N.M. Admin. Code § 8.370.12.25 - DISASTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
A.
Plan: Each hospital shall
have in operation a written plan for disaster and emergency management
developed with the involvement of the hospital's executive, medical, and
nursing staff and designed to ensure that each hospital is prepared to provide
effective and efficient response to disasters and emergencies occurring in the
community directly served by each hospital and in neighboring communities in
New Mexico and adjacent states.
(1)
Description of plan: The written plan for disaster and emergency management
shall:
(a) identify the responsibilities and
authorities of those involved in the conduct of disaster and emergency
management activities within the hospital, including the responsibility and
authority of chief executive officer of the hospital for the activation of the
plan;
(b) be consistent with the
concepts, principles, standards, guidelines, and terminology of the national
response plan and the national incident management system;
(c) be coordinated with the local emergency
operations plan, or the metropolitan medical response system plan, of the
community directly served and with the New Mexico state all-hazard emergency
operations plan;
(d) address the
natural, accidental, negligent, and intentional hazards, identified through a
hazard vulnerability analysis, to which the hospitals may be expected to
respond;
(e) provide for direction,
planning, education, training, exercise, drill, staff qualification and
certification, equipment acquisition and certification, resource management,
communications and information management, and ongoing management, improvement
and maintenance;
(f) describe the
direct responses of the hospital to disaster and emergency occurring in the
community directly served by the hospital, the overflow and back-up responses
of the hospital to disaster and emergency occurring in neighboring communities
not directly served, and the efforts of the hospital in support organized and
sponsored health professional disaster and emergency volunteer
teams.
(2) Exercise and
drill of plan: Exercises and drills of the plan, both internally, and in
conjunction with local and state disaster and emergency exercises and drills,
shall be conducted at least twice a year to practice response and to serve as a
basis for plan improvement.
(3)
Evaluation and revision of plan: The appropriateness and adequacy of the plan
shall be evaluated on an annual basis, and the plan shall be revised as
necessary.
B.
Communications systems: With the assistance of the New Mexico
health care authority each hospital shall establish and maintain connections
with the various disaster and emergency management communications systems in
New Mexico.
C.
Bed
polling: Each hospital shall participate in the electronic bed polling
system operated by the New Mexico health care authority.
D.
Mutual aid agreements and regional
response plans: Coordination of hospital disaster and emergency
management plans with local emergency operations plans and with the New Mexico
state all-hazard emergency operations plan shall be recognized to serve the
purposes of individual mutual aid agreements and of regional response
plans.
E.
Public health
emergency response: In the event that a public health emergency is
declared pursuant to the Public Health Response Act, Sections 12-10A- to
12-10A-19, NMSA 1978, the secretary of the health care authority, in
coordination with the secretary of public safety and the director of homeland
security, may:
(1) utilize, secure or
evacuate health care facilities for public use; and
(2) inspect, regulate the allocation, sale,
dispensing, or distribution of, or ration health care supplies in short supply
within New Mexico.
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