Coronavirus Disease 2019 (covid-19) Healthcare Preparedness Table Top Exercise

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Healthcare Preparedness Table Top Exercise

COVID-19 Response Objectives

Overall objectives:

• Minimize morbidity and mortality from outbreak
• Preserve social function and minimize social disruption

Response objectives:

• Surveillance
• Uniform infection and exposure control measures
• Healthcare guidance
• Public information
• Hospital surge support
• Fatality management

Pandemic Severity

Pandemic Severity Assessment Framework

Purpose

To provide an opportunity to evaluate current response concepts, plans and capabilities in response to an outbreak of a novel viral disease.

Exercise Objectives

• Improve preparedness for a response to a patient infected with novel coronavirus (COVID-19) presenting at a healthcare facility.
• Evaluate the hospital’s capability to safely identify and effectively isolate a symptomatic patient at the facility.
• Assess the notification and communications processes internally with rostered staff and externally between local, regional, state public health, emergency medical services, other healthcare delivery partners, and media.

Exercise Objectives

• Assess just-in-time training for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) donning/doffing and availability.
• Discuss the capabilities and capacities to sustain a prolonged medical surge novel virus outbreak event for both adult and pediatric patients.
• Assess planning for special considerations (surge capacity, diagnostic radiological imaging, laboratory services, waste management and decedent management).

Planning Considerations

• Timely recognition and isolation
• Personal protective equipment use
• Protection of healthcare workers, patients, and visitors
• Proper reporting to the Tennessee Department of Health
• Information management both internal and external
• Surveillance, contact tracing, and movement monitoring
• Maintaining normal hospital operations
• Laboratory services coordination
• Environmental and waste management
• Patient transportation