Monday’s Poll: Disaster preparations
Yesterday, I spent a few hours doing an extreme makeover of my closet-out came the shorts and sundresses; in went the sweaters and jackets. This is a pretty routine practice for New Englanders in October.
What’s not routine for October is snow flurries, which we got yesterday afternoon. Immediately I started running down my mental snow-weather checklist: Where are my snow boots, is my snow brush and ice scrapper still buried in my trunk, where are my heavy gloves?
Bad weather is certainly something you want to be prepared for both at home and at work. At the AHME conference back in April, I attended a session presented by a New Orleans program director who saw his program through Hurricane Katrina. Disaster preparation was key in ensuring the highest level of patient care was maintained.
The ACGME Institutional Requirements mandate that an institutional disaster plan be in place, but programs should also have plans for dealing with blizzards, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, floods. . . whatever natural disaster is common to your area.
Does your program have a disaster protocol in place? Take our poll, but also leave a description of what your protocol covers in the comment box below.
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Julie McCoy
Julie McCoy is the associate editor for the residency market at HCPro, Inc.
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