Is the Tool for Evaluating Core Elements of Hospital Disaster Drills Homeland Security Exercise Evaluation Program (HSEEP) compliant?
AHRQ: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Office for Health Affairs is pleased to report that they support the use of the AHRQ publication Tool for Evaluating Core Elements of Hospital Disaster Drills. This document has undergone review through their internal processes and has been found to be in concurrence with DHS efforts. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) reviewers stated it is a well developed/written tool to assist evaluators that encompasses unique components of hospital evaluation, such as those required for Joint Commission certification, and complies with the National Incident Management System (NIMS) since it includes an evaluation of an Incident Command System. The tool provides a certain level of detail of actual results, and along with appropriate EEGs and well-documented exercise timeline, each module provides a good tool to evaluate hospital exercises. Equally important, the modules serve as a valuable tool to develop specific and measurable exercise obj
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