Disaster plan

A facility shall have a written disaster plan to accommodate emergencies. The disaster plan must allow the department or custodial agency to identify, locate, and ensure continuity of services to residents who are displaced or adversely affected by a disaster. The disaster plan must address how to accommodate accessibility needs for all residents and personnel. The facility shall ensure the disaster plan specifies: 1. Where personnel and residents would go in an evacuation, including one location in the nearby area and one location out of the area; 2. Contact information inclusive of phone numbers and electronic mail addresses for facility administration; 3. A list of items the facility will take if evacuated, including any demographic and emergency contact information for each resident and medication and medical equipment to meet the needs of residents; 4. The process the facility will use to inform the department and each resident's custodian and parent or guardian if the resident is displaced or adversely affected by a disaster; 5. Employee training on the disaster plan must detail procedures for meeting disaster emergencies. The review of the disaster plan must occur with employees on an annual basis to ensure it is current, accurate, and employees understand their role. The facility shall document the annual review and provide the documentation to the department upon request; 6. Resident training on the disaster plan ensuring awareness of all emergency and evacuation procedures upon admission to the facility. These procedures must be reviewed upon intake into the facility and every quarter. Resident training must include the performance and documentation of fire evacuation drills; 7. The facility has telephones centrally located and readily available for use in each living unit of the facility. Emergency numbers must be written and posted by each telephone; 8. There must be at least two independent exits from every floor. The exits must be located so that residents can exit from each floor in two separate directions, without going through a furnace room, storage room, or other hazardous area; and 9. Flashlights must be available for emergency purposes.