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Massachusetts Long Term Care Mutual Aid Plan (MassMAP) for Evacuation / Resources and Assets
MassMAP establishes a course of action and an agreed commitment among participating nursing homes, assisted living residences and residential care facilities (rest homes) to assist each other as needed in the time of a disaster.
Assistance may come in the form of:
- Providing pre-designated evacuation locations for residents during a disaster; and/or
- Providing or sharing supplies, equipment, transportation, staff or pharmaceuticals to a facility when a disaster overwhelms their own community or exceeds the capability of internal emergency preparedness plans.
Why should you join this initiative ?
While your facility may already be part of a community based Mutual Aid Plan or incorporated into your Company’s overall emergency and/or evacuation plan process this unique statewide plan will supplement those existing resources when the local or corporate plan is overwhelmed by a regional disaster.
Benefits to participating include:
- Preplanned Evacuation Strategy - fast evacuation (e.g., Fire/Gas Leak) and delayed evacuation (e.g., Hurricane/Loss of Emergency Power).
- Preplanned Supply, Equipment and Pharmaceutical Support when isolated.
- Provide local public safety incident commanders with easy on-site access to user-friendly plans including contact information for evacuation resources and key personnel.
- Provide local EMS commander with resources needed to efficiently identify, transfer and track residents to pre-designated receiving sites and facilities.
- Development of proactive Communications for ALL parties (healthcare, emergency agencies).
- Plan requirements meet DPH, Elder Affairs and Joint Commission disaster exercise requirements and allow for community participation in disaster preparedness and exercises.
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