Has the Tool for Evaluating Core Elements of Hospital Disaster Drills been used by a critical access hospital with attached long term care? If so, what has been the feedback on the ease of use?
Mollie Jenckes: As the tools have been available for several years, and have been widely distributed by DHHS, and are in use in multiple States, this may be the case; however, as far as I know, we do not have a complete list of the instances where the tools have been used to evaluate drills. This is a good suggestion for DHHS or AHRQ, to request feedback from States on what hospitals have utilized the Modules, whether the complete modules or the Core Elements were used, and in what areas of patient care each was used. The agencies could then develop a contact repository of users as the tools come into even wider use.
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