What
are Community Partners?
In
July 2008, KCER mailed 450 Community Partner Packets
to state and federal emergency management, centers for public
health preparedness, and other key stakeholders in disaster
planning and response.
Educating
stakeholders is vital to ensuring thorough preparedness and
efficient response in the kidney community. Please feel free
to download the Community Partner Packet contents to promote
education in your community!
Community
Partner Packet:
Community
Partner Meeting Resources
Collaboration
between dialysis facilities and their local emergency management
agency isn't just a Condition for Coverage, it's a best practice
to ensure emergency management knows and understands the needs
of the kidney community in your area. You can use these resources
to conduct a disaster drill so that both dialysis providers
and emergency management officials are ready to respond in a
disaster.
SURVIVING
THE STORM: DISASTERS AND DIALYSIS (August 3,
2009; Dallas, Texas) was a forum to ensure effective preparedness
and efficient response to disasters impacting kidney dialysis
and transplant patients and facilities.
This conference focused on special requirements of dialysis
and transplant patients, inclusion of the ESRD population in
emergency and disaster plans, applying national emergency management
principles to dialysis/transplant, disaster education to advance
the quality of care, and weather service resources available
to the kidney community.
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Surviving
the Storm Final Report (pdf)
SURVIVING
THE STORM presentations and handouts:
-
Entire
Presentation (pptx
- ppt
- pdf)
*files are very large, may take some time to download
Conditions
for Coverage - Many of the stakeholders attending are
non-ESRD and may not be aware of the requirements that ERSD
facilities must fulfill for disaster preparedness. The beginning
of the meeting will explain ESRD, the ESRD Network Program,
the importance of disaster preparedness for ERSD and the KCER
Coalition.
Patient
Education - Because teaching patients effectively saves
lives! This presentation stresses the importance of patient
education for ESRD and disaster preparedness.
Medical
Reserve Corps - The MRC helps organize local healthcare
workers into volunteer groups. Remember, all disasters
are local. The Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) better
prepares communities and health industry volunteers to respond
to emergencies. In a disaster, your local MRC is already on-scene
and will probably be the first responders to the emergency.
This presentation emphasizes the MRC role and outlines how local
volunteers help their communities.
Incident
Command System - ICS for Healthcare was presented to
ensure all attendees could gain certification. Being trained
in ICS also helps the kidney community align with national response
plans, language, and policies regarding how disasters are handled.
The goal of this presentation ensures attendees can better understand
emergency management organization and practices. Take the ICS-100.HC
final exam in order to obtain your FEMA certificate.
National
Weather Service - The NWS presented tools and resources
available for the community to make local decisions. The presentation
focused on understanding how severe weather can impact ESRD.