The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) requires that health centers test their emergency preparedness plans annually. A tabletop exercise may be acceptable to satisfy this requirement if conducted every 2 years. Below is a list of tabletop exercises that health centers - and other healthcare providers - can use to fulfill CMS' final rule requirements.
Natural Disasters
Pandemics
Terrorism
Technology Malfunction
Funding for this project has been provided by the National Network of Public Health Institutes (NNPHI) through a Cooperative Agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC – OT18-1802). Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.