Transcript Quality improvement in public health

Incident Command System
Overview
An Introduction for Healthcare Coalition
January 24, 2013
Tiffany Reed, training coordinator at Spokane Regional Health District
Objectives
At the completion of this
presentation, you will be
familiar with:
 Incident Command System
purpose
 Benefits to using the Incident
Command System
 Incident Command System
organizational structure
What is it?
 The Incident Command
System (ICS) is
a standardized approach to managing
an incident
 Enables various jurisdictions, agencies,
and/or programs to respond together
in a coordinated fashion
 Establishes a common organizational
structure
 Establishes a common process for
planning, resource management and
communications
History
 Developed in
70’s after a series of fires in
California where many died and property damage
was in the millions
 Those studying response determined that
response problems weren’t as a result of lack of
resources or tactics, but in the management of
these resources and tactics
Homeland Security Presidential Directive 5
identified steps for improved coordination
in response to incidents. Required NRF &
NIMS
National Incident Management System
Preparedness
 Communications and Information
Management
 Resource Management
 Command and Management
 Ongoing Management and
Maintenance

Prevent
Protect
Respond
Recover
Mitigate
When is ICS used?
ICS Features
 Common
terminology
 Management by objectives
 Chain of command and unity of command
 Resource management
 Integrated communications
Modular Organization & Span of Control
OSC
Epi branch
Investigator
Investigator
Investigator
Command & General Staff Functions
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Why join the ICS bandwagon?
 Necessary to
integrate
with other response
agencies
 Manage a response much
more effectively and
efficiently
 Doesn’t all fall on one
person or program to
accomplish all objectives
2001 Joint Commission for
the Accreditation of
Healthcare Organizations has
required members to
develop an all-hazards
program and use the
Incident Command System
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