In North America and increasingly around the world, the Incident Management System (IMS) is the recognized standard among fire services, police and emergency medical services. Now, it is being adopted by hospitals and many other health care providers.IMS is the essential tool for coordinated, effective, multi-agency responses to emergency incidents. It allows for a common approach between emergency services and health care providers in terms of standardization of language, enhanced communication, and management of human and physical resources.

This program is also available on a regional basis. For information or to schedule a program in your area, please contact Margaux Booth, Educational Services at 416 -205 -1347 or e-mail: mbooth@oha.com

Developed by the Ontario Hospital Association in cooperation with Toronto Emergency Medical Services.
 

 Program Objectives:

• Provide an overview and understanding of IMS
• Enable health care providers to take action to implement IMS in their organizations
• Promote partnerships and enhanced communication between the health care sector and other first responders
• Standardize the approach health care providers use in dealing with emergency management
• Provide a basic tool kit to support the development of IMS within the health care sector
• Demonstrate how to apply IMS to hospital emergency codes

Program leaders will use a variety of tools to assist with the completion of the program objectives. These include:

• Presentations by subject experts from emergency and health care services
• Audiovisual aids, e.g. videos, PowerPoint presentations, etc.
• Group discussions, break out sessions and assignments
• Handouts that include implementation guidelines and checklists

 

Program Outline:

Overview of emergency legislation, the IMS model and application to various environments

• Police/fire/EMS/public health & other health care organizations
• Risks & risk assessment (all hazards)
• Command centres (hospital/municipal/provincial/federal)

Functions, roles and responsibilities
• Command flowchart
• Incident manager/command/transfer of command
• Resources/equipment/reporting Health care-based incident management
• Application of IMS to codes e.g. external disaster, critical infrastructure events & evacuation
• Case studies and exercise scenarios
• Operations centre/resources/equipment
• Emergency exercise planning
• Templates/checklists. 

Completion Criteria
Successful completion of the Incident Management System (IMS) for Health Care Facilities is based on attendance (80%), and in- class exercises and participation in group activities (20%). A certificate of completion will be issued to participants who successfully complete all components of the program.

Registration information: Payment of the registration fee is required when registration is submitted in order to guarantee your spot in the course.

Fee:  $703.81 plus HST* ($91.39) = $795.20

* PLEASE NOTE: Harmonized Sales Tax (13%) is in effect as of July 1st, 2010.