The Louisiana Region 4 Healthcare Coalition hosted a tabletop exercise focused on a pandemic flu type of event at Acadian Ambulance’s National EMS Academy auditorium on March 13, 2019. Nearly 150 representatives were present for the discussions and exercises. Region 4 covers Acadia, Evangeline, Iberia, Lafayette, St. Landry, St. Martin and St. Mary parishes.
Those who participated in the exercise represented:
- Hospitals
- Ambulatory surgical centers
- Hospices
- Psychiatric residential treatment facilities
- Programs for all-inclusive care of the elderly (PACE)
- Transplant centers
- Long-term care facilities
- Intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities (ICF/IID)
- Comprehensive outpatient rehab facilities (CORF)
- Organ procurement organizations
- End-stage renal disease facilities
- Home health agencies
- Rural health clinics
- Federally qualified health centers
- Providers of outpatient physical therapy and speech-language pathology services
- Community mental health centers
- Representatives from parish offices of homeland security and emergency preparedness, public health, EMS and other community partners
Acadian Ambulance also demonstrated how medics drape an ambulance when it transports a patient with a highly infectious disease to a specialized facility. The demonstration was completed as part of Acadian’s contract with the state of Louisiana as the EBOLA/Highly Infectious Disease transport provider.
