Capability Cliff Notes Series

PHEP Capability 14—Responder Safety and Health

What Is It And How Will We Measure It?

Learning Objectives

• Become familiar with Capability Functions• Become familiar with Tasks that complete the

Functions• Understand how these Functions and Tasks

are measured or may be measured in the future (Performance Measures)

Responder Safety and Health

• The responder safety and health capability describes the ability of healthcare organizations to protect the safety and health of healthcare workers from a variety of hazards during emergencies and disasters. This includes processes to equip, train, and provide other resources needed to ensure healthcare workers at the highest risk for adverse exposure, illness, and injury are adequately protected from all hazards during response and recovery operations.

• How can public health departments protect their staff and help to protect the health of health-care or first responder personnel?

Responder Safety and Health Functions:

What Are Steps for Healthcare Coalitions to Assist Organizations in Protecting Responders Safety and Health?

• Assist healthcare organizations with additional pharmaceutical protection for healthcare workers

• Provide assistance to healthcare organizations to gain access to additional Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for healthcare workers during response

Capabilities and Measures ResourcesThe presentation will be an overview of what the functions and tasks mean, linked to

the performance measures.

Please note that since the capabilities PDF document has come out, more performance measures have been developed. If performance measures have come out since the creation of the capabilities document below, they have been included in these tutorials following their function slide, even if the PDF lists that there are no measures. For functions that still have no measures, questions for health departments to begin thinking about measures have been included instead.

For exact lists of the capabilities and performance measures, and data collected for the measures, documents can be found at these links:

For Capabilities, Functions, and Tasks• http://www.phe.gov/Preparedness/planning/hpp/reports/Documents/capabilities

.pdfFor Performance Measures

http://www.phe.gov/Preparedness/planning/evaluation/Documents/hpp-coag.pdf

Function 1: Assist healthcare organizations with additional pharmaceutical protection for

healthcare workers Tasks: What steps should healthcare coalitions take to assist

organizations in providing pharmaceutical protection to healthcare workers?

1. Identify the pharmaceuticals needed to safeguard healthcare workers and their families when needed, through hazards vulnerability assessments (HVAs), and resource needs information.

2. Assess the need for developing pharmaceutical caches that can be accessed by healthcare organizations when requested and available during an exposure/incident.

3. Establish the appropriate processes to deliver caches of pharmaceuticals to healthcare organizations during an exposure requiring prophylaxis and treatment when requested and available.

Function 1 MeasurementHow does ASPR measure if healthcare coalitions are able to

assist healthcare organizations to ensure responder safety and health?

Percent of HCCs that have systems and processes in place to preserve healthcare system functions and to protect all of the coalition member employees (including healthcare and non healthcare employees) ‐

• Number of HCCs that have systems and processes in place to preserve healthcare system functions and to protect all of the coalition member employees (including healthcare and non healthcare employees). ‐

• Denominator: Number of HCCs identified by awardees

Target is 100%. All data elements must be answered ‘yes’ for an HCC to count in the numerator.

Specific data elements that were included in the measure can be found at this link on pgs 50-53:

http://www.phe.gov/Preparedness/planning/evaluation/Documents/hpp-coag.pdf

Function 2: Provide assistance to healthcare organizations with access to additional Personal

Protective Equipment (PPE) for healthcare workers during response

Tasks: How can healthcare coalitions assist organizations in meeting personal protective and safety needs for responders?

1. Identify the PPE required to protect healthcare workers during exposure incidents based on risk assessments, HVAs, and resource needs

2. Establish processes to access personal protective equipment by healthcare organizations when requested and available during an exposure incident

Function 2 MeasurementHow does ASPR measure if healthcare coalitions are able to

assist healthcare organizations to ensure responder safety and health?

Percent of HCCs that have systems and processes in place to preserve healthcare system functions and to protect all of the coalition member employees (including healthcare and non healthcare employees) ‐

• Number of HCCs that have systems and processes in place to preserve healthcare system functions and to protect all of the coalition member employees (including healthcare and non healthcare employees). ‐

• Denominator: Number of HCCs identified by awardees

Target is 100%. All data elements must be answered ‘yes’ for an HCC to count in the numerator.

Specific data elements that were included in the measure can be found at this link on pgs 50-53:

http://www.phe.gov/Preparedness/planning/evaluation/Documents/hpp-coag.pdf

Questions?

Please contact:Rachel ColesProgram Evaluator--CDPHE303-692-2764rachel.coles@state.co.us