SurgeReady Ready-Kit 42 CFR §485.625 · SOM Appendix Z

Emergency preparedness · Critical access hospital edition

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in a weekend.
Not a citation.

Critical access hospitals carry the Emergency Preparedness Rule's fullest requirements — two exercises a year, subsistence for patients and staff, emergency power documentation, and patient tracking. This kit is all of it: six editable Word documents built for a small hospital that is also its community's receiving point, mapped tag-by-tag to what the surveyor checks.

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Three printed documents from the critical access hospital kit fanned out: the Emergency Operations Plan, the Tabletop Exercise Kit, and the After-Action Review & Improvement Plan, each with the SurgeReady Ready-Kit Critical Access Hospital Edition cover design
6 documentsEOP, risk assessment, exercise, AAR, training log, binder checklist
Every E-tag mappedEach template states the requirement it satisfies
Editable .docxYour agency's name, your hazards, your logo — not a PDF you can't touch

The problem

The fullest version of the rule — enforced on the smallest hospitals.

Inpatient providers carry requirements the outpatient world never sees, and a 15-bed rural hospital gets surveyed on all of them:

E-0039 ×2

TWO exercises a year, documented

One full-scale or functional exercise annually plus a second of choice — with after-action reviews a surveyor can hold. Twice the cadence, twice the paper trail.

E-0015

Subsistence nobody has done the math on

Food, water, and pharmaceuticals for patients AND staff, with alternate means of keeping temperatures, lighting, and sewage running. "Dietary would handle it" is a citation.

E-0041

Emergency power: they ask for the logs

Generator scope, testing records, and the fuel contract itself. Surveyors don't ask whether you have a generator — they ask what it doesn't power.

What's inside

Six documents. Eight binder tabs. One boring survey.

Each template is written for a small inpatient facility — evacuate-vs-shelter doctrine, subsistence math, tracking forms, surge reception — and states the E-tag it satisfies.

Not a 300-page manual. Every document is built to be completed, signed, and put in a binder — because a plan that exists is worth more than a plan that impresses.

How it works

Download Friday. Adopt Monday.

Hour one

Make it yours

Replace the bracketed placeholders with your hospital's details, score your hazards, and complete the facility snapshot. Everything is plain Word — no software to learn.

This month

Train and exercise

Run the 30-minute staff training from the outline, then the 90-minute tabletop with your team. Sign-in sheets and documentation forms are included.

Survey day

Hand over the binder

Eight tabs, everything current and signed. The surveyor's emergency-preparedness review becomes a ten-minute conversation.

"I built this kit because the Emergency Preparedness Rule holds a 15-bed rural hospital to its fullest inpatient standard — two exercises a year, subsistence, emergency power — with a fraction of a big system's staff. You shouldn't need a consultant retainer to prove your community's only hospital can keep its patients safe for 72 dark hours. You need documents that are already 90% written, that a surveyor recognizes on sight."
Dr. Arzoo Salami — practicing physician & founder, SurgeReady

Get the kit

Less than one hour of a consultant's time.

Critical access hospital edition

$299 one-time

  • All six documents as editable Microsoft Word files
  • E-tag mapping on every template
  • Tabletop scenario + alternate outbreak scenario
  • Knowledge check with answer key
  • Free updates when CMS revises Appendix Z
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By purchasing you agree to the Terms of Service. The kit is a set of professional templates — not legal or regulatory advice — and must be customized to your organization. No survey outcome is guaranteed.

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See the quality before you buy.

Download the All-Hazards Risk Assessment Worksheet — a complete document from the kit, free. It's the page E-0006 citations hinge on, and the fastest way to judge whether the rest is worth $299.

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Other facility types

Same rule. Different care model. Dedicated editions.

The Emergency Preparedness Rule covers seventeen provider types — and a surgery center's emergency is nothing like a home health agency's. Each edition is rewritten for its care model: what the surveyor checks, what your staff actually do, and the exercise that fits your day.

§484.102

Home Health

Home-based patients, classification rosters, field staff — the original edition of the kit.

See the edition — $299
§418.113

Hospice

Home- and facility-based patients, comfort-kit continuity, volunteers, on-call guidance for families — including a death during the emergency.

See the edition — $299
§416.54

Surgery Center

Patients under anesthesia when the power fails: complete-vs-abort decisions, PACU transfer, tracking, closure and verified reopening.

See the edition — $299
§491.12

Rural Health Clinic

Closure decisions and community notification, the patients who can't wait a week, telehealth fallback, and vaccine cold-chain failure.

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HSEEP

EMS Agency

MCI surge, mutual aid, recall tiers, and sustained storm operations — in the HSEEP format coalitions, states, and grant reviewers expect.

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Beyond the binder · SurgeReady Software

Templates make you survey-ready. The software runs the drill itself: evaluators tap observations on phones, command watches live, and the HSEEP After-Action Report writes itself the moment you close the exercise. Founding-agency pilot now open.
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Questions

Asked by every administrator so far

Will this pass my state's survey, or just federal?

The kit is built on the federal requirements (42 CFR §484.102 and Appendix Z) that every state surveyor applies. Some states add requirements on top — the EOP includes a section to record yours, and the checklist prompts you to verify state rules during customization.

We had a real emergency last year. Do we still need an exercise?

A documented real activation counts — it exempts you from the next required full-scale exercise for one year, if you wrote it up. The After-Action Review form in the kit is exactly that documentation.

Is this a subscription?

No. $299 once, files are yours forever, and updates for CMS revisions are included by email.

We're a different provider type. Is there an edition for us?

Editions exist for home health agencies (42 CFR §484.102), hospices (§418.113), ambulatory surgery centers (§416.54), rural health clinics (§491.12), critical access hospitals (§485.625), and EMS agencies (HSEEP-framed) — see "Other facility types" above. Run more than one provider type? Email us about a bundle.

Is this legal advice?

No. It's a professionally drafted documentation starting point that you customize and your leadership adopts. Regulations change — verify current requirements, and consult counsel for legal questions.