Assess Your Preparedness, on your terms

February 12, 2022, Portland, ME –

ReadyGlobal’s proprietary, industry-specific self-assessment tool answers critical questions about your organization’s risk of losing reimbursement dollars, incurring fines, or repairing negative news stories because of inadvertent non-compliance to the most recent government rules. RG quickly identifies any organizational gaps or risks. Once risks are detected, they are immediately prioritized, bridged, and resolved.

“ReadyGlobal’s unique, industry-specific, assessment and online survey tools provide organizations with the tools they need to self-assess their current levels of preparedness and resiliency,” says Michael J. Boardman, ReadyGlobal’s CEO. “Our ReadyAssessment™ has received many positive reviews.”

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. 

About Ready Global

ReadyGlobal enables leaders from any organization to confidently assess and overcome critical threats with customized emergency preparedness and business continuity planning. Our comprehensive ReadySuite™ of onsite and virtual solutions empowers our clients and partners to effectively respond to any adversity, natural or humanmade, by fortifying an entire organization in key areas, including cloud-based response planning, pandemic wellness tracking; compliance and regulatory audit planning; crisis communications; cyber-security training; and more. Visit us online at: www.readyglobalnow.com.