Sponsored by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, every year September is recognized as National Preparedness Month (NPM) to promote personal and organizational preparedness throughout the year. Simple Tracking System (STS) celebrates NPM by highlighting how our technology can prepare your entity for the next emergency:
Assisted Living, Nursing Home, and Senior Center Facilities
Assisted living facilities are impacted by emergencies every day that may require them to evacuate their residents and staff and move them to safety. These emergencies range from fires and water main breaks to hurricanes, tornadoes, power outages, and flooding.
CMS is considering the expansion of emergency plan requirements to include evacuation procedures with a resident/staff tracking system. How does your agency account for residents and staff during an emergency evacuation? Does your facility have a method to notify family and loved ones of their residents’ safe location following the evacuation?
- Track residents during evacuations (from the emergency scene to a safe location and then to an alternative care facility)
- Notify family members and emergency contacts automatically
- Attach medical records to patient’s evacuation record for medical care transfer
- Customize systems to fit the needs and requirements of your facility
- Adhere to HIPAA rules and regulations
Additionally, STS assists in the identification and location of adults prone to wandering, such as those suffering from Alzheimer’s, dementia, autism, mental illness, etc. Facilities collaborate with local law enforcement to establish voluntary registries allowing family members to register their loved ones in case they go missing. If and when law enforcement makes contact with the missing individual, the database matches the individual to the registry record, immediately providing the identification and emergency contact information for the resident.
Hospitals & Healthcare Facilities
In large emergencies, the ability for a hospital to know the number of patients being transported, their injuries and triage status, and their exact location in route is invaluable. Additionally, following transfer of care, the ability to identify patients in order to reunify them with family and loved ones is critical.
- Track patients during evacuations (from the emergency scene to a safe location and then to an alternative care facility)
- Notify family members and emergency contacts automatically
- Attach medical records to patient’s evacuation record for medical care transfer
- Customize systems to fit the needs and requirements of your facility
- Adhere to HIPAA rules and regulations
EMS
When rendering aid in any sort of emergency or disaster situation, EMS needs a way to identify the number of patients, pinpoint their location throughout the response, know their injuries and triage status, and track the medical facilities they are being transported to.
Current systems require additional equipment, annual training, and frequent expense.
Designed by first responders for first responders, STS is your agency’s solution to patient tracking and reunification.
- Customize to collect the data your agency needs in real-time
- Scale to various response sizes as well as special events and drills/exercises
- Collaborate with other public safety entities for full-response tracking and reunification
- Integrate with existing response systems and records
- HIPAA-verified to protect the privacy of every patient
- Meets NFPA 3000 Standard for Active Shooter/Hostile Event Response Program
Emergency Management
In countless after-action reports, failures in family reunification continue to be highlighted, from families waiting hours to days for information on their loved ones to families traveling to several locations on their own searching for their loved one to incorrect information being shared about their loved one. Emergency management needs a reliable system in place to quickly and accurately identify victims and reunite families.
Designed by first responders for public safety, STS is your agency’s solution to reuniting families and providing peace of mind.
- Customize to collect the data your reunification center needs in real-time
- Scale to various response sizes as well as special events and drills/exercises
- Collaborate with other public safety entities for full-response tracking and reunification
- Integrate with existing response systems and records
- HIPAA-verified to protect the privacy of every patient
- Meets NFPA 3000 Standard for Active Shooter/Hostile Event Response Program
Fire Service
Firefighters respond to all types of emergency situations, from multi-vehicular accidents and structure fires to hazmat situations and flooding. The ability to document and track patients and evacuees from the first point of contact to transport and throughout the response is critical.
Current systems require additional equipment, annual training, and frequent expense.
Designed by first responders for first responders, Simple Tracking System is your agency’s solution to simple and accurate tracking.
- Customize to collect the data your agency needs in real-time
- Scale to various response sizes as well as special events and drills/exercises
- Collaborate with other public safety entities for full-response tracking and reunification
- Integrate with existing response systems and records
- HIPAA-verified to protect the privacy of every patient
- Meets NFPA 3000 Standard for Active Shooter/Hostile Event Response Program
Schools & Universities
When schools have to evacuate due to an emergency, they are responsible for accounting for the safe location of all students and staff. During routine evacuations, teachers can look at their class and easily spot who may be missing. However, more complex evacuations occurring during non-routine times, such as during lunch, recess, dismissal, assemblies, field trips, specials, and more. Non-routine evacuations require staff to account for students who may not be their direct responsibility, making it difficult to quickly identify any potentially missing students.
At the same time, evacuations during bomb threats or active shooters, may require a school to transport students and staff from their facility to an offsite location, account for their safe status, and then eventually release them to either a parent, guardian, or bus who will transport them back home. Evacuations requiring multiple accountability steps are difficult for schools to manage, especially during stressful and emotional times. Beyond, policies and procedures as well as standard drills and practice, a technology solution to assist schools in efficiently and effectively accounting for student’s safety will provide peace of mind to families, teachers, and administrators.