Common use of Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC Clause in Contracts

Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC. Awardees must describe in their all-hazards public health and medical emergency preparedness and response plans how they will use EMAC or other mutual aid agreements for medical and public health mutual aid to support coordinated activities and to share resources, facilities, services, and other potential support required when responding to emergencies that impact the public’s health. Awardees should work with state emergency management organizations and other related agencies to incorporate EMAC into training and exercises as a way to gain familiarity with processes for requesting and deploying resources through the EMAC system. Information regarding the ongoing development of public health mission ready packages (MRPs) can be found in the 2017-20122 HPP-PHEP Supplemental Guidelines. HPP Requirements HCCs in Response HCCs serve a communication and coordination role within their respective jurisdictions. This coordination ensures the integration of health care delivery into the broader community’s incident planning objectives and strategy development. It also ensures that resource needs that cannot be managed within the HCC itself are rapidly passed along to the ESF-8 lead agency. HCC coordination may occur at its own coordination center, the local EOC, or by virtual means – all of which are intended to interface with the ESF-8 lead agency. Coordination between the HCC and the ESF-8 lead agency can occur in a number of ways. Some HCCs serve as the ESF-8 lead agency for their jurisdictions. Others integrate with their ESF-8 lead agency through an identified designee at the jurisdiction’s EOC who represents HCC issues and needs and provides timely, efficient, and bidirectional information flow to support situational awareness. Regardless, HCCs connect the medical response elements and provide the coordination mechanism among health care organizations, including hospitals and EMS, emergency management organizations, and public health agencies. HPP awardees must ensure by the end of Budget Period 2 that their HCCs are engaged when an emergency with the potential to impact the public’s health occurs within their boundaries. The HCC and its members must, at a minimum, define and share essential elements of information (EEIs) to include elements of electronic health record and resource needs and availability. In particular, awardees must ensure the HCC is engaged when one or more health care organizations have lost capacity or ability to provide patient care or when a disruption to a health care organization requires evacuation. See also HPP requirements under Strategy 2, Activity 4: Ensure HCC Integration and Collaboration with ESF-8. PHEP Requirements/Recommendations PHEP awardees must conduct training for incident command and support personnel and drill and exercise the public health jurisdictional incident command structure. When possible, such training should include emergency management partners. In addition, awardees must ensure that local jurisdictions are involved in drills and exercises to improve implementation of the incident command structure as it applies to responding to public health threats and emergencies.

Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC. Awardees must describe in their all-hazards public health and medical emergency preparedness and response plans how they will use EMAC or other mutual aid agreements for medical and public health mutual aid to support coordinated activities and to share resources, facilities, services, and other potential support required when responding to emergencies that impact the public’s health. Awardees should work with state emergency management organizations and other related agencies to incorporate EMAC into training and exercises as a way to gain familiarity with processes for requesting and deploying resources through the EMAC system. Information regarding the ongoing development of public health mission ready packages (MRPs) can be found in the 2017-20122 HPP-PHEP Supplemental Guidelines. HPP Requirements HCCs in Response HCCs serve a communication and coordination role within their respective jurisdictions. This coordination ensures the integration of health care delivery into the broader community’s incident planning objectives and strategy development. It also ensures that resource needs that cannot be managed within the HCC itself are rapidly passed along to the ESF-8 lead agency. HCC coordination may occur at its own coordination center, the local EOC, or by virtual means – all of which are intended areintended to interface with the ESF-8 lead agency. Coordination between the HCC and the ESF-8 lead agency can occur in a number of ways. Some HCCs serve as the ESF-8 lead agency for their jurisdictions. Others integrate with their ESF-8 lead agency through an identified designee at the jurisdiction’s EOC who represents HCC issues and needs and provides timely, efficient, and bidirectional information flow to support situational awareness. Regardless, HCCs connect the medical response elements and provide the coordination mechanism among health care organizations, including hospitals and EMS, emergency management organizations, and public health agencies. HPP awardees must ensure by the end of Budget Period 2 that their HCCs are engaged when an emergency with the potential to impact the public’s health occurs within their boundaries. The HCC and its members must, at a minimum, define and share essential elements of information (EEIs) to include elements of electronic health record and resource needs and availability. In particular, awardees must ensure the HCC is engaged when one or more health care organizations have lost capacity or ability to provide patient care or when a disruption to a health care organization requires evacuation. See also HPP requirements under Strategy 2, Activity 4: Ensure HCC Integration and Collaboration with ESF-8. PHEP Requirements/Recommendations PHEP awardees must conduct training for incident command and support personnel and drill and exercise the public health jurisdictional incident command structure. When possible, such training should include emergency management partners. In addition, awardees must ensure that local jurisdictions are involved in drills and exercises to improve implementation of the incident command incidentcommand structure as it applies to responding to public health threats and emergencies.