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State Emergency Software Applications:

  • HAN (Maine health Alert network)
  • WEBEOC (web based, local, county/state emergency operations center)
  • EM Resource (Statewide Hospital Status-test version)
  • Maine Responds(Maine Emergency Volunteer Registry Portal)
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Regional Communications Monthly Drills 1/14/11

SMRRC is continuing an effort to improve hospital/medical facility emergency communications in our region (Cumberland, York, Sagadahoc and Lincoln counties), and to make alternate emergency communications a normal part of emergency training.

We request all hospital/medical facilities make a monthly “call in” with their Base Station VHF radios and also if they have them, their satellite phones and that this to be part of routine hospital/medical facility emergency staff training. Also we would like to have each facility sign onto WeBEOC software and make a test message to their "county web bulliten board". When signing onto WeBEOC make sure to sign on with: "your name""-"facility name". Also please sign onto EMResource and populate all fields including bed tracking for that day and time. For instructions on WeBEOC and EMResource contact Paul Weiss.

Details:

  1. If using Sat Phones: dial in once each Quarter to the following number, and leave a message with the date and facility name.  207-662-3954
  2. For Base Station Radios: Call your county EMA offices via their county EMA radio channel or other appropriate channel.
County EMA radio call in schedule

York County EMA does theirs on First Tuesday of the Month between 10-11 AM* (Frequency 159.780 PL 156.7)
Cumberland County EMA does theirs on Second Thursday of the Month between 1:45PM and at 2 PM Please have your radio on at 1:45PM to listen. If you do not hear your hospital name called, please call out to CCEMA* (Frequency 155.760 PL 192.8)
Lincoln County EMA does their on the 22 of every month or the Monday after the weekend (if it lands on a weekend). EMA (call into Miles Memorial and St Andrews Hospital ED Depts), since there is no seperate EMA Frequency, the call in is done on Fire County Dispatch (Frequency 155.985)

*All EMA offices will accommodate any special time/date requests you have for your facility if you cannot make this schedule.

More information:

  1. Hospitals/medical facilities should contact their EMA office to obtain a memorandum of understanding (signed agreement) to use County EMA or other radio frequencies, prior to use.
  2. Hospital/medical facility should have these frequencies programmed into their radio.
  3. Hospital/medical facility should train several staff on all shifts including weekends/evenings to do these “call in” drills.
  4. We will post the results of these drills on the SMRRC website.
  5. On call in, just state your hospital name and date of call (we just want to hear that your radio and or satellite phone works). 

If you have any questions on this program, please feel free to contact:

Paul Weiss
Acting Director and Programmer/Analyst and Communications
Southern Maine Regional Resource Center for Health Emergency Preparedness
Maine Medical Center
22 Bramhall Street
Portland, ME 04102
weissp@mmc.org
Phone (207) 662-3954
Fax (207) 662-5139
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