Specific Areas in the Guidance (PART 3 of 5)

End-of-Year :               100% of Awardees conduct statewide and regional exercises that incorporate NIMS concepts and principles and include hospitals during the current project period.

H2.1.             The number of participating hospitals that demonstrate dedicated, redundant communications capability during an exercise or incident, as evidenced by exercise evaluations or after action reports at least once during the current project period. - Page 35

Note:   To demonstrate efficacy of a back-up communications system, the usual primary system needs to be compromised, requiring that a different communications system actually be put to use.

- Numerator :   The number of participating hospitals that demonstrated communications    capability.

- Denominator :   The total number of participating hospitals

ASPR FY08 Targets (Measure H2.1.):

Mid-Year:             50% of participating hospitals demonstrated dedicated, redundant communications capability during an exercise or incident, as evidenced by exercise evaluations or after action reports at least once during the current project period.

End-of-Year :      100% of participating hospitals demonstrated dedicated, redundant communications capability during an exercise or incident, as evidenced by exercise evaluations or after action reports at least once during the current project period.

H3.1.             The number of participating hospitals that demonstrate sustained two-way communications capability with the local EOC and Tier 2 partners during an exercise or incident, as evidenced by exercise evaluations or after action reports at least once during the current project period. - Page 36

Note:   For the purposes of this measure, sustained two-way communications is the ability to send and receive information and messages from the same location for an extended period of time.

- Numerator :   The number of participating hospitals that demonstrated the sustained two-way communications capability with the Local EOC and Tier 2 partners during an exercise or incident.

- Denominator :   The total number of participating hospitals.

ASPR FY08 Targets (Measure H3.1.):

Mid-Year:             50% of participating hospitals that demonstrate sustained two-way communications capability with the local EOC and Tier 2 partners during an exercise or incident, as evidenced by exercise evaluations or after action reports at least once during the current project period.

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