1. ICS and You Jody Carter, MS, CEM, NREMT-P
Emergency Preparedness Coordinator
Baptist Health
Emergency Preparedness Summit
Community Health Centers of Arkansas
August 2017

2. Objectives Understand the ICS Principles
Recall the 9 Command & General Staff positions
Create a sample ICS Chart for your facility
Know where Community Health Centers may support a community- wide disaster response

3. FEMA Training
IS-100.HCb
“…should be completed by the hospital personnel that would have a direct role in emergency preparedness, incident management, and/or emergency response during an incident.”
EM, Administrators
Physicians, Nurses, Radiology, Lab
Materials, Procurement
Security, Safety
EMS

4. ICS Principles Standardizing Terminology – “EOC”?
Establish Command & Chain of Command
Expand/Contract as Needed
Span of Control = 3 to 7
Resource Management
Manage by Objectives
Plain Language – “EMT”??

5. “EMT” Emergency Medical Treatment Emergency Medical Technician
Emergency Management Team
Eastern Mediterranean Time (GMT+0200)
Effective Methods Team
Effects Management Tool
El Monte, CA (airport code)
Electron Microscope Tomography
Money Transfer

6. HICS Chart

7. Your Turn!

8. Yeah – So What??