CMS and Emergency Preparedness Rule Implementation Date is Approaching

• Inpatient Facilities: Hospitals, Critical Access Hospitals, Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities, Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities, Religious Nonmedical Health Care Institutions Long Term Care Facilities, and Transplant Centers
• Outpatient facilities: Hospice, Ambulatory Surgical Center, Program for the All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly, Home Health Agencies, Comprehensive Outpatient Rehabilitation Facilities, Community Mental Health Centers, Organ Procurement Organizations, Rural Health Clinics/Federally Qualified Health Centers, End Stage Renal Disease Facilities, and Clinics, Rehabilitation Agencies, and Public Health Agencies as Providers of Outpatient Physical Therapy and Speech-Language Pathology Services

Four Core Elements of Emergency Preparedness

• Risk Assessment and Emergency Planning (Include but not limited to):
  • Hazards likely in geographic area including man made (all hazards approach)
  • Care-related emergencies
  • Equipment and Power failures
  • Interruption in Communications, including cyber attacks
  • Loss of all/portion of facility
  • Loss of all/portion of supplies
  • Plan is to be reviewed and updated at least annually

• Communication Plan
  • Complies with Federal and State laws
  • System to Contact Staff, including patients’ physicians, other necessary persons
  • Well-coordinated within the facility, across health care providers, and with state and local public health departments and emergency management agencies.

• Policies and Procedures
  • Complies with Federal and State laws

• Training and Testing
  • Complies with Federal and State laws
  • Maintain and at a minimum update annually