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should be contacted directly for assistance
that has been offered. The senior adminis-
trator (or designee) of the recipient or patient-
transferring hospital will coordinate directly
with the senior administrator (or designee) of
the donor or patient-accepting hospital for this
assistance.
recipient hospital will identify to the donor
hospital the following:
a. The
type
and number of
requested
personnel.
b. An estimate of how quickly the request is
needed.
c. The location where they are to report.
d. An estimate of how long the personnel will
be needed.
2.
Documentation
: The arriving donated
personnel will be required to present their
donor hospital identification badge at the
site designated by the recipient hospital's
command center. The recipient hospital will
be responsible for the following:
a. Meeting the arriving donated personnel
(usually by the recipient hospital's security
department or designated employee).
b. Confirming the donated personnel's ID
badge with the list of personnel provided
by the donor hospital.
c. Providing additional identification, e.g.,
“visiting personnel” badge, to the arriving
donated personnel.
The recipient hospital will accept the profes-
sional credentialing determination of the donor
hospital but only for those services for which
the personnel are credentialed at
3.
Initiation of transfer of personnel, material
resources, or patients
: Only the senior hospital
administrator or designee at each hospital has
the authority to initiate the transfer or receipt of
personnel, material resources, or patients. The
senior administrator (or designee) and medical
director, in conjunction with the directors of
the affected services, will make a determi-
nation as to whether medical staff and other
personnel from another facility will be required
at the impacted hospital to assist in patient care
activities.
Personnel offered by donor hospitals
should be limited to staff that are
fully accred-
ited or credentialed in the donor institu-
tion
. No resident physicians, medical/nursing
students, or in-training persons should be
volunteered. In the event of the evacua-
tion of patients, the medical director of the
patient-transferring hospital will also notify the
(name of local) fire department of its situa-
tion and seek assistance, if necessary, from the
emergency medical services. (Name of local)
fire department will be requested to notify
the (name of local) emergency management
agency and the (name of local) public health
department.
the donor
hospital.
3.
Supervision
: The recipient hospital's senior
administrator or designee, (the command
center) identifies where and to whom the
donated personnel are to report, and profes-
sional staff of the recipient hospital super-
vise the donated personnel. The supervisor
or designee will meet the donated personnel
at the point of entry of the facility and
brief the donated personnel of the situa-
tion and their assignments. If appropriate,
the “emergency staffing” rules of the recip-
ient hospital will govern assigned shifts. The
donated personnel's shift, however, should not
be longer than the customary length practiced
at the donor hospital.
4.
Legal and financial liability
: Liability claims,
malpractice claims, disability claims, attorneys'
VI. Specific Principles of
Understanding
A. Medical Operations/Loaning
Personnel
1.
Communication of request
: The request for
the transfer of personnel initially can be
made verbally. The request, however, must
be followed up with written documentation.
This should ideally occur prior to the arrival
of personnel at
the recipient hospital. The
