Emergency preparedness · Home health edition
Every Medicare-certified home health agency must maintain an emergency preparedness program — plan, risk assessment, training records, and an annual exercise with a written after-action review. This kit is all of it: six editable Word documents, written for home-based care, mapped tag-by-tag to what the surveyor checks.
The problem
Appendix Z was written for hospitals with preparedness departments — then applied to home health agencies with none. These are the tags that turn into deficiency citations when the documentation isn't there on survey day:
Surveyors want a facility- and community-based, all-hazards assessment — current, scored, and signed. A generic list from the internet doesn't survive questions.
One exercise every year, with a written after-action review and evidence the plan changed. "We handled a real storm" only counts if you documented it.
Initial training for every hire and refreshers at least every two years — with rosters, dates, and signatures a surveyor can put their finger on.
What's inside
Each template is written specifically for home-based care — patient classification instead of bed counts, phone trees instead of overhead pages — and states the E-tag it satisfies, so you always know why a page exists.
Scored hazard worksheets, top-five summary, and the patient-population snapshot surveyors ask about.
The flagship: full EP program with policies, patient classification, continuity, and communication plan — fill in the brackets and adopt.
Initial and biennial rosters, a ready-made training outline, and a 10-question knowledge check with answer key.
A facilitated 90-minute storm scenario with four injects, discussion scripts, sign-in sheet, and documentation form. Your annual exercise, handled.
The form that turns any exercise or real event into the analysis and corrective actions CMS expects to see.
Eight tabs, the questions surveyors actually ask, and a 30-day countdown that makes survey week boring.
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
Replace the bracketed placeholders with your agency's details, score your hazards, and classify your census. Everything is plain Word — no software to learn.
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.
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 six-nurse agency to the same standard as a hospital system — without giving it any of the tools. You shouldn't need a consultant retainer to prove you can take care of your patients in a storm. You need documents that are already 90% written, that a surveyor recognizes on sight."Dr. Arzoo Salami — practicing physician & founder, SurgeReady
Get the kit
Home health edition
$299 one-time
30-day guarantee: if your administrator doesn't think it will survive a survey, reply to your receipt for a full refund.
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.
Free sample
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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The 30-day organizer for the documents you already have: the 8-tab binder structure surveyors expect, the questions they actually ask, a day-by-day pre-survey countdown, and a self-audit form. Editable Word file. Your $49 counts toward the full kit for 30 days.
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Other facility types
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.
Home-based and facility-based patients, comfort-kit continuity, volunteers, on-call guidance for families — including a death during the emergency.
See the edition — $299Patients under anesthesia when the power fails: complete-vs-abort decisions, PACU transfer, tracking, closure and verified reopening.
See the edition — $299Closure decisions and community notification, the patients who can't wait a week, telehealth fallback, and vaccine cold-chain failure.
See the edition — $299MCI surge, mutual aid, recall tiers, and sustained storm operations — in the HSEEP format coalitions, states, and grant reviewers expect.
See the edition — $299The inpatient rule in full: two exercises a year, subsistence math, emergency power documentation, and the evacuate-vs-shelter decision.
See the edition — $299Beyond 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.
Questions
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.
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.
No. $299 once, files are yours forever, and updates for CMS revisions are included by email.
Yes — dedicated editions exist for hospices (42 CFR §418.113), ambulatory surgery centers (§416.54), rural health clinics (§491.12), critical access hospitals (§485.625), and EMS agencies (HSEEP-framed), each rewritten for that care model rather than find-and-replaced. See "Other facility types" above, or email us if you run more than one provider type.
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.