| Internal |
Patients
(no contact list) |
- Patients
- Patients’ families
- Visitors
- Community
|
Direct care HCP
(no contact list) |
- Physicians
- Nurses
- Allied health practitioners
|
| Clinical leadership |
- Medical and nursing
- Critical care
- Infectious diseases
- Obstetrics
- Pediatrics
- Radiology
- Surgery
- Trauma
- Allied health (OT/PT/RT)
- Emergency department leads
- Community infectious diseases physicians who would act as medical-technical
specialists in HIMT
- Volunteer services (facility and emergency response)
|
| Administrative leadership |
- Facility
- President/CEO
- Director of Nursing
- Chief Medical Officer
- Chief Safety Officer
- Risk Manager
- VP of Finance
- Communications
- Health Incident Management Team (HIMT):
- Incident Commander (IC)
- Public Information Officer (PIO)
- Liaison Officer (LO)
- Safety Officer (SO)
- Medical-Technical Specialist
- Operations Section Chief
- Planning Section Chief
- Logistics Section Chief
- Finance/Administration Section Chief
- Recovery coordinators
- Academics, if applicable:
- Dean of Students
- Student Health Medical Director
|
| Support services leadership |
- Infection prevention and control
- Environmental services
- Food services
- IT and health information systems
- Security
- Materials management
- Ethics
|
| Facility services leadership |
- Laboratory operations
- Microbiology
- Blood bank
- Other laboratory divisions as appropriate
- Dialysis
- Diagnostic imaging
- Occupational health and safety
- Ambulance services
- Pharmacy
|
| External |
| Public health/departments of health |
- Health Care Coalition (HCC): healthcare organizations and public health officials within a geographic area, conducts preparedness and surge capacity exercises, collaborates with Emergency Support Function (ESF)-8
- State/Territorial/Regional/Tribal
- Contacts at the local health department. These contacts can assist with contacting the state laboratory contacts or CDC.
- State epidemiologists
- Director of health and nursing leadership
- Public health laboratory leadership
- Federal
- Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
- CDC
- Laboratory Response Network (LRN): integrated network of state/local public health, federal, military, and international laboratories created to respond to bioterrorism, chemical terrorism, and other public health emergencies.
- 24/7 Emergency Operations Center (EOC) Watch Desk
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP): federal funded program to support regional healthcare system preparedness (9)
- Emergency Support Functions
- ESF-8 (Public Health and Medical Services)
- ESF-1 (Transportation)
- ESF-3 (Public Works and Engineering)
- ESF-5 (Emergency Management)
|
| Regional healthcare organizations/facilities |
- Health Care Coalition (HCC)
- Hospitals
- Post-acute care facilities
- Long-term care facilities
- Healthcare networks
- Designated specialty care centers
- Healthcare providers
- Clinical care centers
|
| Municipality leadership |
- Mayor
- EMS
- Fire and rescue
- Law enforcement
- Public works
|
| Unions |
Relevant union(s) based on facility |
| Non-governmental Organizations(NGO) contacts |
- Volunteer/donation supported organizations (examples Red Cross, Salvation Army)
- Faith based organization(s)
|
| Public and media (no contact list) |
Coordinated through PIO |