Implementation of the Hospital Emergency Incident Command System
Implementation of the Hospital Emergency Incident Command System Hospital Emergency Incidence Command System (HEICS) was established to assist medical facilities during times of crisis. Although the original version was developed in 1991, there have revisions, but the content has remained almost the same. Initially, HEICS was developed to assist individual medical facilities to handle issues of crisis. However, evidence has shown that a certain degree of external intervention might be required to integrate HEICS into the culture of a medical facility (AHA, 2016). For example, in order to work, one has to make a tour to a facility using ...