Sharing a Common Operating Picture

Objectives• Know your potential partners and their

resources • Understand health care planner needs for

advance planning and exercising patient movement

• Understand potential sources of patients/patient transportation

• Understand Cross Border efforts and accomplishments

- http://www.spokanecounty.org/video/vod.aspx?v=/emergencymgmt/megaquake.flv&deptid=62 - http://earthalerts.manyjourneys.com/web/

Your Potential Partners and Resources

All Disciplines within:• County• Region• State• Tribal• Cross border

Planning and Exercising• Local EMS, EM, DSHS, OSPI, Tribal• EMS and Auxiliary Facts and Matrices

• Regional• Region 1 Coalition• Puget Sound Emergency Triage and Prehospital

Treat (PETT)• Cross Border – British Columbia http://

www.pnwbha.org • British Columbia Ambulance Service (BCAS)

Potential Sources of Patients• EMS and Auxiliary Transport Facts and

Matrices• Self Present• Communications: who, what, and how

Next Steps• Communicate this information to your

partners • Update your capabilities with DOH:

Mike.smith@doh.wa.gov • New ideas and resources

DOH Cross-Border Efforts• Develop Relationships• Understand Capabilities• Licensing Issues• “The Border”• The Future

Develop Relationships• Annual Cross-Border Conference• Job Exchange• Regular Conference Calls• Planning• Real Incident

• Exercising together

Understand Capabilities• Different Systems• Medical Assets• FMS/SNS/etc…• MMU/NESS/etc…

• How to get the assets

Licensing Issues• Different Systems• Who does licensing

• How to approve Licenses/Certifications• BC Bill 43

• Will hospitals accept credentials

“The Border”• Working with Border Agencies• Communications

• Process for moving;• People• Things

The Future• Decreasing Funding• Needs to be a part of normal business

• Beyond the Border Initiative

CONTACTS• Michael L. Smith

mike.smith@doh.wa.gov

• Dan Banksdan.banks@doh.wa.gov

Thank You“A kind and understanding attempt at positive

communications goes a long way to goal accomplishment”