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All of our facilities in SD County (6) are fully staffed and operational. We have had no interruptions of service. We have taken in between 40-50 evacuees from hospitals and SNFs. Our headquarters was evacuated Monday morning and within 2 hours we set up a remote emergency response center in Temecula where a team monitored and communicated fire activity continuously to our SD facilities. Facility leaders in our 6 SD facilities (and 3 facilities in Orange and San Bernardino Counties) worked brilliantly to ensure continuity of supply lines, staffing, and proper communication with local emergency management (including CDPH). Facility staff responded swiftly and resourcefully and were able to actively admit medical evacuees since Monday. At least three of our staff members lost their homes and many more simply do not know the fate of theirs. Remarkably these same people stayed at their posts cheerfully caring for residents, calming their fears and comforting families. We have taken aggressive precautions against sustained power outages and air quality issues. We positioned large portable generators to augment existing generators where air quality is poor so we can maintain air handling equipment that the original generator systems were not designed to support. Facilities significantly improved internal air quality by using air filtration equipment that we pre-positioned as a result of the 2003 Cedar Fire. We also deployed the first of potentially a series of RVs at our Oceanside facility to staff a place to sleep and change clothes when off shift in circumstances where they were evacuated from their homes or volunteered to stay for multiple shifts. This was calculated to both help dislocated staff members and keep them close to the facility to keep staffing levels high for our residents. Our facility leaders have taken existing evacuation plans and turned them into dynamic multi-layered plans that address potential evacuation route restrictions and potential long range transport. Fortunately we have not had to use these plans but we are ready should things change. Each facility has been in active communication with local sheriff, fire and CDPH authorities throughout and continues to apprise them of our status. We were grateful for the CAHF evacuation considerations that your team circulated. We distributed this widely and discussed the suggestions with administrative and clinical staff at all levels. The emergency response center we put together supplied fire and other important intelligence around the clock since Monday, which allowed us to plan in real time and adapt plans to meet the changing fire patterns and resulting evacuation route restrictions. Not over yet, but we are poised to meet what comes next. Paul, Mark and Scott |
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