Are You Ready for a Blizzard?

With a winter storm set to wallop the Midwest this week, this seemed like a perfect time to talk about how you handle winter weather around your facility. Pam West, ProMed's Vice President of Clinical and Regulatory Compliance, remembers doing the following when she was an administrator at a long-term care facility:

• Filling the rehab room with mattresses so that staff could sleep there if they couldn't get home safely
• Providing free meals to employees who were snowbound in the building (she recommends stocking up on food just in case and considering using disposable dishes)
• Sending snowmobiles and cabs to pick up staff members and bring them to the facility

Tell us - what does YOUR facility do when storms hit?