HCS 446 Week 5 Final Assignment Environmental Impact Presentation

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Develop a Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation with 4-5 slides and detailed speaker’s notes.


  • Disaster management in Alabama (TEAM C)


    • Note. Each Learning Team is assigned a different area so there is no duplication. The outline is used to prepare for the final presentation in Week Five.

Include the following information in your presentation:

The FOCUS of each topic is as it relates to health care setting (hospital, long-term care, clinic etc).

Include the following information in your presentation:

  • Examine local, state, and federal legal and regulatory requirements. Consider the following agencies:
    • Occupational Safety and Health Administration
    • Joint Commission of the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
    • Your state's health planning and development agency
    • Department of Health and Human Services
    • Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments and other agencies as applicable to facility planning
    • Discuss the Certificate of Need (CON) program for your state? If so, explain the program. If there is not a CON for your state, was there one in the past and when was it eliminated?

List the stakeholders that may play a role in your development.

Team C- Outline Disasters.docx


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Environmental Impact Outline 1 Team C Environmental Impact Outline April 20, 2015 L’Tanya Michelle Simien- Robnett Environmental Impact Outline 2 I. Introduction A. Types of Disasters 1. Natural Disaster a.. Hail, earthquakes, hurricanes, etc. b. Natural disasters are those that humans cannot prevent but they can take steps to help prepare for the disasters. B. Environmental Disaster 1. Power blackout, Oil spills, forest fires, etc a. Humans can contribute to environmental disasters and it could lead to thousands of humans or animals being affected depending on the severity and the kind of disaster. II. Environmental Impact A. What effect does disaster management have on environmental impact? 1. Disaster management can implement plans that will help the public in preparation for the disasters and how or what they can do to ensure they are safe as well as their families. lll. Stakeholders that may play a part in our development A. Local, State, Federal agencies 1. Police Department 2. Fire Department 3. Inspectors Environmental Impact Outline 3 4. City Manager B. Disaster Victims (Citizens) 1. Any citizen involved in the disaster C. Contractors 1. Contractors who built the facility that was destroyed 2. Contractors that will rebuild the facility that was destroyed D. Close by Associations 1. Near by buildings/businesses/companies that the disaster may affect E. Media 1. Reporters 2. Camera Men 3. News lV. Ways to improve the environmental impact and possible suggestions or solutions A. Fundraisers 1. Ways to gather enough profit to rebuild 2. Donated money/clothing/needs for victims B. Gather Non-Profit Organizations 1. Non-Profit Organizations will ensure that people in need will continue to get help 2. Canned Goods, bottled water, etc. V. Current Solutions With Environmental Impact A. Man-made or Natural Disaster 1. How does a government agency respond to man-made or natural disasters? Environmental Impact Outline 4 a. Whether a disaster is man-made or a natural disaster governmental agencies such as Fema, help by responding to disasters because of the wide impact that can be felt across a state as well as the people. b. Natural disasters occur everywhere in the world and in the healthcare setting having a known and established disaster plan are essential so that people can be protected as well as individual's health. B. Hurricane Katrina ( 2005) 1. Flood Disaster a. 90 % of New Orleans was flooded by Hurricane Katrina b. The water could cause molds to grow, endotoxin levels to rise, little clean drinking water, spoiled food, West Nile virus concerns, and many other causes for a person to be sick (Frank, 2012). VI. Improving State disasters A. Comprising various departments 1. One is department of health and human service in health care facilities. There should be some specialist who will be set aside whom their work will be to attend to disasters when they happen and at immediate effect. B. Local Requirements C. Federal Regulations Requirements D. Federal Legal Requirements VII. Certificate of Need A. State Approvals Environmental Impact Outline 5 1. One state requirement is that it requires a health care provider to get state approval first before building certain types of facilities B. Joint Commission 1. They will help by making all the arrangements of the assets that will be involved in disaster management, for example by providing vehicles to health facilities. C. Technical Assistance 1. The purpose of it is to help ensure that facilities and new services proposed by health care providers are needed for quality patient care within a particular region or community. 2. They have helped a lot in the state as they are the one who have enhanced good services in health care facility (Wall,2011). D. Laboratory Improvements 1. Those clinical laboratories that are in health facilities should be improved in a way that they will be faster to examine a patient so as to be treated in faster way. 2. Having these improvement in the health sectors, am totally sure that disasters will be minimized and loses that are mostly endured due to disaster will be minimized. VIII. Conclusion A. Natural and Environmental Disasters Environmental Impact Outline 1. Any type of disaster always cause some kind of harm or hardship on someone or something and we should all pull together to help the environment and protect ourselves. 6 Environmental Impact Outline 7 References: Disaster Management.Retrieved From:http://www.disastermgmt.org/type/types.html Frank, B., (2012). The Health Effects of Hurricane Katrina, retrieved from http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/health/case_studies/hurricane_Katrina.html Kahn, L. H., & Barondess, J. A. (2008). Preparing for disaster: Response matrices in the USA and UK. Journal of Urban Health, 85(6), 910-22. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11524-0089310-y Training.fema.gov., Stakeholder Information Retrieved From: http://training.fema.gov/hiedu/downloads/hdr/session%204%20powerpoint.pdf Wall, B. M. (2011). American Catholic hospitals: A century of changing markets and missions. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press. What is disaster management? Retrieved From: www.wcpt.org/disaster-management/what-isdisaster-management
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