Prepare Your Clinic
The best time to plan for a disaster is before it happens. Preparedness requires you to thinking about emergencies, discuss potential situations within your team, document your planned response, and regularly review your plan by practicing your response. Planning will build resiliency and should enable you to assist your patients and get back to normal much sooner.
We have created a guidebook and workbook for health care clinics to develop their own emergency preparedness and response plans.
Emergency Management Guidebook for Health Care Clinics
This guide will provide you with information to assist you in completing the associated workbook. This plan helps ensure that you will be able to take care of your staff and patients, reopen your office, and get back to provide care to your patients in an emergency.
Emergency Management Workbook for Health Care Clinics
This fillable PDF Workbook covers the following key elements:
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Evacuation Plan
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Shelter in Place Plan
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Incident Recovery Plan
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Practice drills and checklists
Emergency Support
For support to develop your practice plan contact Chelsea Brookes, Retention and Recruitment Lead, [email protected].
The Division also supports its members during an emergency. In an instance where member practices are impacted by an emergency, the Division offers supports such as:
- Incident recovery, in conjunction with relevant partners such as the Practice Support Program and Interior Health.
- Sourcing PPE or other supplies.
- Networking practices or assisting to find an alternate practice location that enables business continuity and continued patient care.
- Liaising between relevant agencies (community and healthcare partners as needed).