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Hospital consulting for the domestic market was added in late 2008 based on deficiencies noted by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations in the area of emergency management. While it was cited that hospitals “...were not unprepared, they could definitely be better prepared than they are today”. ICDR experts prepare hospitals in four activities: mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. ICDR can provide the following services to hospitals:
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Disaster preparedness preparation for JACHO accreditation (domestic medical centers)
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Disaster preparedness preparation for JCI accreditation (international medical centers)
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Assessment of the Current Emergency Management Plan
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Conduct a Hazard Vulnerability Analysis for the Market Area
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Develop and Identify Procedures to Mitigate, Plan, Respond and Recover From High Priority Hazards
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Develop an Integration Plan Between the Hospital and Surrounding Communities Public Health and Public Safety Agencies
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Develop a Suitable Hospital Incident Command System (HICS)
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Train Hospital Staff in HICS
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Develop a Communication Process with Other Local Healthcare Organizations to Share Information During Emergencies
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Establish Backup Internal and External Communications Systems
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Development of Bioterrorism Protocols (and other CBRNE attacks)
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Scenario Development for Disaster Drills
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Monitor Required Disaster Drill Performance and Make Recommendations for Improvement
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Development of Chemical Isolation and Decontamination Protocols
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Design, development and implementation of hospital based Disaster Resilience Sections
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ICDR experts are not just hospital staff with expertise in the Environment of Care standards who adopted Emergency Management skills. Each ICDR expert has real world experience in managing large-scale disasters and multiple casualty incidents, either through many years of public safety, hospital experience, or through a combination of both.
Our experts have been on the front lines in Florida-1992 Hurricane Andrew; Boston-New York-1996 TWA Flight 800 crash; Turkey-1999 Mamara Earthquakes; Spain- 2004-3/11 Madrid train bombings; Indonesia-2004 Tsunami; Mississippi & Louisana-2005 Hurricane Katrina; Boston, New York and New Jersey 2001- 9/11World Trade Center disaster; Middle East-2002-2006-2nd Intifada Armed Conflict; Burundi-2002-2006-Civil War; Indonesia 2004-2006-Civil War; Taiwan-2009 Typhoon, and more recently the Haiti earthquake. They have also managed hospital Environment of Care activities and safety committees in large Integrated Delivery Networks, and have integrated disaster preparedness and response systems in small hospitals and large academic medical centers.
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