Medical Surge Plan Example

Keywords / Description:

This 42-page plan was developed in order to guide the orderly response to a medical surge incident (including pandemic influenza) in a small rural/urban California county. In particular, the plan is intended to provide the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) Medical/Health branch staff with information and guidance to effectively plan for, organize, and manage the medical response to a surge incident.

Appendices include:

Surge definitions
Legal authorities
Emergency contact information
Incident response guide for surge response
Surge measures for healthcare facilities
Incident response guide for implementing surge response
Incident response guide for monitoring surge response
Incident response guide for recovery from surge
Strategies for expanding staff throughout the county
Alternate Care Site (ACS) patient criteria policy
Acronyms
Activation and surge capacity matrix
Stanislaus County EMS/hospital system saturation policy
Medical-health surge plan notification algorithm

This plan was submitted as part of an H1N1 Story from the Field. The story is available here: http://www.naccho.org/topics/H1N1/h1n1story.cfm?story_id=259

Toolkit:

Influenza Toolkit

Keyword Area:

Incident Command System, Pandemic Influenza, Surge Capacity

Jurisdiction:

Institutional Author:

Stanislaus County Health Department, CA

Submitted:

02/02/2010

Modified:

02/03/2010

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