emergency Department and Surgery?

When the surge of patients does arrive, Premise captures key data, automates tracking, and facilitates matching billing and registration data to your facility’s ADT. Premise Bed Turnover and Transport completes the cycle by ensuring timely, efficient discharge and bed turns – enabling new patients to be placed in beds as soon as possible.

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