CAHF Disaster Planning Guide

This guide was developed to assist long-term care providers with enhancing their existing emergency operations plans and procedures. It includes self-assessment tools, checklists, templates, and other resources that can be found across multiple tabs. The information contained in this guide was developed in consideration of the core concepts and guiding principles of the National Incident Management System (NIMS). The Nursing Home Incident Command System (NHICS), a derivative of the Incident Command System, is promoted throughout this guide. (Note that the template is missing specific Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services [CMS] Emergency Preparedness [EP] Rule requirements for the facility to identify its Order of Succession and Delegation of Authority; these should be included in any COOP Plan.)