FEMA Recognizes King County’s Long Term Care Mutual Aid Plan
FEMA’s Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP) recognized the King County Long Term Care Mutual Aid Plan as a grant “success story” in its November newsletter. The article outlines the work done by the “committed working group, strong leadership team, exemplary consultant support, and a significant number of long term care facilities in [the Puget Sound]” who developed and signed a voluntary mutual aid agreement to assist each other and share resources in the case of a facility evacuation. “Key [protocols] keep medical records and patient information with the patient as they are transferred between facilities, and to notify their family and primary care physician of the move. The plan also identified over 700 transportation assets that reside at various long term care facilities which can be made available to transport patients during an evacuation event.”