As an Assisted Living Administrator, you have been tasked with creating an Emergency Plan in order to Prepare for Hurricane Season.

Below is a checklist of the required elements.

Your task is to make an Executive Summary for the staff on charting and rounding during an emergency.

Executive Summaries are typically one to two pages.

First: Put the list below into a checklist format

Then, write the one to two page Executive Summary on Rounding and Charting during emergencies.

Executive Summary Formatting has been attached at the top.

The Following Is a Checklist of the Elements That are Required:

Make sure you have registered your ALF with the Agency for Health Care Administration's web-based Emergency Support System Track tropical disturbances and other known disasters. Notify staff and residents about any impending disasters, such as storms, their strength, and their location. Keep key supervisors informed and have them brief their departmental staff continually. Establish a command post and assure it is manned 24/7. Assign a staff person to monitor local media. Have supervisors reviewed staffing needs every eight (8) hours. Provide 24 hour Switchboard operation. Provide rounds out of the facility when safe. Plan special purchases as required. Set up in advance with vendors. Dietary Department should prepare alternate menus (disaster menus - include staff and visitors). Nursing should review resident needs (review resident DOEA Form 1823 in advance). Those residents that can be discharged to families should have left the facility with adequate medications. Maintenance should have secured the facility, taking care not to block egress. Establish Security Guard patrols and shifts, if needed. Steps should have been taken to save up drinking water. Ice and coolers should have been purchased. Freeze as much water as you can. An alternate receiving site should have been selected and alerted. Transportation should be available in order to evacuate residents if needed. Make sure drivers are available and know evacuation route. Have the vehicles fueled and keys available. Consider having additional stores of fuel. Transportation should be available to transport supplies. Assign someone to coordinate transportation of supplies, people, etc. Establish communications with Department of Health (ESF-8 Office), Local County Emergency Operations Center, and the Agency for Health Care Administration. Establish communications with FHCA-FCAL. Utilize volunteers. Check the status of the laundry service. Establish communication with local hospital(s) if appropriate for residents. Make sure extra back braces are available to those loading and unloading buses. Check that buses are staffed, adequately supplied with money for tolls, destination maps and guidelines regarding what to do in an emergency, have cell phones. Oversee the notification of family/significant others. Administrator is in charge of the following steps in the Evacuation Process: Facility Preparations and Decision Making. Evacuation and Staging. Offsite Evacuation Operations. When busses arrive at receiving facility. Operations after all residents arrive and locations established. Reverse evacuation, re-entry, and post-storm follow-through.