The newly released HICS Guidebook and Education Materials offer unprecedented assistance to hospitals in improving emergency preparedness and incident management.

HICS is an incident management system based on the Incident Command System (ICS) that assists hospitals in improving their emergency management planning, response and recovery capabilities for unplanned and planned events.

HICS will strengthen hospital disaster preparedness activities in conjunction with community response agencies and allow hospitals to understand and assist in implementing the 17 Elements of the hospital-based NIMS guidelines.

Complete details available at: http://www.emsa.ca.gov/hics/hics.asp