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Personal 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.

    

Get Prepared in 21 Weeks

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Disasters can can change lives in the blink of an eye. Are you prepared?

When disaster strikes, help may be days away. This is just one reason why every household needs a disaster kit and a plan--being prepared will help you know exactly what to do when disaster strikes. 

So where do you start?  Right here!  Red Cross has developed a helpful tool that will help your family to get prepared in a series of small steps. Here's how it works:  Over the next 21 weeks, you'll build a customized disaster kit to fit the specific needs of your family. So start today... Prevent, Prepare and Respond for the unexpected - the Red Cross Way!

   

Totally Unprepared

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The Totally Unprepared website is the online hub of a statewide campaign to rally Californians to prepare for the next earthquake.

Resources at www.totallyunprepared.com include:

Totally Unprepared Social Media Links:

 

Personal Preparedness Resources for Hospitals

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A Citizen's Guide to Disaster Preparedness

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Immediately after an emergency, essential services may be cut-off and local disaster relief and government responders may not be able to reach you right away. Knowing what to do to protect yourself and your household is essential.

"A Citizen's Guide to Disaster Preparedness" will assist you in preparing for any kind of disaster and will provide specific information on emergency water and food recommendations as well as a recommencded disaster supply kit.

      

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 for Hospitals

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During disasters, people and animals are often displaced. Since employees may lack the means of taking care of their pets during a disaster, this can prevent employees from reporting to work.

To address this callenge, the attached document is a sample plan for coordinating an on-site employee animal shelter. Since the shelter locations are staffed and stocked, they can be better solutions than county shelters.  

   

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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