Incident Command System and
Hospital (Emergency) Incident Command System
Incident Command System: ICS
- ICS is one part of the National Incident Management System (NIMS)
- FEMA resources about ICS
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Hospital (Emergency) Incident Command System: H(E)ICS, HICS
- Hospital Incident Command System (HICS)
- HICS "resources" hosted on California State EMS website
- Hospital Incident Command System Guidebook: Fifth Edition, released May 2014
- See many key revisions to the 2014 HICS Guidebook from previous editions
- Downloadable 2014 Guidebook, appendices, graphics, and FAQs
- See key organizational diagrams on these pdf pages: 59-61, 64, 73, 78, 97
- See Table 2 for crosswalk of HICS 2006 Internal and External Scenarios to 2014 Scenarios (pdf pages 111-112)
- HICS overview
- Latest (May 2014) edition released by the California Emergency Medical Services Authority (EMSA) based on collaboration of many response entities.
- Provides a way to use the Incident Command System (ICS) in the hospital/healthcare setting, consistent with the National Incident Management System (NIMS)
- Designed to help hospitals (regardless of their size, location or patient care capabilities) and communities improve emergency management planning, response, and recovery activities for unplanned incidents and planned events
- Applicable to all kinds of emergency responses, not just radiation events, and is appropriate in small and large hospitals
- Review of evolving history of HICS projects (Wikipedia)
- HICS glossary (PDF - 7.81 KB) (from 2014 Edition)
- HICS description in radiation emergencies: Population Monitoring and Radionuclide Decorporation Following a Radiological or Nuclear Incident, (NCRP Report No. 166), Bethesda, MD, 2011. (See pages 45-52).
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