• Pierce County HMAP Orientation Sessions - November 15 & 16, 2011
  • PowerPoint Presentation - PDF Version
• Pierce County LTC-MAP Annual Education Session - September 20, 2011
  • Agenda and Directions
  • PowerPoint Presentation - PDF Version
  • Portable Disaster Cart / Kit - Picture & Sample Contents
• Transportation Evacuation Surveys - LTC
  • Nursing Home Transportation Evacuation Survey (Updated November 2010)
  • Assisted Living Transportation Evacuation Survey (April 2011 Version)
• Influx of Patients / Surge Guidelines - June 2010
  • PDF Version (Sample provided by CT & MA Mutual Aid Plans)
  • Customizable MS Word Version (Sample provided by CT & MA Mutual Aid Plans)
• After Action Report - March 2, 2010 Education & Tabletop Exercise
  • After Action Report - Completed April 23, 2010

Welcome to the Pierce County Hospital Mutual Aid Plan (HMAP) and Long Term Care Mutual Aid Plan (LTC-MAP) Information Website

Hospital Mutual Aid Plan (HMAP) and Long Term Care Mutual Aid Plan (LTC-MAP) for Evacuation and Resources/Assets Plan

This plan establishes a course of action and an agreed commitment among participating hospitals and long term care facilities in Pierce County, WA (Region 5) to assist each other as needed in the time of a disaster.

Assistance may come in the form of:

• Providing pre-designated evacuation locations for patients during a disaster; and/or
• Providing or sharing supplies, equipment, transportation, staff or pharmaceuticals to a facility when a disaster overwhelms their own community or exceeds the capability of internal emergency operations plans.

Why is this initiative underway?

It has been identified in local, regional and national disasters that each community must have a proactive disaster plan and all disasters start locally. This unique plan will work to prepare all of the local healthcare facilities to stand together in a disaster with preplanned resources and assets.

Benefits to the plan include:

• Preplanned Evacuation Strategy - fast evacuation (i.e. Fire/Gas Leak) and delayed evacuation (i.e. Hurricane/Loss of Emergency Power.)
• Preplanned Supply, Equipment and Pharmaceutical Support when Isolated.
• Provide local public safety incident commanders with easy on-site access to user-friendly plans including contact information for evacuation resources and key personnel.
• Provide local EMS commander with resources needed to efficiently identify, transfer and track patients to pre-designated receiving sites.
• Development of proactive Communications for ALL parties (healthcare, emergency agencies).
• Plan requirements meet DOH and Joint Commission community integration and disaster exercise requirements for Emergency Management.