Upcoming Meetings and Events:
Florida Severe Weather Awareness Week
February 11-15, 2013
For information on daily weather events and the statewide tornado drill on Wednesday, February 13, 2013 at 10:10am ET, visit www.FloridaDisaster.org. Review your disaster plans and sign up for the FKDC Piecing Together Preparedness Program.
Coalition Teleconference:
Thursday
February 28, 2013
1pm ET
Email fkdc@nw7.esrd.net for more information.
Mission Statement: To establish and facilitate partnerships
that provide a
framework for disaster readiness and continuity of care for the renal community
Sensipar (Cinacalcet Hydrochloride): Drug Safety Communication
Recall of All Lots of OMONTYS® (peginesatide) Injection
Emergency Preparedness Patient Training
The facility must provide appropriate orientation and training to patients, including:
- What to do;
- Where to go, including instructions for occasions when the geographic area of the dialysis facility must be evacuated;
- Whom to contact if an emergency occurs while the patient is not in the dialysis facility. This contact information must include an alternate emergency phone number for the facility for instances when the dialysis facility is unable to receive phone calls due to an emergency situation (unless the facility has the ability to forward calls to a working phone number under such emergency conditions); and
- How to disconnect themselves from the dialysis machine if an emergency occurs
- Patient To Do List
- READY Packet
- Disabilities Special Needs Brochure
- Older Americans Brochure
- Ready America Brochure
- Pet Owners Brochure
- Ready.gov Public Service Announcements
- CMS Guide for Patients
- National Kidney Foundation's "Planning for Emergencies"
- Patient Emergency Preparedness Plan
- Additional Resources
- Disaster Preparedness for Transplant Patients
- Emergency Renal Diet
- H1N1 patient handout
- Items for Special Need Shelter
- Preparedness for Peritoneal Dialysis Patients
- Who to Contact
This website is designed by FMQAI: The Florida ESRD Network while under contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Baltimore, Maryland Contract #HHSM-500-2013-NW007C. The contents presented do not necessarily reflect CMS policy.