Beyond the Binder: Turning CMS Emergency Preparedness Plans into Ready-to-Activate Response
What surveyors look for, where plans fall short, and how to be ready when part of your building goes down
December 1 at 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Every nursing home has an emergency preparedness plan. The harder question is whether that plan can be activated at 2:00 a.m. when a pipe bursts above a resident wing, the power fails in a heat wave, or part of the building becomes unusable. This session reviews the CMS Emergency Preparedness requirements for long-term care facilities, what surveyors ask to see, and where plans most often fall short. Participants will leave with practical steps to turn a written plan into a ready-to-activate response that protects residents and keeps operations running.
Session topics / learning objectives:
- Understand the core CMS Emergency Preparedness requirements for nursing homes, including the annual review, the all-hazards risk assessment and the twice-yearly exercises
- Identify common survey gaps and the documentation surveyors expect to see
- Apply practical strategies for pre-arranging response resources for physical-loss events such as water, fire, power and HVAC failures
COST
- Free
CEU INFORMATION
NC Nursing Home Administrators can earn up to 1.0 hour of continuing education. The North Carolina Health Care Facilities Association is a Registered Sponsor of continuing education with the NC State Board of Examiners for Nursing Home Administrators. Comments regarding the Registered Sponsor Course may be addressed to: NCBENHA, 3733 National Drive, Suite 110, Raleigh, NC 27612.
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