KCER: KIDNEY COMMUNITY EMERGENCY RESPONSE COALITION

Facility Operations

Team Leadership: Sue Rottura and Lawrence Park

Goals: Facilitate cooperative planning among the wide variety of dialysis facilities, ESRD Networks and community disaster planners, and assist with facility preparation, response and recovery efforts

Accomplishments: Developed document “Four Keys to Being Prepared for a Disaster” an abbreviated disaster planning tool focusing on four main topics. Added items to CMS Manual “Emergency Preparedness for Dialysis Facilities.” Created an Appendix of Forms from the CMS Emergency Preparedness manual in Word format to increase usability. Developed a “Dialysis Facility Disaster Planning Template” to help guide individual facilities through the disaster planning process. This template combines checklists submitted by committee members.

If you are interested in becoming a member of this Response Team, please read and sign the Facility Operations Team's Charter and either provide it to the Response Team leadership or acknowlege that you understand the Team's activities and your responsibilities as a volunteer.

Meeting Minutes

Team Resources and Tools

Find an open or closed dialysis facility at www.dialysisunits.com or hh.nephron.com from your mobile device

Industry Supplies and Services Sub-Team

Team Leadership: Mahesh Krishnan

Goals: To assist organizations in locating and securing industry supplies in the event of a large emergency.

Accomplishments: Coordination with other KCER subgroups to identify needs and available resources.

 

 
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