Hospital Utilities Management
Preserving Critical Systems
Pre-Conference Session from the Disaster Planning for California Hospitals Conference (2013)
What Happens When the Taps Run Dry?Emergency Water Planning Best Practices Jim Siplon
Pre-Conference Hospital Utilities Planning Template
The Overview of System Failures Chart is a customizable template for hospital incident command and house supervisors to use in planning for various hospital system failures. It lists what will be affected when a system goes down, who the system failure will impact, key actions that should be initiated and primary planning partners.
Tools by Key Utility System
Below are examples of planning tools and established procedures from various hospitals that you may wish to summarize and incorporate into the Overview of System Failure chart, as appropriate for your own facility.
Multiple Systems
- Emergency Operational Impact Chart
- Engineering/Building Infrastructure and Systems Inventory
- Extended Preparedness — 96 Hour Critical Supplies and Strategies Assessment Tool
- System Failure Chart
- Utilities Hazard and Vulnerability Assessment Tool
Electrical Power
- Electrical Power Riser Distribution — Emergency Circuit
- Emergency Power System Support Priority Areas
- Loss of Power Checklists
- Power Failure Tool (Loss of Electrical Power and Loss of Emergency Generator Power)
Chillers
Steam
Water
Ventilation
Fuel
Piped Medical Gases
Contributors
CHA would like to thank the following organizations who generously shared their resources to develop this toolkit:
- Kaiser Foundation Hospital Manteca/Modesto, Kaiser Permanente
- Providence Holy Cross Medical Center, Providence Health & Services
- San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center
- Stanford Hospital & Clinics and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital
- Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento and California Pacific Medical Center, Sutter Health
- UCSD Medical Center, University of California San Diego Health System