* Identify the essential elements of a typical all-hazards healthcare facility/system emergency management program. * Describe the major components of the ICS as it applies to healthcare, including the roles and responsibilities of various functional areas, incident command post organization, Unified Command (UC) and operation, and the relationship to the National Incident Management System (NIMS). * Describe how healthcare facilities and systems integrate into the community emergency response plan. * Identify the various regulatory, accrediting, and standard-setting organizations and agencies and how the regulations and standards they produce are important in healthcare emergency management. Functional areas addressed by this course include an overview of relevant standards, regulations and organizations integration with agencies and stakeholders the Incident Command System (ICS) as it applies to healthcare plans and the planning the process facility and personnel preparedness exercises and training surge and related mass casualty issues (including patient care and/or ethics, evacuation, public affairs, and risk communications), recovery, and finances/reimbursement The Framework for Healthcare Emergency Management (FRAME) course is designed for personnel who are responsible for the development, implementation, maintenance, and administration of emergency management programs and plans for healthcare facilities/systems (e.g., hospitals, clinics, community health centers). Framework for Health Emergency Management (FRAME)

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