Central East LHIN s role in Emergency Management. Central East LHIN Board Meeting December 3, 2014 Katie Cronin-Wood, Communications Lead

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1 Central East LHIN s role in Emergency Management Central East LHIN Board Meeting December 3, 2014 Katie Cronin-Wood, Communications Lead

2 Role of the LHIN in Emergency Management Since the Fall of 2011, the LHINs have been working with the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care to define, support and implement the LHINs role in Emergency Management. As per the policy approved in June 2012 and an implementation plan approved in September 2013, the LHIN emergency management role is intended to support the local health system to prepare for, respond to and recover from emergency events. Ensuring continued access to health care services and maintaining local health system capacity during emergency events is critical and is an important role for the LHINs as emergency management partners. 2

3 How is this demonstrated in the Central East LHIN? System leadership during 2012 and 2013 Influenza Surge responses System support for local Emergency Responses Ice Storm 2013 Exercise Unified Response May 2014 Surge Planning Pan Am/Para Pan preparedness local planning in progress Fairview Lodge Fire in Whitby Ebola 3

4 Two streams of planning activity A MOHLTC-LHIN Implementation Working Group has been assembled with representation from all 14 LHINs to support implementation of the LHIN role in emergency management Deliverables are scheduled over a three-year implementation period and include: Tools (e.g. Emergency Response Plan template, health system capacity assessment, guidance manual) Education and training (phase 1 & 2) Awareness / roll-out strategy Service agreements (e.g. agreements with HSPs, mutual aid agreements). 4

5 Two streams of planning activity cont d Seven LHINs are involved in Emergency Preparedness preparations for the Pan Am and Parapan Am Games. The intent is to have all LHINs, HSPs and community partners reach Operational Functional Point (OFP), which is the state of readiness for addressing any potential impact of the Games on the health care system, no later than June 16th,

6 What we re getting ready for. Whitby Abilities Centre Boccia, Judo Ajax Pan Am Ball Park Baseball, Softball Oshawa GM Centre Boxing Designated Hospital Lakeridge Health Oshawa Scarborough CIBC Pan Am/Parapan Am Aquatics Centre and Fieldhouse Synchronized Swimming, Swimming, Diving, Fencing, Pentathlon, Sitting Volleyball Scarborough Modern Pentathlon Park riding, running, shooting Scarborough Birchmount Stadium Track and Field Designated Hospital The Scarborough Hospital, General site Minden Minden Wild Water Preserve Canoe/Kayak Designated Hospital Haliburton Highlands Health Services 6

7 What s Next Central East LHIN Emergency Management Implementation Steering Committee and Cluster Committees - January 2015 In February 2015, Cluster Tables to review local HIRAs and potential scenarios including impact on: vulnerable, identified populations HHR, staff volunteering, funding Language capabilities of front line/physician HHR pool Communications By March 2015, Cluster Tables to develop MOUs related to shared surge management planning 7

8 What is the LHIN role in Emergency Management? LHINs are the System managers - with the authority to direct an integrated response across the local health care system LHINs are the Facilitators - who have the local knowledge and the strong relationships to support the health system with a shared response 8

9 Lessons Learned Proactively identify your partners and their 24/7 contact information Health Acute, Community-Based, Public Health, LTCH/retirement homes Social Services Municipal Emergency Operations Centres Provincial Emergency Operations Centre Work with partners to proactively identify vulnerable populations where are they? who s currently providing care/are they being case managed? what types of dependencies do they have? Who has the capacity to ramp up when required? The real estate/the resources Do we bring the patients to the organization or deploy the organizational resources to where the people are? What s the role of EMAT? How do we work together? 9

10 THANK YOU. 10