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
Meeting Minutes
Team Resources and Tools
Industry
Supplies and Services Sub-Team
Team Leadership: Mahesh
Krishnan
Goals: To create specific emergency supply policies for each vendor to replace goods at a patient level which would be activated in an emergency.
Accomplishments: Coordination with other KCER subgroups to identify patient needs.
