| 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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