Health Care Coalition- Pediatric Surge Annex
The purpose of the Health Care Coalition Pediatric Surge Annex is to support the Florida’s Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan (CEMP) Appendix VIII: ESF8- Public Health and Medical Services- Patient Movement Support Standard Operating Guideline (hereafter referred to as: FDOH ESF8- Patient Movement Support SOG), by providing a functional annex for all stakeholders involved in an emergency response within the state of Florida and/or adjacent states in order to protect children and to provide appropriate pediatric medical care during a disaster. This annex guides the state level response on patient movement, system decompression, and resource allocation during a surge of pediatric patients that overwhelms the local healthcare system. This annex is intended to support, not replace, any agencies’ existing policies or plans by providing coordinated response actions in the case of pediatric emergency.
The purpose of Health Care Coalitions (HCC’s) are to ensure that local providers and other health care partners plan collaboratively for the risks facing the health care community and identify available local resources.

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