The Emergency Management Compliance Manual: A Guide to the Joint Commission Standards helps you cut through the confusion related to the new emergency management chapter of the Comprehensive Accreditation Manual for Hospitals (CAMH) and provides best practices to help you prepare for 2009.
The Emergency Management Compliance Manual helps you to:
- Understand the strategies of emergency management
- Define an emergency and complete a hazard vulnerability analysis (e.g., EM.01.01.01)
- Develop an emergency operations plan that addresses the six critical areas (e.g., EM.02.01.01 through EM.02.02.15)
- Conduct emergency management exercises (e.g., EM.03.01.01)
This brand new chapter changes the way hospitals look at emergency management, and if you haven’t heard from your CEO about it, you will. This manual and CD-ROM set has the answers you need to be prepared for the challenges that lie ahead.
Trusted safety professional and author Thomas J. Huser, MS, CHSP, strategically outlines the new changes and provides his expertise through compliance tips and advice. Safety officers and emergency management coordinators alike will use this reference on a daily basis to create policies and procedures to comply with this new chapter.
Bonus CD-ROM included with your binder
The accompanying CD-ROM contains electronic versions of all the forms and tools, making it easy for you to download and customize them to meet your facility’s unique needs.
A customizable tool that you’ll refer to daily
This manual is packaged in a portable 10 x 11 binder so you can simply snap it open to add your own documents and policies. It’s never been easier to customize a resource to fit the needs of your facility.
About the author:
Thomas J. Huser, MS, CHSP, is a safety coordinator for a healthcare system in Indianapolis. He’s a health and safety professional with more than 23 years of healthcare and public safety experience. Huser’s specific responsibilities include emergency preparedness and hazardous materials. Huser has published over 13 articles in the
Journal of Healthcare Security on topics including: disaster drill planning, emergency decontamination, the incident command system, and the hazard communication program. He has authored four editions of HCPro’s
The Environment of Care Manual and has presented at Ascension Health Safety Conference in 2000, 2001, and 2002, NFPA World Safety Conference in 2003, and the National Earthquake Conference in 2004.
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