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MDT Home Health Care Agency, Inc. kept current and shall include information such as current medications, doses, frequency/duration, route, supplies and medical equipment required for continuing care and service should the patient be evacuated, also the list include, allergies, physician name and phone number, pharmacy name and number, and if the patient permits the list can also include the patient’s diagnosis. This list will assist our staff during and immediately following an emergency which requires implementation of the emergency management plan, this list shall be furnished to local County Health Departments and to the county Emergency Management office, upon request. If our agency at some point ceases operation, as defined in Section 400.492(3), F.S., we will inform those patients whose services will be discontinued during the emergency. Our agency will also notify assisted living facilities and adult family care homes where residents are served and make arrangements for nursing personnel to continue essential services, such as insulin and other injections, as ordered in treatment orders to residents. If the agency has assisted living facility, adult family care home or other patients in special needs shelters, then the agency will call the local emergency operation center as soon as possible after the disaster and report on the status of the agency’s damage, if any, and the post-disaster availability to continue serving their patients in the special needs shelters and during discharge from the special needs shelters. If our agency are unable to continue services to special needs patients registered under Section 252.355, F.S., that patient’s record must contain documentation of the efforts made by our staff to comply with their emergency management plan in accordance with Section 400.492(3), F.S. Documentation includes, but is not limited to, contacts made to the patient’s caregivers, if applicable; contacts made to the assisted living facility and adult family care home, if applicable; and contacts made to local emergency operation centers to obtain assistance in reaching patients and contacts made to other agencies which may be able to provide temporary services. Our home health agency will collect registration information for special needs patients who will need continuing care or services during a disaster or emergency, pursuant to Section 252.355, F.S. This registration information shall be submitted, when collected, to the county Emergency Management office, or on a periodic basis as determined by our agency’s county Emergency Management office. The Agenct EMP will include response procedure to follow when emergencies occur, and states to have operational process to organize and mobilize personnel adequate to secure resources needed to meet patient needs in the event of a disaster or crisis. Our EMP will also include response procedures that not only address the priortiezed emergencies but can be adapted to other emergencies that the organization may experience to include in the event that the agency is unable to resume operations the Administrator/DON, Clinical Manager will contact the home health agency under written agreement for the EMP. The administrator or the DON, Clinical Manager will be responsible for the initial and recovery phase of the EMP. The staff and operations would resume when county officials clear the emergency over and it is safe to resume operations. Home Health Agency Policies A-65