Disaster Planning Guide A Resource Manual

Disaster Planning Guide A Resource Manual for Developing a Comprehensive Preparedness Plan

This manual was developed by the Florida Disaster Preparedness Committee and the Florida Health Care Association. It is meant to be a reference tool to assist in the development and implementation of a disaster procedure manual and an emergency operations plan for your own facility. Because long term care facilities may differ greatly in their location, population, and structure, no single emergency management plan can be developed to fit all facilities. Potential disasters considered include: fires, tornados, bomb scares, hazardous accidents in the community, bio-terrorism, hypo- and hyperpyrexia, and hurricanes. It considers disaster plans with evacuation and without evacuation; transportation; housing; finance; insurance; and legislative and legal issues. It includes 22 appendices, including many checklists (implementation, administrator, supplies, evacuation, etc.). The text itself is general, but some of the appendices are specific to Florida; we have left them in as a model for the types of information you should try to include from your own state. Florida Health Care Association, 2005. Loose-leaf binder, iv + 151 pages.