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NORTHERN COCHISE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL
Incident Response Guide: Infectious Disease
Mission
- To effectively and efficiently identify, triage, isolate, treat, and track a surge of potentially infectious patients and staff, and to manage the uninjured, asymptomatic persons, family members, and media.
Directions
- Read this entire response guide and review the Hospital Incident Management Team Activation Chart.
- Use this response guide as a checklist to ensure all tasks are addressed and completed.
Objectives
- Identify, triage, isolate, and treat infectious patients.
- Protect patients and staff from exposure and injury.
- Assure safety and security for patients, staff, visitors, and the hospital.
- Admit a large number of infectious patients while protecting other (uninfected) patients.
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