Emergency Preparedness
LCS Group Purchasing can help your community stay prepared by providing competitive rates on products and services critical to the health and safety of your community and residents during, before and after emergencies.
Stay Prepared
Residents choose senior living communities for a sense of security and peace of mind. To prepare for emergencies, these communities must plan for dire conditions like hurricanes, earthquakes, fires, tornadoes, or blizzards. Early preparation and proper planning are essential.
Effective emergency preparedness for senior living involves utilizing operational resources, ensuring adequate supplies, access to essential medications, staffing, and facilities, and having a robust financial and communications strategy. Guidelines should cover actions during and after an emergency.
Partnering with LCS Group Purchasing enhances preparedness by providing access to resources and support, ensuring necessary supplies, creating senior living safety and security programs, and guidance during crises. This collaboration helps communities focus on residents' safety and well-being.
Emergency Preparedness Plan
A comprehensive emergency preparedness plan touches multiple operational facets.
Prior to an emergency, senior living communities should have a disaster response planning meeting that encompasses several variables:
- Harness operational resources
- Train staff in disaster response
- Run emergency drills
- Establish evacuation plans
- Develop vendor relationships
- Prepare financially
- Ensure power backup solutions
- Create communications plan
While much of the work of preparing for an emergency situation needs to take place prior to the event, there is still a great deal of work to be done during the event to avoid unnecessary risk:
- Assess energy needs
- Enable communication channels
- Crisis Management
- Log all communication
- Ensure privacy
- Provide additional supplies
- Staff adequately
- Be flexible
After an emergency event, senior living communities still need to closely monitor multiple components to mitigate risk:
- Harness operational resources
- Provide relief staff
- Attend to residents’ personal needs
- Communicate recovery plans
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