Triage System How will you determine when to initiate the PsySTART Disaster Mental Health Triage System? Where will PsySTART Mental Health Triage be conducted (ie, Emergency Department or?) Who is responsible for overseeing the PsySTART Disaster Mental Health Triage System and who will actually conduct PsySTART mental health triage? How will each PsySTART triage level be managed by your facility? How will referrals for mental health and/or spiritual care follow-up be completed? Who will be responsible for handling the entry of triage information into the LAC PsySTART System (web application at la.psystart.net)? For the PsySTART Staff Self-Assessment System: How will your facility determine when to initiate the PsySTART Staff System? Who is responsible for overseeing the PsySTART Staff Self-Assessment System? Will your facility ask staff to fill out and turn in to their supervisor the PsySTART Staff Self Triage System form and/or will our facility just ask supervisors to fill out the PsySTART Staff Self Triage System Team Leader Summary Form for the unit/section? How will aggregated staff triage information be used to support staff Scenarios (Appendix I) to help participants to better focus on response and implementation issues. (The correct answers to questions 3-6 should be arrived at using the HICS JAS sheets for the PsySTART Disaster Mental Health Triage System (Appendix J): HICS- Mental Health Unit Leader with PsySTART Triage Manager Component Job Action Sheet HICS – Mental Health Triage (PsySTART) Manager Job Action Sheet) Use PsySTART (Disaster Mental Triage System) scenarios with the two above JAS- if needed.) (The correct answers to questions 2-6 should be arrived at using the HICs JAS sheets for the PsySTART Staff System: HICS-Employee Health & Well-Being Unit Leader with PsySTART Staff Triage Component (Appendix J) Use PsySTART (Staff-Self System) scenarios with the above JAS- if needed.)
your hospital/clinic following major disasters? What specific updates will be needed to disaster forms, policies, facility EOP or other systems in your facility? Who is responsible to make these changes? Are the responsibility clearly articulated in your EOP, policies, and procedures? Should your facility produce a customized version of the PsySTART CONOPS? Who is responsible for this? For the PsySTART Staff Self-Assessment System: What processes need to be in place, and what challenges need to be overcome in order to successfully initiate and use PsySTART Staff System triage in your hospital/clinic following major disasters? What specific updates will be needed to disaster forms, policies, facility EOP or other systems in your facility? Who is responsible to make these changes? Are the responsibility clearly articulated in your EOP, policies, and procedures? Should your facility produce a customized version of the PsySTART CONOPS? Who is responsible for this? If deficiencies are noted in the EOP or policies/procedures, ensure that these are noted and captured by the evaluators. For question 4, the facilitator should refer to the PsySTART Disaster Mental Health Triage Systems Concept of Operations (CONOPS) Toolkit for the Los Angeles County Emergency Medical Services Agency. This is the document that a facility can edit and use to produce a “customized” PsySTART Disaster Mental Health Triage Systems CONOPS. The ideal outcome for questions 1-3 is a list/Improvement Plan of specific procedures, plans, policies, challenges, solutions with a responsible person(s) identified next to each item. If deficiencies are noted in the EOP or policies/procedures, ensure that these are noted and captured by the evaluators. For question 4, the facilitator should refer to the PsySTART Disaster Mental Health Triage Systems Concept of Operations
PsySTART Healthcare Facility Tabletop Exercise Worksheet: Opportunities for Improvement, Recommendations to EOP, Policies/Procedures Topic from Exercise Evaluation Elements Opportunities for Improvement Recommendations Priority Exercise Part I-The Decision to Initiate Use of the PsySTART Disaster Mental Health Triage Systems For the PsySTART Disaster Mental Health Triage System How will you determine when to activate the PsySTART Mental Health Triage System? A. Was a process for determining when to use activate PsySTART Disaster Mental Health Triage System identified? Y / N / U B. Was the healthcare facility’s EOP helpful in making this determination? Y / N / U C. Were the Job Action Sheets or other specific policies or procedures helpful in making this determination? Y / N / U Where will PsySTART mental Health Triage by conducted (ie, Emergency Department or?) Who is responsible for overseeing the PsySTART Disaster Mental Health Triage System and who will actually conduct PsySTART mental health triage? A. Was the location where PsySTART Disaster Mental Health Triage System would be conducted identified? Y / N / U B. Was an individual identified as responsible for making this decision? Y / N / U C. Were staff to conduct PsySTART mental health triage identified? Y / N / U D. Was the hospital EOP used in identifying
information into the LAC PsySTART system (web application at la.psystart.net)? U For the PsySTART Staff Self-Assessment System: How will your facility determine when to initiate the PsySTART Staff Self-Assessment System? Who is responsible for overseeing the PsySTART Staff Self-Assessment System? A. Was a process for determining when to use activate PsySTART Staff Self-Assessment System identified? Y / N / U B. Was an individual(s) identified as responsible for making this decision and overseeing the PsySTART Staff System? Y / N / U C. Was the healthcare facility’s EOP or customized PsySTART CONOPS helpful in making this determination? Y / N / U D. Was the Job Action Sheet or other specific policies or procedures helpful in making this determination? Y / N / U Will your facility ask staff to fill out A. Was a decision made regarding how the facility
mental health follow up? Y / N / U When and how will your facility offer “Anticipate, Plan and Resilience of Healthcare Workers” training? A. Did the facility identify a plan for how “Anticipate, Plan and Resilience of Healthcare Workers” training for staff would be offered prior to and/or during disasters? Y / N / U Exercise Part II - What is Needed to Implement the PsySTART Mental Health Triage Systems? For the PsySTART Disaster Mental Health Triage System: What processes need to be in place, and what challenges need to be overcome in order to successfully initiate and use PsySTART Disaster Mental Health Triage System triage in your hospital/clinic following major disasters? What specific updates will be For questions 1-3, did the facility develop a list/Improvement Plan of specific procedures, plans, policies, challenges, solutions with a responsible person(s) identified next to each item? Y / N / U
place, and what challenges need to be overcome in order to successfully initiate and use PsySTART Staff System triage in your facility following major disasters? What specific updates will be needed to disaster forms, policies, facility EOP or other systems in your facility? Who is responsible to make these changes? Are the responsibility clearly articulated in your EOP, policies, and procedures? Should your facility produce a customized version of the PsySTART CONOPS? Who is of specific procedures, plans, policies, challenges, solutions with a responsible person(s) identified next to each item? Y / N / U B. For question 4, did the facility refer to the PsySTART Disaster Mental Health Triage Systems Concept of Operations
Appendix J— HICS Mental Health Job Action Sheets with PsySTART Component HICS- Mental Health Unit Leader with PsySTART Triage Manager Component Job Action Sheet (Insert link from the EMS Agency website with JAS – TBD.) HICS – Mental Health Triage (PsySTART) Manager Job Action Sheet (Insert link from the EMS Agency website with JAS – TBD.) HICS - Employee Health & Well-Being Unit Leader with PsySTART Staff Triage Component (Insert link from the EMS Agency website with JAS – TBD.) Appendix K — PsySTART Disaster Mental Health Triage Forms PsySTART Disaster Mental Health Triage System “Exercise Only” Form (Insert link from the EMS Agency website with form – TBD.) PsySTART Self-Triage System (Single Day version) (Insert link from the EMS Agency website with form – TBD.) PsySTART Staff Self-Triage System (Multi Day version) (Insert link from the EMS Agency website with JAS – TBD.) PsySTART Staff Self-Triage System – Team Leader Summary Form (Insert link from the EMS Agency website with JAS – TBD.)