Areas of Expertise

Healthcare Coalition Operations

Many healthcare coalitions in the United States do not have an operational structure. This means that when a disaster strikes, the coalition is extremely limited in what it can do to assist its partner facilities during the event. EMCP will assess your current capabilities and provide sound recommendations and guidance to transition your healthcare coalition into a response support organization. This model ensures that better coordination occurs between partner facilities and ESF-8 operations during impactful events. As healthcare coalition roles continue to change this type of evolution is a natural step in enhancing your capabilities.

Large Healthcare Systems

Large multi-facility healthcare systems have unique needs and requirements related to emergency preparedness and response. With large footprints and one single set of resources, logistical support for facilities needs to be well thought out, organized, and practiced regularly. Using disaster tested and National Incident Management System (NIMS) compliant multi location coordination tactics created by EMCP for large healthcare systems, Corporate executives leadership can coordinate multiple facilities from a single space, managing needs and resources across vast geographical footprints.

Critical Access Hospitals

Disaster operations at Critical Access Hospitals can be a challenging process at best. Restricted numbers of staff and the lack of depth in many areas create numerous barriers to successful crisis management in these facilities. Solutions created by EMCP are specifically designed to support small facilities, and allow for facility leadership to enhance existing processes to ensure formidable response to the challenges of crisis and disaster events, business continuity, recovery, and the return to normal operations. These cost saving efforts are essential to the survival of small, but critically necessary facilities.

Long Term Care
Assisted Living
Independent Living

Since the deployment of Appendix Z regulations by the Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services (CMS), skilled nursing and assisted living facilities have been under extreme pressure to achieve compliance with new preparedness regulations. A looming question remains. Is checking the box on regulatory compliance enough? While EMCP is dedicated to assisting its clients in reaching the goal of compliance, our primary objective is to create disaster ready facilities that have plans that far exceed regulatory standards. EMCP team members have been on the front line of large scale evacuations and know all of the unique issues related to planning for, and responding to large events that impact vulnerable senior populations. These plans include identifying people in independent living locations as well, EMCP is well aware of the challenges of planning and preparing with independent living populations and the differences in regulation between CMS and the Fair Housing Act.

Crisis Decision Making
Strategies and Tactics

EMCP offers facility and organizational operations plan reviews and works with leadership and response staff members on command center customizations that address the unique situations that create barriers to success in your facility. EMCP works with each client based on their resources and capabilities and understands that no one plan is the same, nor is any client. Each plan is customized and reviewed with the client. EMCP does not provide a template plan to put a clients name on, we create a process that our clients can put their brand on.

Command Center
Customization and Operations Plan Reviews

A hallmark offering of EMCP, Crisis decision making seminars and training in decision making during crisis has long been conducted and modified by the leadership of EMCP. EMCP offers several layers of crisis decision making training for healthcare command centers, first responders, and other front line operations staff. The crisis decision making work done by EMCP is supported by solid academic research and has been field tested with positive results.

Emergency Management
Risk Assessments

Disaster and Crisis
Response and Recovery

The team at EMCP conducts risk assessments using standard healthcare risk assessment tools as well as custom tools designed by our team. Our ability to configure a risk assessment based on your facility specifics is what separates us from everyone else. We become part of your team and we take our work seriously, because its personal to you, and doing it right saves lives.

Team EMCP will assist your facility in disaster response and recovery. Whether you are an established client on retainer, or a brand new client, Team EMCP can assist your operations center by providing live subject matter expertise before, during, and after a disaster event. Team EMCP can work virtually, or in person with your facility command center during an event. Contact info@teamemcp.com for additional details.