CMS Emergency Preparedness Checklist
Follow the steps in this CMS emergency preparedness checklist to make compliance simpler and more effective.
CMS Emergency Preparedness Planning Self-Assessment Results | Infographic
View an infographic with the results of a self-assessment where our website visitors rated their healthcare organizations’ readiness in 10 key areas of emergency preparedness planning.
CMS Emergency Preparedness Rule | Self-Assessment Quiz
Take this short self-assessment to identify the next steps you need to take to achieve best practices for hospital emergency preparedness, including compliance with the CMS Emergency Preparedness Rule. Receive your results and resources you can use based on your current level of emergency preparedness.
CMS Emergency Preparedness: Policies and Procedures for Continuity
The CMS emergency preparedness rule requires hospitals to cover these six critical factors in policies and procedures.
All-Hazards Risk Assessment: CMS Emergency Preparedness Rule
One of the fundamental changes in the requirements is the approach to risk assessment. The CMS emergency preparedness rule requires facilities to employ an all-hazards approach.
Workplace Violence in Hospitals: 10 Steps to Preparedness
Use this checklist to learn essential steps to take before an active shooter or other violent situation occurs in your hospital or healthcare facility, and how to respond in a workplace violence event.
Healthcare Emergency Preparedness Consulting Services
Every service is customized based on your needs and your goals. Assess your emergency management programs based on your needs, your type of facility, metrics relevant to your organization, your locale, your coalition and your jurisdiction.
CMS Emergency Preparedness Rule: Communication Plan, Collaboration & Continuity
Of all the elements of the CMS emergency preparedness rule, the communication plan may be the most important – and the most difficult. The CMS requires healthcare organizations to include these four vital pieces in the communication plan.
Physician Pager Replacement, Hospital Notification, and Disaster Management With One Communication Tool: Duncan Regional Hospital
Physician paging and disaster communications both require reaching people quickly and reliably. This case study explores how one hospital uses its disaster management system for tornadoes and wildfires for physician paging too.
CMS Emergency Preparedness: Training & Testing
Emergency preparedness training and testing of your emergency plans is a crucial part of the CMS rule. Drills and exercises prepare your staff for a disaster and give your organization’s leadership the opportunity to find problems in a low-stakes setting.
Hospital Emergency Management in a Hurricane with Virtual Hospital Command Center at Anne Arundel Medical Center
Anne Arundel Medical Center Prepares for Hurricane Opens hospital command center with emergency management app Anne Arundel is a crucial member of the healthcare safety net for any disaster or emergency in Annapolis, MD. In addition, the medical center has been named...
Health Management Technology: LiveProcess streamlines emergency preparedness for Ozarks Medical Center
LiveProcess Emergency Manager enables faster communication and response times across Ozarks Medical Center’s hospital, clinics, and home healthcare providers, which serve an eight-county area across two states.
LiveProcess Emergency Manager aligns with the CMS emergency preparedness rule
LiveProcess Emergency Manager Aligns with the CMS emergency preparedness rule Ensure compliance and continuity of operations for essential hospital functions when they are needed most. With LiveProcess you can meet the CMS emergency preparedness implementation...
6 Ways to Build Muscle Memory for Emergency Management in Healthcare
From Gartner’s February 2018 Market Guide for Crisis/Emergency Management Platforms (C/EMP), I identified six takeaways that I feel are especially meaningful for healthcare organizations. Specifically, here’s what I recommend you do to help ensure your staff is ready and able to use your emergency management platform in a crisis.
3 Ways Collaborative Communication Technology Improves Healthcare Delivery
Interdisciplinary healthcare teams have a primary role in improving communication, when provided with effective communication and collaboration tools. And the EHR is not the solution. Find out what is.
Healthcare Team Communication Tools to Reduce Nurse Burnout
Learn 3 ways clinical communication and collaboration technology, such as a healthcare team communication tool, can play a substantial role in providing support to nurses.
Report: Hospital Emergency Preparedness, Disaster Resilience and Collaboration
US hospitals lack collaborative competency and disaster resilience for large-scale emergency preparedness, says a two-year hospital emergency preparedness analysis by Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Read this blog post to learn about collaboration and the Framework for Healthcare Disaster Resilience.
Hospital Communication System Uses Structured Messaging to Reduce Toil in Healthcare Teams
Routine labor around communication has been reduced or eliminated at Methodist Health System, Learn about the clinical communication and collaboration solution implemented for day-to-day communication and health system emergency preparedness.
Improved Emergency Management and Day-to-Day Workflow with Structured Response Messaging: Methodist Health System
In this case study, learn how a healthcare system uses structured communication for better emergency response & communication for everyday hospital communications.
True Stories from Hurricane Harvey: Hospital Emergency Management for Severe Weather
This composite account reflects actual events in hospitals affected by Hurricane Harvey, and the measures they took to ensure safety and appropriate care.
LiveProcess Streamlines Emergency Preparedness for Ozarks Medical Center
Adoption of hospital notification system and healthcare emergency management platform decreases response times and simplifies emergency preparedness planning for the hospital, clinics and home health care services that make up Ozarks Medical Center.
CMS Emergency Preparedness Rule Takes Effect — Are You Ready?
With the November 15 deadline approaching, now is a good time for healthcare organizations to re-assess their compliance with the revised Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) emergency preparedness requirements.
LiveProcess to Provide Emergency Preparedness System to Penn Medicine
Contract for emergency management system for universal employee notification and two-way coordination will extend situational awareness across PennMed hospitals, ambulatory services and home health care services
CMS Emergency Preparedness for Healthcare Coalitions
Widespread natural and manmade disasters challenge the ability of communities to maintain continuity of healthcare services. Learn about how regional coalitions help healthcare facilities comply with CMS emergency preparedness regulations.
Planning for Collaboration: CMS Emergency Preparedness
When CMS drafted emergency preparedness regulations, it sought to address a “patchwork of federal, state, and local laws and guidelines.” The CMS emergency preparedness rule helps put all healthcare facilities on the same page, so they can more easily coordinate communication, resources, shelter and services.
US Hospital Uses Emergency Management System in Ransomware Attack
When this U.S. hospital was hit by a ransomware attack, they were prepared with the LiveProcess emergency management system already in place. LiveProcess remained fully functional and accessible, even when other systems failed.
8 Tips for Severe Weather Emergency Planning for Hospitals
The season for hurricanes, wildfires approaches. As you develop your severe weather emergency preparedness capabilities, consider these eight hospital emergency planning tips.
CMS Emergency Preparedness: Hospital Readiness for Likely Threats
Hospitals are required to conduct a hazard vulnerability assessment (HVA) and review it at least annually. The likelihood of each threat can help you to prioritize emergency planning, mitigation, response and recovery.
Preparing Your Hospital for a Severe Weather Emergency
In this white paper you’ll learn: 8 keys to severe weather emergency preparedness planning; the importance of involving partners, suppliers and regional emergency management coalitions; why you might want a COOP for CMS emergency preparedness requirements; how severe weather fits into an all-hazards vulnerability analysis (HVA); and 3 useful tools for your incident command team.
CMS Emergency Preparedness Rule: What You Need to Know Now
The date is set and the clock is ticking. Healthcare providers participating in Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) plans must implement all emergency preparedness regulations stipulated in the CMS emergency preparedness rule by Nov. 16.
Start Here: Hospital CMS Emergency Preparedness
You may be feeling overwhelmed by the hospital CMS Emergency Preparedness requirements for Medicare and Medicaid Participating Providers and Suppliers. Preparation for successful hospital emergency management is complicated — but manageable.
CMS Emergency Preparedness Compliance Checklist: 10 Critical Issues
CMS Emergency Preparedness Compliance: 10 Critical Issues Checklist for hospital emergency preparedness coordinators Developing and maintaining hospital emergency preparedness doesn’t have to be a daunting challenge — with the right guidance. This emergency...
Are You Ready for the CMS Emergency Preparedness Final Rule?
The date is set and the clock is ticking. Healthcare providers participating in Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) plans must implement all emergency preparedness regulations stipulated in the CMS emergency preparedness rule by Nov. 15.
Public Health Emergency Preparedness Agencies Connect on the Fly for Metro Drill: Indiana District 1
Public Health Emergency Preparedness District Replaces Emergency Management System During Drill Indiana District 1 instantly integrates with state department of health using LiveProcess when previous EM system fails When Indiana Health District 1 emergency management...Checklist: Responding to Workplace Violence in Healthcare
Checklist: How to Respond to Workplace Violence in Hospitals and Healthcare LiveProcess enables healthcare organizations to prepare for and effectively respond to any situation, including an active shooter, by: Offering multiple ways to mobilize hospital staff, law...
Emergency Preparedness Planning Guide for Hospital Executives
Emergency Preparedness Planning Guide for Hospital Executives Threats, risks and vulnerabilities can easily wreak havoc and cause unexpected service interruptions in a hospital. As a result, hospital emergency preparedness planning needs to: Assess organizational...
LiveProcess Delivers on CMS Emergency Preparedness Rule for Hospitals
LiveProcess Delivers on CMS Emergency Preparedness Rule for Hospitals Focus on continuity of operations in healthcare In September 2016, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule establishing comprehensive requirements for emergency...
Continuity of Operations Planning for Healthcare Organizations
Continuity of Operations Planning (COOP) for Healthcare Organizations, an eBook Business continuity for hospitals The Joint Commission’s Emergency Management Standards require that every hospital have an Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) to address response and recovery...
Big Emergency Management System (EMS) Results on a Small Budget: Tillamook Regional Medical Center, a Critical Access Hospital (CAH)
Tillamook Regional Medical Center uses LiveProcess Emergency Manager as a scalable one-stop solution for emergency preparedness. Find out how and why.
Hospital Emergency Response Coordination and Uptime During a Ransomware Cyberattack
A Large US Hospital Faces a Cyberattack Communication during a ransomware attack Across the US, hospitals are being hit by ransomware and other cyberattacks. Some facilities targeted by ransomware cyberattacks include our customers who benefited from having...
Virtual Hospital Command Center for Emergency Management in Severe Weather and Pandemics: Children’s Medical Center
Virtual Hospital Command Center for Emergency Management Managing a large-scale crisis and patient surge Only weeks after its LiveProcess implementation, Children’s Medical Center put the emergency management platform to the test during two storms — Hurricane Gustav...
Emergency Preparedness for Pandemics with Virtual Collaboration Solution for Emergency Management: Florida Hospital
Florida Hospital Case Study A fatal pandemic infection calls for instant response and coordination Infectious disease can spread across the world. In the event of a disease outbreak such as Ebola or Zika, hospital administrators, clinicians and staff must be equipped...Critical Access Hospital Cuts Incident Preparedness Event Planning Time in Half: Preston Memorial Hospital
