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Control Number: <br />401.06.03.041 <br />Version: <br />4.0 <br />Title: <br />Emergency Services <br /> <br />Page Number: <br />2 of 6 <br /> <br />Idaho Department of Correction <br /> <br />PURPOSE <br />The purpose of this standard operating procedure (SOP) is to establish procedures for <br />emergency healthcare response planning. <br />RESPONSIBILITY <br />Health Services Director <br />The health services director, or designee, is responsible for: <br />• Monitoring and overseeing all aspects of healthcare services. <br />• The implementation and continued practice of the provisions provided in this SOP. <br />When healthcare services are privatized, he will also be responsible for: <br />• Reviewing and approving (prior to implementation) all applicable contract medical <br />provider policy, procedure, and forms. <br />• Monitoring the contract medical provider’s performance, to include but not limited <br />to reviewing processes, procedures, forms, and protocols employed by the <br />contract medical provider to ensure compliance with all healthcare-related <br />requirements provided in respective contractual agreements, this SOP, and in <br />National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC) standard P-E-08, <br />Emergency Services. (See section 4 of this SOP). <br />Contract Medical Provider <br />When healthcare services are privatized, the contract medical provider is responsible <br />for: <br />• Implementing and practicing all provisions of this SOP, unless specifically exempted <br />by written contractual agreements. <br />• Ensuring that all aspects of this SOP and NCCHC standard P-E-08 are addressed by <br />applicable contract medical provider policy and procedure. <br />• Ensuring facility health authorities utilize all applicable contract medical provider <br />policy, procedure, forms, and educational information to fulfill all healthcare-related <br />requirements provided in this SOP, NCCHC standard P-E-08, or as indicated in their <br />respective contractual agreement(s). <br />• Developing a detailed, uniform, mandatory inventory list of supplies (must be <br />approved by the health services director, or designee,) to be included in each man- <br />down kit. <br />Note: ‘Man-down’ refers to any individual who is in need of immediate medical <br />intervention and the ‘kit’ refers to packaged emergency medical response supplies. <br />• Ensuring all applicable contract medical provider policy, procedure, and forms (to <br />include the mandatory inventory list of supplies) are submitted to the health services <br />director, or designee, for review and approval prior to implementation. <br />• Ensuring the facility health services administrator, or designee, (1) procures the <br />required mandatory inventory supplies and (2) maintains the inventory.