ODH Long Term Care Severe Adverse Weather Event Monitoring
While long term care providers have many systems in place to deal with adversity during emergency situations, the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) maintains a Long Term Care Severe Weather Event Hotline for nursing facility and residential care facility to directly contact ODH in the event that they are impacted by Hurricane Sandy or other weather events. Providers are strongly encouraged to contact the hotline if the facility is adversely impacted by the severe weather (e.g., sustained power outage, sustained generator use, landline phone disruption, building damage, evacuation, etc.). Callers should leave a facility contact person’s name and call-back number (mobile phone where necessary) so ODH staff can follow up. ODH is continuing to monitor a few facilities with ongoing utility outages resulting from recent wind storms, particularly in NE Ohio. If you are aware of any SNF, RCFs or ICFs/IID with ongoing power outage, please contact ODH to make sure they are added to the monitoring list. ODH Long Term Care Severe Weather Event Hotline: 866-688-3581.