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Staff Preparedness

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Disasters can occur in just a few seconds. Personal preparedness lessens the impact on families, on workplaces and on communities. Since hospitals play a particularly important role during community disasters, it is imperative that hospital staff understand the importance of personal preparedness.

Preparedness of hospital staff has a significant impact on the hospital’s ability to provide uninterrupted service to the community. Every hospital staff member has an important role in hospital operations and in the ability of hospitals to provide care to the community regardless of circumstance.

Personal preparedness has a direct impact on the effectiveness of the hospital during critical times. Hospital staff can focus on their jobs if they are prepared at home and have planned for the safety and well-being of their family during a disaster.

Learn about vulnerability to natural hazards in your neighborhood by visiting http://myhazards.calema.ca.gov/ and getting a customized report based on your home's address.

    

Personal Preparedness Challenge 2010

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Are you prepared?

Emergencies and disasters can happen anytime and anywhere. They typically strike without warning and disrupt hundreds of thousands of lives each year. Each emergency and disaster has its own lasting effects on individuals, families, and communities. Through preparedness efforts, you can help reduce the fear and anxieties related to these unknown situations as well as reduce the immediate and long term risks to you and your families by preparing you and your loved ones for the best response possible to a real disaster situation. Remember, awareness and preparedness will save lives!

The Office of Emergency Preparedness at UCLA Health System has developed a tool entitled "Get Ready, Stay Ready" which provides a comprehensive 12-month guide for assisting families with their personal preparedness efforts.

  

FEMA Encourages Individuals to "Resolve to be Ready"

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With the New Year approaching, the Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Ready Campaign is reminding Americans to Resolve to be Ready in 2010. Resolve to be Ready is an annual initiative encouraging individuals, families, businesses and communities to make
preparedness a part of their New Year resolutions.

 

Pet Care Disaster Plan

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This sample plan outlines a process for housing pets on hospital grounds during a catastrophic event or disaster. During disasters, people and animals are often displaced. Employees may lack the normal means of taking care of their animals, which may prevent them from reporting to work. This document will assist in coordinating locations for an on-site animal shelter. These locations are staffed and stocked so they are
better solutions than county shelters.  Should the Hospital Incident Command determines the need to
house and care for pets for the patients or staff on site, a process is outlined in this plan.

   

Family Preparedness

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Make sure your family has a plan in case of an emergency. Before an emergency happens, sit down together and decide how you will get in contact with each other, where you will go and what you will do in an emergency.Keep a copy of this plan in your emergency supply kit or another safe place where you can access it in the event of a disaster.

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