What are the requirements regarding an emergency inventory?

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The hospital must have a written plan for how resources and assets are documented, tracked, and monitored and how they will locate (on-site and off-site inventories) during a disaster/emergency incident (EM.12.02.09, EP 1).  The plan includes processes or procedures for how the hospital will manage and maintain critically needed resources such as personal protective equipment, water, fuel, and medical, surgical supplies and medications. It is up to the organization to determine what additional resources and assets may be needed during an emergency.

The written plan should include how the hospital will obtain, allocate, mobilize, replenish and conserve its resources and assets (see EM.12.02.09, EP 2).  Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) or other agreements may be formed with other entities to help the organization maintain its inventory during an emergency. However, MOUs are most useful during isolated emergencies, and are often not effective during large emergency events impacting a large region.  Therefore, it is very important to test and/or document this along with the other five critical areas during an exercise or actual event to look for areas of risk. Additionally, hospitals are required to have a plan to sustain operations for up to 96 hours based on calculations of current resource consumptions (see EM.12.02.09, EP 3).