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Why have hospitals been required to implement HEICS as opposed to NIMS?

April 26, 2017heics hospitals implement NIMS

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Why have hospitals been required to implement HEICS as opposed to NIMS?

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The National Incident Management System (NIMS) is a generic incident command system for use by local, regional and state agencies to manage an event. Agencies using NIMS must adapt it to their facility/agency based on the type of work that is done. The Hospital Emergency Incident Command System (HEICS) is an incident command system that has already been adapted for use by hospitals to manage an event. The new Hospital Incident Command System (HICS), a revision of HEICS, was just released and will soon be distributed throughout the nation. HICSS is NIMS-compliant (meets NIMS requirements) and will include online training modules.