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Industry Note:

CDC Issues Guidance On Home Health, Hospice Emergency Planning

Want a boost to your emergency planning? You can consult a new resource from the Centers for Disease Control.

The CDC has issued a “Long-Term, Home Health, and Hospice Care Planning Guide for Public Health Emergencies” on its website. The guide aims “to help improve the planning efforts of these healthcare entities and their coordination and integration within the community,” the CDC says. “This Planning Guide focuses on six topic areas: situational awareness, continuity of operations, facility or agency operations, crisis standards of care, staffing, and fatality management. Each topic area is presented in a manner that allows the user to develop needed sections in a facility or agency’s emergency preparedness and response plan.”

A link to the Word document guide is at www.cdc.gov/phpr/healthcare/planning2.htm.

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