Emergency Management (EM) (Office Based Surgery / Office-Based Surgery)
Emergency Management - Committees
Publish | January 01, 0001
Is there a required composition of the Emergency Management Committee?
The Joint Commission has no prescribed make-up of the emergency management committee. The organization should consider those positions or persons that have primary responsibility and expertise associated with the phases of emergency management. This includes mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery activities. For example, if the National Incident Management System (NIMS) is used, there should be representation at least from the areas of command, command staff, operations, planning, logistics, and finance/administration. Just like the hazard vulnerability analysis (HVA) is used to establish the content of an emergency operations plan, the HVA can also be used to establish the expertise needed for the emergency management committee. Also, if the community emergency operations structure requires certain representation in an emergency management committee, then the organization should take that into consideration when setting up committee representation. EM.01.01.01 requires leaders of the medical staff to participate in emergency management planning activities. [EM.01.01.01]
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