EXERCISE DESIGN SERVICES
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Exercising your emergency preparedness plans helps your organization meet several important preparedness goals.

• Many funding, surveyor and accreditation entities include exercises as part of their requirements. Our team is knowledgeable about HRSA, JCAHO, HSEEP and other requirements.
• Exercises provide an effective way to test previous decisions against new information or circumstances ensuring your preparedness plan is an “evergreen” document well suited to address preparedness today and in the future.
• A solid preparedness plan can help your organization recover from a disaster more quickly, so you can get back to business and meet the expectations of key stakeholders.

The Center for Biopreparedness Education has received grant funding from Nebraska Health and Human Services System to provide specific, limited education and/or exercise services at no cost to Nebraska hospitals and businesses through the fall of 2007. Please call us for more information. The Center:

• helps identify which exercise type most effectively achieves your goals

• injects specific facilitation techniques to involve participants in developing

• after action reports and improvement plans

• trained in exercise design by emergency management experts

• qualified as Master Exercise Practitioners by the Department of Homeland Security.

THE CYCLE OF A COMPREHENSIVE EXERCISE DESIGN PROGRAM

PLAN

Whether the plan addresses response or contingency, an organization’s level of preparedness starts with the plan. Using effective, time-tested facilitation techniques, the Center assists with the planning process.

COMPREHENSIVE EXERCISE PROGRAM

Continuous improvement is achieved by developing a comprehensive program of exercises over an extended period of time to test, improve and retest the plan, ensuring that the plan adapts to ever changing environments. Our Master Exercise Practitioners design a program to address long-term preparedness needs.

EXERCISE

There’s an exercise format to accomplish any plan testing goal.

• Orientation/Seminar

  • Used to familiarize participants with roles, plans, procedures or equipment.

  • Employs little or no simulation

• Drill

  • Used to test a single specific organization or function

  • Involves actual field or facility response in a realistic setting

• Tabletop

  • Used to generate constructive discussion as participants examine and resolve problems

  • Employs a scenario to stimulate analysis of emergency plans

• Functional

  • Tests the capability of an organization to respond to a simulated event

  • Simulates an incident in the most realistic manner possible, short of moving resources to an actual site

• Full-scale

  • Evaluates the operational capability of emergency management systems by simulating actual response conditions

  • Requires the mobilization and actual movement of personnel, equipment and resources

AFTER ACTION REPORT AND IMPROVEMENT PLAN

The real value of an exercise lies in what happens afterwards - after action reports and improvement plans. The Center injects specific facilitation techniques into each exercise that involves the participants in developing the after action report and improvement plan. The result is a timeline for corrective action and real commitment to change.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

Businesses and Educational Organizations contact Keith Hansen at 402-552-3501 or kfhansen@unmc.edu.

Hospitals contact Kristine Sanger at 402-552-3099 or ksanger@bioprepare.org.

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