What state resources will assist with establishment of Alternative Care Sites when hospitals are over occupied and are unable to spare staff for another site?
MDH has developed and distributed an Off-Site Care Operations Plan Guidance Manual to all Regional Hospital Resource Center Coordinators and Public Health Preparedness Consultants to use for alternate care site planning. Hospitals are working regionally to identify sites and develop operational plans for alternate care, including staffing plans. Hospitals will implement their internal and regional surge capacity plans before considering the opening of Alternate Care Sites. MDH will communicate with hospitals using the Incident Command System process to monitor patient care needs and healthcare system capacity in order to advise the State Emergency Operations Center and the governor. Upon finding that the number of seriously ill or injured persons exceeds the emergency hospital or medical transport capacity of one or more regional hospital systems and that care for those persons has to be given in temporary care facilities, the governor may issue an emergency executive order. MDH will c
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