Fatality Management. Introduction
Fatality Management. PHEP 5.1 Identify Role with Partners (Awardee)
Fatality Management. 11.5.1 Definition: Fatality management is the ability to coordinate with other organizations (e.g., law enforcement, healthcare, emergency management, and medical examiner/coroner) to ensure the proper recovery, handling, identification, transportation, tracking, storage and disposal of human remains and personal effects; certify cause of death; and facilitate access to mental/ behavioral health services to the family members, responders and survivors of an incident.
Fatality Management. All entities responsible for completion of a given performance element must have completed the performance element in order to answer “Yes” to Question 2. For the awardee to enter “Yes” on Question 2 for that performance element, the 5 funded LHDs (not 10) must have completed it. If the awardee itself was responsible for completion of a different performance element, it could only enter “Yes” on Question 2 for its performance element once it has been completed by the awardee. Pre-Incident Once the main office and the 4 regional offices have done so, the awardee may enter “Yes” on Question 2 for those performance elements. If, in this example, the awardee main office is the only entity responsible for completing a performance element (i.e., it does not assign any responsibility to any of its regions), then it may enter “Yes” once it (the main office) has completed the performance element. Response • Contracts • Emergency Operations Plans (EOP) and annexes, which describe roles and responsibilities of jurisdictional agencies • Letters of Agreement • Memoranda of Agreement (MOA) • Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) • Mutual Aid Agreements • Any other official document which describes the role of public health and carries with it an expectation that public health will undertake certain fatality management-related activities. Responsible entity or entities: A responsible entity or entities refers to an organization at the awardee or sub- awardee level that is accountable for completing the specific activity or performance element associated with one or more PHEP performance measures. Pre-Incident Response
Fatality Management. Introduction <.. image(Hurricane Public Domain Image 13454 from xxxx://xxxx.xxx.xxx) removed ..> Fatality management refers to the recovery, handling, identification, transportation, tracking, storage, and disposal of human remains, certifying cause of death, and facilitating access to mental/behavioral health and related services for survivors of the deceased. Preparing for mass-fatality incidents requires collaboration among a variety of agencies, including public health departments, to help ensure a coordinated and thorough response. The fatality management preincident planning measure is designed to encourage public health departments to collaborate with emergency management, law enforcement, medical examiners, coroners, funeral directors, and other key partners to determine what role public health will play in managing significant numbers of fatalities or in supporting the management of fatalities by other agencies. An assumption
Fatality Management. Introduction Capability Functions Fatality Management
Fatality Management. Measure 5.1: Percent of healthcare coalitions (HCCs) that have systems and processes in place to manage mass fatalities consistent with their defined roles and responsibilities. Performance Target: 100% by the end of the project period (Year 1 data will be used to establish baselines) Data Elements: ▪ Has the HCC established systems and processes to manage mass fatalities consistent with its defined roles and responsibilities including but not limited to the following: ▪ Ensuring that systems and processes are aligned with the local jurisdictional EOP or fatality management plan.
Fatality Management. Definition: Fatality management is the ability to coordinate with other organizations (e.g., law enforcement, healthcare, emergency management, and medical examiner/coroner) to ensure the proper recovery, handling, identification, transportation, tracking, storage and disposal of human remains and personal effects; certify cause of death; and facilitate access to mental/ behavioral health services to the family members, responders and survivors of an incident. Budget Period Short Term Goal: Goal 1. Identify specific roles and support functions between Arizona Department of Health, county Public Health, law enforcement, medical examiners, and private sector partners during a Fatality Management response. Goal 2. Coordinate between internal and external partners to facilitate access to resources when demand on local jurisdiction exceeds capacity to support fatalities from an incident. Ensure resource request are in accordance with public health jurisdictional standards and practices and as requested by lead jurisdictional authority. This will result in the development and implementation of resource request process. Goal 3. Survey county and tribal partners to identify training in support of Fatality Management operations to include: mental/behavioral health services, death notification, relief to families, and spiritual care. Utilization of a survey prior to and post training will measure increased knowledge.
Fatality Management. 2.1 Definition: Fatality management is the ability to coordinate with other organizations (e.g., law enforcement, healthcare, emergency management, and medical examiner/coroner) to ensure the proper recovery, handling, identification, transportation, tracking, storage and disposal of human remains and personal effects; certify cause of death; and facilitate access to mental/ behavioral health services to the family members, responders and survivors of an incident; and
2.2 Develop/Update Written Plans to Include: Processes and protocols developed in conjunction with jurisdictional mental/behavioral health partners to identify services to provide to survivors after an incident involving fatalities. Written plans shall include a contact list of pre-identified resources that shall provide mental/behavioral health support to responders and families according to the incident. Consideration shall be given to the inclusion of the following elements:
2.2.1 Mental/behavioral health professionals,
2.2.2 Spiritual care providers,
2.2.3 Hospices,
2.2.4 Translators, and
2.2.5 Embassy and Consulate representatives when international victims are involved.
Fatality Management. Introduction <.. image(Hurricane Public Domain Image 13454 from xxxx://xxxx.xxx.xxx) removed ..> Fatality management refers to the recovery, handling, identification, transportation, tracking, storage, and disposal of human remains, certifying cause of death, and facilitating access to mental/behavioral health and related services. Preparing for mass fatality incidents requires collaboration among a variety of agencies, including health departments, to help ensure a coordinated and thorough response. The fatality management pre-incident planning measure is designed to encourage health departments to collaborate with emergency management, law enforcement, medical examiners, coroners, funeral directors, and other key partners to determine what role public health will play in managing significant numbers of fatalities – or in supporting the management of fatalities by other agencies. It is understood that a health department’s role in this capability (i.e., from no role due to legislation/regulation to a supporting role in any number of the capability functions) will vary depending on the jurisdiction. As long as a health department determines its role in conjunction with its key partners, it has met the intent of this measure. Depending on its role, all elements within the measure may not be required to meet full capability based on awardee-determined role in fatality management.
1. Determine role for public health in fatality management
2. Activate public health fatality management operations
3. Assist in the collection and dissemination of antemortem data
4. Participate in survivor mental/behavioral health services
5. Participate in fatality processing and storage operations Alignment of Performance Measures to Capability Why is this measure important? What data must be reported?
