Hospital Disaster Plan
Gulf Coast Hospital
Eva Michelle Carlin
HCS/533October 20, 2014
Dr. Kevin Lett
Gulf Coast HospitalThe Gulf Coast Hospital, a 350-bed facility, is located in New Orleans, Louisiana along the Gulf coast. The Gulf coast has been hit with numerous hurricanes and tropical storms and in 2005 Katrina hit land. Hurricane Katrina was the deadliest and most destructive Atlantic tropical cyclone of the 2005 season and made her way onto the shores of the Gulf coast on the morning of Monday, August 29, in southeast Louisiana. The storm surge was the cause of much of the destruction. The levee system catastrophically filed resulting in major flooding and destroyed the patients files stored in the basement of the hospital.
It is managements plans to keep patients records secure by implementing new policies and procedures for responding to an emergency that has the potential of damaging systems that contain electronic protected health information by scanning paper medical records into the computer, establishing procedures for creating and maintaining backups of any electronic protected health information, (backups that are exact copies and retrievable at any time, but also kept secure from unauthorized access) and storing the backups off site.
In 2000 Gulf Coast Hospital started moving the paper files to the EMR and started staff training on the use of EMR. Part of the job as administrator of a hospital in hurricane prone areas is to train the staff for the future hurricane emergencies. The staff has already been trained on ways to avoid accidental disclosure of patient information. The Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) requires that employees complete yearly education to maintain competency on patient privacy issues. The hospital is prepared for the next natural disaster and information users, such as managers, directors, and executive staff members can obtain the medical information from the offsite facility at that time.
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Eva Michelle Carlin
HCS/533October 20, 2014
Dr. Kevin Lett
Gulf Coast HospitalThe Gulf Coast Hospital, a 350-bed facility, is located in New Orleans, Louisiana along the Gulf coast. The Gulf coast has been hit with numerous hurricanes and tropical storms and in 2005 Katrina hit land. Hurricane Katrina was the deadliest and most destructive Atlantic tropical cyclone of the 2005 season and made her way onto the shores of the Gulf coast on the morning of Monday, August 29, in southeast Louisiana. The storm surge was the cause of much of the destruction. The levee system catastrophically filed resulting in major flooding and destroyed the patients files stored in the basement of the hospital.
It is managements plans to keep patients records secure by implementing new policies and procedures for responding to an emergency that has the potential of damaging systems that contain electronic protected health information by scanning paper medical records into the computer, establishing procedures for creating and maintaining backups of any electronic protected health information, (backups that are exact copies and retrievable at any time, but also kept secure from unauthorized access) and storing the backups off site.
In 2000 Gulf Coast Hospital started moving the paper files to the EMR and started staff training on the use of EMR. Part of the job as administrator of a hospital in hurricane prone areas is to train the staff for the future hurricane emergencies. The staff has already been trained on ways to avoid accidental disclosure of patient information. The Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) requires that employees complete yearly education to maintain competency on patient privacy issues. The hospital is prepared for the next natural disaster and information users, such as managers, directors, and executive staff members can obtain the medical information from the offsite facility at that time.
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