Continuity-Presentation-to-Dept-Managers.ppt

Bussiness conitunity is essential element

1. Utilizing Your Business Continuity Plan
Presentation for
Hospital Department Managers

2. Key Terms
•Business Continuity Plan (BCP) – A comprehensive written
plan to maintain or resume business in the event of a disruption
•Critical Process – Business activity or information which could
not be interrupted or unavailable for several business days
without significantly jeopardizing operation of the organization
•Recovery Time Objective (RTO) – The maximum amount of
downtime that is allowable for a critical process before the impact
becomes severe enough to drastically hinder patient safety and/or
stop the continuation of business services
•Recovery Time Actual (RTA) – The actual time it takes to
restore an IS application
•Critical Records – Records or documents that, for legal,
regulatory, or operational reasons, cannot be irretrievably lost or
damaged without materially impairing the organization’s ability to
conduct business

3. Why Have a BCP?
•Purpose:
–The ultimate goal of Business Continuity Planning
is to resume business functions to a normal state
after a period of time post event

4. Why Have a BCP?
•Benefits
–Continuation of patient services
–Fulfill moral responsibility to protect:
Employees
The community
The environment
–Facilitates compliance with regulatory requirements

5. Why Have a BCP?
•Enhances ability to reduce:
–Disruptions to service delivery
–Financial losses
–Regulatory fines
–Loss of market share
–Damages to equipment

6. What is it?
•The Business Continuity Plan is a dynamic tool
utilized to maintain and/or resume business
operations
•Provides information regarding:
–Critical Business Processes
–Critical Equipment and Resources
–IS Applications
–Staff Positions
–Critical Records
–Departmental Dependencies

7. When Do You Use the BCP?
•The BCP
 will be used in emergencies and other catastrophic
events where the building or a department is severely
impacted:
–The loss of service poses significant physical,
operational,
 and business challenges and risks
–Continuity of the service, somewhere within the facility, is
integral to ongoing facility viability and community support
•The BCP will be used in addition to the Emergency Operations
Plan (EOP) to resume/return business functions to a normal
state post-disaster

8. The BCP Tool
The Business Continuity Plan Tool is segmented into
multiple Microsoft Excel tabs:
•The Tiers tab
–Critical Processes are
prioritized into tiers based on
operational periods:
Tier 1 (0-2 hours)
Tier 2 (2-12 hours)
Tier 3 (12-24 hours)
Tier 4 (1-3 days)
Tier 5 (4-7 days)
Tier 6 (8-14 days)
Tier 7 (15-30 days)
Tier 8 (31+ days)
–Within each tier critical business
processes are prioritized to rank
their order of importance
•The Department Tab
–Lists the specific critical business
processes and resources
needed to provide patient care
and continue operations

9. BCP: Tiers Tab
•Each Tier lists departments
alphabetically and prioritizes
their critical business functions
•During an incident, the Tiers Tab
can be used as a worksheet to
track which critical business
processes are operational and if
work-arounds are available
•The prioritization of critical
business functions aids the
Incident Commander, the
Planning Section Chief, and the
Business Continuity Branch
Director in establishing
operational objectives and
identifying resources

10. BCP: Department Tab
Department specific information can
be accessed two ways:
1. Navigate to the name of the
department to open specific department
tab
–For example, to go to the Emergency
Department, click on the Emergency
Department link (circled in green)
2. Use the Excel tabs
–Click on the desired department at the
bottom of Excel to open (orange circle)
3. Print Entire Workbook
–Click on the Print All Worksheets button
to print all the department worksheets
(blue square)
* Hard copies, electronic copies, or
intranet copies are also available through
the Emergency Management Coordinator

11. BCP: Critical Business
Processes
•This view provides:
–Business Processes
–Established priorities
–RTO Tiers
•During an incident, the Tiers
Tab can also be used as a
worksheet to track which
critical business processes
are operational and if work
arounds are available
•Can print specific section by
clicking on the Print Critical
Bus. Process button

12. BCP: Critical Equipment or
Resources
•This view denotes what
equipment/resources are needed
to ensure critical processes are
operational within specified
operational periods and includes:
–Type of Equipment
–Normal Levels
–RTOs
•During the incident, this
worksheet can be used to:
–Assess gaps between current
inventory and actual need
–Evaluate relocation strategies
•To print this specific section click
on the print button

13. BCP: IS Technology
Applications
•This section lists the IS
technology needs for the
departments
−IS Resources
−Work around availability
−RTO Tiers
−RTA
•During the incident, the
worksheet can be completed
to:
−Estimate IS Resources
needed
−Assess technology gaps
•Print by clicking the print
button
Print IS Technology Applications

14. BCP: Staff Positions
•This view lists the staff required for each operational period:
–Staffing positions required based on RTO
–Identifies whether the staffing position has to be physically
present or can telecommute
•During the incident, worksheet can be used to:
–Track staffing requirements and assess gaps
•Click on the Print Staffing Positions button to print this specific
section

15. BCP: Critical Records
•Section lists the Critical Records
required for that department:
–Type of Record
–Relevance of records
–Media Type
–Physical Protection
–Alternate or Backup Source
–Function Without
–Have Downtime Manual
–Regulatory Requirements
–Reporting Agency
–Reporting Scheduling
–RTO requirements
•During the incident, worksheet
can be used to:
−Track critical records requirements and
assess gaps
•Print specific section by clicking
on the Print Critical Records
button

16. BCP: Departmental
Dependencies


•This view provides a list of
“other” departments that
are needed to ensure that
the critical process is
operational,
•Information includes:
–Internal vs. external
–Location
–Contact information
•Print this section by
clicking on the Print
Dependencies button

17. How to Use the BCP:
Concept of Operations
Upon activation of HICS:
• The IC will:
–Provide initial briefing to Command Staff & Section Chiefs
–Facilitate a management meeting utilizing the Incident Response
Guide (IRG) to establish control objectives
•Each department will assess the status of their area to
determine continuity of operations by completing a Department
Status Form
–Upon completion, the form will be submitted to the Planning Chief.
–The Planning Section will collect the Department Status Forms
and utilize the Department Status Summary form to report
information to the Incident Commander.

18. Department Status Forms
•Department Status Form
−Purpose: Documents operational
status of departments: # of
injuries, staff census, general
patient census, utilities issues,
equipment needs
−Originator: Department Managers
−When: onset of the incident and
prior to shift change
−Copies to: Upon completion, the
form will be submitted to the
Planning Chief

19. Department Status Summary
•Department Status Summary
–Purpose: to assist in establishing operational objectives
–Originator: Situation Unit Leader
–When: onset of the incident and prior to shift change
–Follow up: report to IC & Section Chiefs

20. BCP: Concept of Operations
•The Incident Commander may activate the Business
Continuity Branch to ensure continuity of operations
as needed
–The function of the Business Continuity Branch is to assist
impacted areas with ensuring that critical business
functions are maintained, restored, or augmented to
meet the designated Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and
recovery strategies outlined in the areas’ business
continuity and business resumption plans

21. BCP: Concept of Operations
•The Business Continuity Branch activities include:
–Evaluation of the impacted areas to ascertain business
function capability
–Facilitate the acquisition of and access to essential
recovery resources, including business records (i.e.,
patient medical records, purchasing contract, etc.)

22. BCP: Concept of Operations
•Support the Infrastructure and Security Branches
with needed movement or relocation to alternate
business operation sites
•Coordinate with the Logistics Section
Communication Unit Leader, IT/IS Unit Leader,
and the impacted area to restore business
functions and review technology requirements
•Assist other branches and impacted areas with
the restoring and resuming of normal operation

23. BCP: Concept of Operations
•The Planning Section Chief or Business Continuity
Branch Director, in collaboration with the manager(s)
from the impacted departments, will use the BCP to
identify resources needed to ensure continuity of
critical processes within the recovery time objectives
•The IAP will include recovery strategies as applicable
•Upon completion, the IAP will be approved by the
Incident Commander
•Section Chiefs will provide an operational briefing to
section members:
–Overview of IAP
–Assign task
–Assign roles

24. Questions
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