1. Introduction and Overview
Certified Hospital Emergency Coordinator (CHEC) Training Program
Introduction and Overview

2. Welcome to the Certified Hospital Emergency Coordinator (CHEC) Advanced Course: Plans and Exercises
Introductions
Introduce yourself
(name, hospital, and title)
And explain what you hope to get from this course.
The instructor should take a minute and introduce themselves as well as the other instructors to be teaching this course. Give the students a little background about yourself (what you do, where you work, your history as it relates to the course/materials)

3. Objectives Explain rationale for Course and Certification Program
Identify and briefly discuss the Development Process and the tasks identified
Review the Course Overview
Describe the two levels of training
Explain the certification and the process

4. Certified Hospital Emergency Coordinator Advisory Committee
Identified reasons that a systematic, comprehensive, formal training program for hospital emergency coordinators was needed:
Varied backgrounds
Lack of formal training in emergency management specific to hospitals and healthcare
Multiple roles
Confidence

5. Certified Hospital Emergency Coordinator
Overall course goal:
To provide hospital emergency coordinators with the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to plan for and respond to any emergency event…
The goal of this course is to: [slide text]
The desire was to create a uniformity of knowledge.
…including natural disasters, terrorism, large-scale disease outbreaks, and man-made incidents

6. Detailed Objective-Based Development Process: Nine Critical Tasks
Emergency operations plan
NIMS, ICS, HICS
Emergency preparedness training
Drills and exercises
Coordinate and integrate disaster plans
Hazard Vulnerability Analysis (HVA)
Regulations and standards
Disaster life support training
Surge capacity

7. Additional Required Tasks
Alert procedures
Facility operations
Terrorism training and Homeland Security
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and Mutual Aid Agreement (MAG)
Pan Flu
Overview of HRSA/ASPR Program
Law enforcement risk and threat assessment
Budgets and grants
Staff and facility safety
Hospital administration support
Hospital Emergency Management Committee
Evacuation procedures
Patient flow
Developing external Relationships
Communication and disaster technology
Each task will appear on click.
As the next task appears, the prior task will fade.

8. Requisites to Attend the Course
Approval by an approved National Disaster Life Support Training Center
A willingness to want to learn and grow as an emergency coordinator
Target audience for the CHEC includes those currently serving as hospital emergency coordinators and those who have responsibility for activating the hospital disaster plan. Additionally, members of the hospitals Incident Command Staff and EM Committees are included in the target audience.

9. Levels of Training: Basic course Advanced course
Certified Hospital Emergency Coordinator (CHEC) Basic Course
2 day course
Advanced course
Emergency Plans and Exercises Course
One day course
At the end of each course, once you have successfully passed the test, you will be issued a Certificate of Training

10. Levels of Certification Certification Issued by Augusta University
Level I:
Certified Hospital Emergency Coordinator-
Basic Course
IS-230 Fundamentals of Emergency Management, IS-100.HC Introduction to ICS, IS-200 ICS, IS-700 NIMS, and IS-800 NRF
Level II:
Advanced Course
IS-120.A An Introduction to Exercises and IS-
235 Emergency Planning
Level III:
Basic Disaster Life Support course (BDLS)
Advanced Disaster Life Support course (ADLS)
Hospital-based Operations Level Decontamination course
Cumulative 12 months on-the-job experience

11. Testing Requirements For successful completion of this course:
Complete written test administered at the end of the course
Passing grade is 80% or higher
Re-test Procedures
Within 14 days, re-test
If a grade of 80% or higher is not achieved on the computer-based test, the student must repeat the course
Encourage students to focus on key material for testing.

12. Evaluations
Please keep them in mind throughout the duration of the course
Please complete the evaluations once you’ve completed the exam
The Courses are updated annually and your comments aide in the revision process

13. Basic Course Review

14. Basic Course Contents Hospital Preparedness Program
Emergency Management (EM) Overview
Federal, State, and Local Overview
NIMS/ICS/HICS Overview
Regulations and Standards
Emergency Coordinator Roles and Integrated Response
Gaining Support
Prerequisites for EOP Creation:
Hazard Identification & Assessment
The Emergency Operations Plan (EOP)
Emergency Communications
The Command Center
Most people will have just taken the basic course in the 2 days prior to taking the level 2 course. This PowerPoint is simply meant to refresh what was covered. For those who haven’t taken the basic course in awhile, it will serve to jog their memories.

15. Hospital Command Center
Popular design aspects were discussed for hospital command centers
Common use HCC’s are common and thus way to best suit both uses has to be considered during planning for use of the HCC
And remember, The HCC is really a place where: 
Uncomfortable people
Meet in cramped conditions
To play unfamiliar roles
Making unpopular decisions
Based on inadequate information
In much too little time

16. Certified Hospital Emergency Coordinator (CHEC) Training Program
Questions?
Remind students to refrain from using their laptops/blackberries/etc except during breaks, the use of such items is distracting to other students.