What is required to be shared with the hospital’s community emergency response agencies?

The most important items to be shared with the emergency response agencies are the Hazard Vulnerability Analysis (HVA), the Emergency Operations Plan (EOP), and the Evacuation Plan. The hospital should attempt to cooperate and collaborate with these authorities to ensure plans are shared for the good of the community. These documents show that the hospital has assessed the likelihood of an adverse event and the effect it would have on operations, the hospital’s plan to continue operations while experienceing the adverse event, and the hospital’s plan for evacuating if it became necessary to do so.