• Description of the Disaster Medical Services Division
• Current DMS Activities
• Regional Disaster Medical Health Coordinator (RDMHC)

Current Hot Topics:

• HICS: Hospital Incident Command System, 2014 HICS Revision
• Hazard Vulnerability Assessment (xls) (Kaiser Permanente Model)

Hospitals and Hospital Emergency Management Topics:

• HICS: Hospital Incident Command System, 2014
• HICS: Hospital Incident Command System, 2006
• NIMS Alert for Hospitals from FEMA and HRSA (doc)
• Recommendations for Hospitals: Decontamination Processes and Facilities
• EMTs and Paramedics Practicing while on Mutual Aid Deployment (doc)
• California Hospital Bioterrorism Response Planning Guide – July 2002 (pdf)
• Hospital & EMS Final Security Levels (doc)

Resource Materials – Disaster Medical Plans, Protocols and Reports:

• Public Health and Medical Emergency Operations Manual (EOM) (pdf)
• California EMS Authority
• Mass Fatality Management Guide 2013 (pdf)
• NHTSA – EMS Pandemic Flu Guidelines
• NHTSA – Preparing for Pandemic Influenza: Recommendations for Protocol Development for 9-1-1 Personnel and Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs)
• CDC Smallpox Information
• DHS – Latest Information on Smallpox
• Blueprint for EMS Response to Terrorism (doc), (English-Ukrainian), Anna Loboda MD, Daniel Smiley, Svetlana Sinelnik MD, Georgiy Roschcin MD; NATO Internship in Science Policy, 2004
• Transformation from Planning to Operations: Emergency Medical Services in Disaster Response (pdf), Daniel Smiley, Anna Loboda MD, Cheryl Starling, Jeff Rubin, Annals of Disaster Medicine, Vol 1, No 3, 2004
• Mass Prophylaxis Planning Guide (pdf) , (doc)
• Disaster Medical Systems Guidelines (doc)
• Shelter Medical Group Toolkit (pdf) , (doc)