Emergency preparedness · Surgery center edition
Every Medicare-certified ambulatory surgery center must maintain an emergency preparedness program — plan, risk assessment, staff training, and an annual exercise with a written after-action review. This kit is all of it: six editable Word documents built around the patients on your table and in your PACU, mapped tag-by-tag to what the surveyor checks.
The problem
An ASC's emergency isn't a shelter-in-place problem — it's a patient under general anesthesia when the grid fails. These are the questions that turn into deficiency citations on survey day:
Surveyors want a facility-based, all-hazards assessment that reflects your reality: case mix, generator scope, PACU capacity, transfer distance — current, scored, and signed.
One exercise every year with a written after-action review. "We'd handle it" is not documentation, and surveyors ask for your last two exercises by name.
"The power fails mid-procedure — walk me through it." Complete-vs-abort authority, transfer procedure, patient tracking. Surveyors ask to see the transfer agreement itself.
What's inside
Each template is written specifically for surgical care — patient phases instead of bed counts, tracking logs instead of shelter plans — and states the E-tag it satisfies.
Scored hazard worksheets, top-five summary, and the operational exposure snapshot — cases per day, anesthesia mix, generator scope, transfer distance.
The flagship: patient-phase procedures (pre-op, intra-op, PACU), complete-vs-abort authority, evacuation and tracking, verified reopening criteria.
Initial and biennial rosters, a training outline covering evacuation and transfer roles, and a 10-question knowledge check with answer key.
A facilitated 90-minute scenario — grid failure with a degraded generator and two ORs running — with sign-in sheet and documentation form.
The form that turns any exercise or real event into the analysis and corrective actions CMS expects to see.
Eight tabs — including your transfer agreement where surveyors expect it — the questions they actually ask, and a 30-day countdown.
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 center's details, score your hazards, and complete the facility snapshot. 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 physician-owned surgery center 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 protect a patient who's asleep on your table. You need documents that are already 90% written, that a surveyor recognizes on sight."Dr. Arzoo Salami — practicing physician & founder, SurgeReady
Get the kit
Surgery center 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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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 patients, classification rosters, field staff — the original edition of the kit.
See the edition — $299Home- and facility-based patients, comfort-kit continuity, volunteers, on-call guidance for families — including a death during the emergency.
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, patient tracking, 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.
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.
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.