{"ref":"CA-HSP-EP-01","title":"Emergency Preparedness Program","category":"Emergency preparedness","summary":"Sets out the Agency's all-hazards emergency preparedness program for California's real risks (wildfire and smoke, earthquake, Public Safety Power Shutoffs, extreme heat, floods, pandemics and system outages): the risk assessment, each patient's emergency plan and priority level, staffing and continuity of operations, the communication plan, protecting records, keeping the two-hour in-person nursing response going, training at least every two years and exercises at least every year, and review of the whole program at least every two years.","inShort":["Every patient has an emergency plan and a priority level. Patients on oxygen or other powered equipment are called first.","When a power shutoff, evacuation warning or other emergency is announced, check in with the Agency and follow the disaster coordinator (Avery Sample).","Help families sign up for power shutoff alerts and plan where they would go if they must leave.","If the electronic record is down, document on paper and keep going.","Never drive into an evacuation zone, past a road closure or into unsafe smoke or flooding."],"primaryCitation":"42 CFR §418.113","citations":["22 CCR §74880(d)(4)(A), (e)(1)(A)","22 CCR §74820(a)-(b)","22 CCR §74896(k)","22 CCR §74900(a)(3), (a)(5)"],"federalCitations":["42 CFR §418.113","45 CFR §164.510(b)(1)(ii), (b)(4)"],"surveyorAsks":["Show me your risk assessment. Which hazards did you rank highest, and why?","How do you know which patients depend on electricity, and what do you do when a Public Safety Power Shutoff is announced?"],"forms":[{"ref":"CA-HSP-EP-01-A","title":"Emergency Plan Review, Exercise and After-Action Record"},{"ref":"CA-HSP-EP-01-B","title":"Patient Emergency Plan"}],"headings":["Terms of Reference","1. Purpose","2. Scope","3. Definitions","4. Policy Statement (42 CFR §418.113; 22 CCR §74880(d)(4)(A))","5. Risk Assessment (42 CFR §418.113(a))","6. Patient Emergency Plans and Priority Levels","7. Policies and Procedures (42 CFR §418.113(b))","8. Communication Plan (42 CFR §418.113(c))","9. Activation and Response","10. Recovery and Evaluation","11. Training and Testing (42 CFR §418.113(d))","12. Responsibilities","13. Records and Compliance Monitoring","14. Staff Training","15. References","16. Related Policies and Forms","17. Approval","18. Revision History"],"version":"1.0","sample":false,"pack":"ca-hospice","state":"California","service":"Hospice","guides":[{"path":"/guides/hospice-policies/","h1":"What policies are required for hospice?"},{"path":"/guides/hospice-conditions-of-participation/","h1":"Hospice Conditions of Participation: which policies each one needs"}],"agency":{"name":"Sample Agency","legalName":"Sample Agency, LLC","logo":null}}