The following page lists the overall priority categories for the HSO, and departments or faculty should use these if involved in hospital activities or patient care in any way. Priority 1 Critical for patient care Personnel, building systems, equipment, and supplies needed to maintain the minimal institutional ability to diagnose, treat, and manage patients for emergency situations. Operating room and emergency room lights, power and ventilation, laminar air flow, oxygen and suction supply, pharmaceuticals, food, building air handling, limited number of elevators, critical lab and radiology services, emergency phones, and paging. Items essential for patient life support such as ventilators, cardiac monitors, telemetry systems, safety alarms, oximeters, defibrillators, infusion pumps, external pacemakers. Priority 2 Systems, equipment and supplies whose failure will put us out of business Personnel, building systems, equipment, and supplies necessary for a minimal safe environment for our patients, staff, and animals, and for the minimal institutional ability to diagnose, treat, and manage patients.
Examples are gases, tissue culture media, key chemicals, plastic ware, and radioisotopes.
Essential equipment required to carry out obligations under funded research in order to meet Y2K standards of funding entities. This would include special environments that house specimens or in which experiments are conducted and computers that record, store, analyze, and transmit critical scientific data. Systems that store patient data, billing information, patient contacts, EMR, financial records, laboratory requests, and information required for regulatory agencies. Equipment other than Priority 2 required to carry out obligations under funded research in order to meet Y2K standards of funding agencies. Priority 4 Important Personnel, equipment, and supplies that make it more comfortable for the staff to deliver services and faculty to carry out normal functions.