Emergency Operations Plan versus Emergency Management Plan

[Jennifer Lord]

Need some expert opinion:

What is the difference between an Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) that the Joint Commission dictates for hospitals and an Emergency Management Plan (EMP) for healthcare other than hospitals.  

While at The Joint Commission Emergency Management conference last week I asked for an explanation and was told that EMP's focus on Mitigation, Preparedness, Response and Recovery (MPRR) while an EOP focuses on the 6 critical areas as well as MPRR. I have been pouring over the Standards guides for the different healthcare sectors and I can't discern a difference. Both talk about MPRR AND the 6 critical areas. 

Got any interpretation that will help me understand the difference? 

thanks,

Jenn

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[Valague, Esmeralda]

Jenn,

 

The easiest way to explain it is that the emergency management plan talks about how the organization manages all 4 phases of emergency management, all the time. It talks about committee work and trainings and drills and evaluations and goals for how to  make your organization better prepared/more resilient.

 

Emergency Management Plan = Comprehensive EM PROGRAM information.

 

The EOP is a set of guidelines and procedures for when there is an INCIDENT. It’s a response/recovery (insofar that recovery always goes concurrent with response) only type document.  

 

EOP = Response Operations Strategy/Tactics/Continuity.  

 

Does that help?

 

Esmeralda Valague, MA, NCPT

Regional HAZMAT and

Emergency Preparedness Manager

 

CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Health System

Extending the healing ministry of Jesus Christ

 

Office: 210-704-3905 Cell: 713-503-5636

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CSR Emergency Preparedness

 

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[Jim Tritten]

And don’t forget to consider Emergency ACTION Plans required by OSHA!

 

Anyway, I take the EOP primarily as a “Response” phase plan – but it’s squishy and there is certainly overlap. The EMP is a more comprehensive programmatic plan which included annual evaluations, committee documents, MOUs, etc.

 

Here is an old TOC from one of mine here:

Program Scope ............................................................................................................................ 3

Program Objectives ..................................................................................................................... 4

Program Organization, Roles, and Responsibilities .........................................................................5

Program Performance Monitoring ............................................................................................... 8

Surveillance Checklist ................................................................................................................. 10

Emergency Management Committee Charter ............................................................................. 11

Annual Program Evaluation Tool ................................................................................................. 15

Staff Orientation and Education ................................................................................................. 16

Memorandums of Understanding .............................................................................................. 16

Drills and Exercises ..................................................................................................................... 16

Facility Descriptions.................................................................................................................... 17

Statistics (May 2008) .................................................................................................................. 19

Hazard and Vulnerability Assessment ......................................................................................... 20

Authority .................................................................................................................................. 21

 

Jim

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[Sloan, Nick]

I agree with Esmeralda. That is the simplest way to look at it. The EOP is a response document.

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[James Payne]

The way I like to describe the difference is the EMP provides *managerial policy* and the EOP provides *operational procedures*.  The EMP focuses on mitigation and preparedness (the managerial stuff done on a daily basis) and the EOP focuses on response and recovery. The EOP can and should include the 6 critical areas, developed as Annexes to the EOP.  The two parts together comprise your Comprehensive Emergency Management Program. 

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[Jennifer Lord]

Thanks everyone. Your input has been very helpful!

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[Schmitz, Jenny]

Interesting topic as we just had our JC visit last week and this came up in our EM session.  I have distinguished mine in a similar way as other described.  I have an official Denver Health Policy called the Emergency Management Program that I use as the “emergency management plan” that describes the program scope, 4 phases, and overall planning responsibility.  This policy refers to the Emergency Operations Plan as the guiding response document.  The Surveyor was very happy with these documents during the review session.      

 

As a side note about the survey, in both the EOC session and the EM session (back-to-back but separate groups), the Surveyor asked a few  people directly “what keeps you up at night?”  When someone answered, he wanted to see the plans for that specific event.   

 

Thanks,

Jenny

 

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[Valague, Esmeralda]

You mean he was not satisfied with an all-hazards response plan? He wanted a bunch of annexes for every possible event?

Esmeralda Valague, MA, NCPT

Regional HAZMAT and

Emergency Preparedness Manager

 

CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Health System

Extending the healing ministry of Jesus Christ

 

Office: 210-704-3905 Cell: 713-503-5636

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CSR Emergency Preparedness

 

[Danny]

I don't know, I think this seems to be more a question of semantics while it should depend on how you integrate the two. or just use one for both 'tasks'.
It reminds of me of issues involved when you are trying to plan for special needs... in the end you have to become so plitically correct that the original intent becomes lost.

[Schmitz, Jenny]

Nope – he liked the all-hazards layout that I have with my EOP.

 

His thought was that if there are events that “keep us up at night,” we should have mitigated, prepared, and planned to respond to those events.   For example, my Director of Engineering said that he worries about water.  The Surveyor then asked to see our 96 hours assessment for water, what capabilities and redundancies we have, what we have done to mitigate and prepare, and then asked about any exercises we’ve done with this scenario (we used this for our last hospital evacuation exercise in 2012).      

 

JS