The medical surge response plan for your community will most likely become the Health and Medical Emergency Support Function Annex of your local jurisdiction’s Emergency Operations Plan.
It is advised to use the plan development and format
accepted by the National Incident
Management System and the New
Mexico State All Hazards Plan.
Your local emergency manager is your point of contact for plan writing.
The Planning Toolkit has guidance for plan development utilizing all eleven
NM MEMS functions beginning with the two core functions:
Alternate Inpatient
Care Areas (AICA)
Alternate Outpatient Care Areas (AOCA)
The nine support
NM MEMS functions include:
Incident Management
Public Information
Point of
Dispensing Sites (PODS)
Communication Interoperability
Patient Transportation
System
Community Outreach Network
Psychosocial Network
Fatality Management
Resource Management
