CMS Emergency Preparedness Exercise - SE Ohio

Emergency Preparedness Exercise for Healthcare Agencies

CMS Emergency Preparedness Rule Exercise Opportunity for Skilled Nursing, Ambulatory Surgical Centers, Continuing Care Retirement Communities, Dialysis Centers, Adult Care Homes, and Home Health and Hospice Care Service Providers.

Exercise Summary

Are you looking for an opportunity to meet your Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) exercise requirement? Join All Clear Emergency Management Group on July 29, 2019, for a healthcare-specific community-based, operations-based exercise to meet the exercise requirements within the CMS emergency preparedness rule. All Clear will provide an introduction to exercise design and then conduct a scenario-based interactive discussion that features a series of tasks that will meet the CMS exercise requirement. Each participating agency will receive a copy of the exercise documents and a comprehensive After Action Report (AAR) that can be used to demonstrate compliance for the CMS exercise requirement.

Exercise Objectives

1. Assess the impact a community-wide event would have on your agency operations.
2. Exercise internal and external communication plans to ensure continuity of patient care during an emergency.
3. Identify resources in the community that could assist with continuity of patient care during an emergency. 
4. Discuss your agency's continuity of patient care plan for existing and additional patients during an emergency. 

Exercise Facilitators

All Clear Emergency Management Group is an emergency management consulting firm which provides healthcare specific planning, training and exercises. All Clear's staff provides practical preparedness services to assist healthcare organizations prepare for and respond to emergencies.

Date and Time

July 29, 2019

Registration will begin at 8:45am and the exercise will be from 9:00am-1:00pm. Please plan to stay for the duration of the exercise. Your agency will not be added to the AAR if you do not stay for the duration of the exercise.

Location

Adena PACCAR Medical Education Center - Kenworth Auditorium
446 Hospital Road, Chillicothe, Ohio 45601 

Cost

Cost is $350 per person. Those registered on or before July 12, 2019 will receive a $50 Early Bird discount.

Questions

Please contact Ginny Schwartzer at GinnyS@AllClearEMG.com for questions about the exercise. For all other questions, including help with registration or to pay by check, please contact Elaina Skarote at ElainaS@AllClearEMG.com.

Cancellation and Refund Policy

All Clear reserves the right to cancel the exercise if minimum attendance is not met by July 19, 2019. Full refunds will be given to participants if canceled by organizers. If a participant cancels their registration on or by July 19, 2019, a full refund will be issued. Requests for cancellation and refunds must be made in writing to ElainaS@AllClearEMG.com.