ReadyAssessment™

ReadyGlobal offers unique, industry-specific, online survey tools to assist organizations in self-assessing current levels of preparedness and resiliency. Our ReadyAssessment has received many positive reviews. 

Relating to the healthcare industry, in March 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released an updated emergency preparedness rule for 17 sectors of the U.S. healthcare system. The new rule mandates compliance or healthcare enterprises risk losing a percentage of their reimbursement rate from Medicare and Medicaid. 

The regulation also requires organizations to develop and maintain a comprehensive emergency preparedness program, utilizing an all-hazards approach that includes, but is not limited to, the following domains:

• Risk Assessment and Planning: Develop an emergency preparedness plan based on facility and community risk assessments and utilize an all-hazards approach; address patient populations, services offered for continuity of operations, and succession plans.
• Policies and Procedures: Develop emergency preparedness policies and procedures based on the risk assessment, emergency plan, and communication plan; address subsistence needs, patient tracking, evacuation, sheltering in place, protection of medical documentation, and arrangements with other providers in the event of patient transfer.
  
• Communication Plan: Develop an emergency preparedness communication plan that complies with federal, state, and local laws; include contact information for relevant partners, methods to share protected patient information, and primary and alternate means of communication.
• Training and Testing: Develop an emergency preparedness training and testing program based on the risk assessment, emergency plan, and communication plan; provide annual training on all emergency preparedness policies and procedures; participate annually in two exercises, one of which must be a full-scale community-based exercise.