Crisis Standards of Care Learning Opportunity: Tabletop Exercise

To: Health Facility Administrators

From: Greg Schlosser, Branch Chief, Education and Technical Assistance Branch

Beginning later this month through April 2019, CDPHE's Office of Emergency Preparedness and Response will be holding virtual and in-person tabletop exercises to test the Department’s Crisis Standards of Care Plan (CSC), updated in 2018.View the invitation at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UIb0efFjt-QEei493l2aAhZDqtaFzsHN/view?usp=sharing. 

Jan. 24, 2019, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM 
Pueblo https://bit.ly/2Rmm8Yb 

Feb. 7, 2019, 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM 
Virtual https://bit.ly/2TeO65y 

Feb. 26, 2019, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM 
Durango https://bit.ly/2rUNXZk 

Feb. 27, 2019, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM 
Rifle https://bit.ly/2CF1dHP

March 6, 2019, TBD 
North Central Region https://bit.ly/2TjVZqp 

March 13, 2019, 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM 
Virtual https://bit.ly/2TfkWTw 

April 4, 2019, 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM 
Virtual https://bit.ly/2BHb0uU 

April 8, 2019, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM 
Virtual https://bit.ly/2ETyyjr 

April 25, 2019, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM 
Virtual https://bit.ly/2Aj2XEY 

The Crisis Standards of Care guidance is designed to assist healthcare providers with decision-making to maximize patient survival in declared disaster situations when the volume of patients and their resource needs far surpass available capabilities and capacity of healthcare facilities to provide normal standards of care. View the May 2018 Crisis Standards of Care document athttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1-gq2_J0yRD077zGe3rhVcY9-3kSNQ7qX/view?usp=sharing.

Please note: This tabletop exercise does not count as one of your facility exercises to meet CMS' emergency preparedness requirements. While the table top will help facilities understand how to integrate into a community response in an emergency, the CMS table top exercises are intended to review and exercise individual facility plans.

For more information, contact Will Moorhead, All Clear Emergency Management Group WillM@AllClearEMG.com or Curt Drennen, CDPHE Office of Emergency Preparedness and Response, Curt.Drennen@state.co.us.