Background
The NYSDOH OHEP and its emergency planning partners continue to streamline healthcare facility evacuation planning and enhance operations of the Healthcare Facility Evacuation Center (HEC).
The HEC is a NYSDOH led coordination center that centralizes support for an evacuation of hospitals, nursing homes, adult care facilities, veterans and psychiatric hospitals. The HEC supports evacuating and sheltering in place (SiP) healthcare facilities with information, bed availability and transportation resources, troubleshooting and the repatriation of healthcare facilities following an event.
Goal
To provide individuals who will be staffing the HEC with a training on how to operate within the HEC. Staff working within the HEC will also learn with whom the HEC interacts, local ESF-8 structures and other response partners. This will include the organization structure and command of the HEC, the software application and role specific training for staff serving in all HEC roles. Modules are as follows:
1. HEC Overview
2. HEC Application Overview
3. HEC Leadership Roles
4. HEC Triage Coordinators
5. HEC Bed Coordinators
6. HEC Transportation Unit