Health-Care and Supportive Services in General Population Disaster Shelters

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2023-08-22

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Milburn, Ashlea Bennett, Charleen C. McNeill, Lauren Clay, Janice Springer, and Mary Casey-Lockyer. “Health-Care and Supportive Services in General Population Disaster Shelters.” Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness 17 (January 2023). https://doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2023.114.

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Objectives: The Communication (C), Maintaining Health (M), Independence (I), Services, Support and Self-Determination (S), and Transportation (T) is a framework (C-MIST) for identifying functional needs in an emergency response. A C-MIST documentation tool provides shelter staff with a list of potential client needs and actions to address them. This retrospective review describes the needs and actions indicated on completed C-MIST documentation tools (ie, records) within domestic general population shelters following Hurricane Florence in 2018. Methods: A convenience sample of 1209 records completed by shelter disaster health services personnel was provided by the American Red Cross. The records correspond to client stays in 19 shelters between September and October 2018. Data abstracted from hardcopy forms were de-identified and recorded in a database. Summary statistics were computed. Results: High incidence needs included medical supplies for everyday care (including medications) not related to mobility (15.4%), medically or culturally needed diets (12.2%), durable medical equipment (9.7%), mental health care (8.8%), and transportation (8.4%). High incidence actions included replacement medication (9.3%), refer to Disaster Mental Health Services (6.4%), provide assistive mobility equipment (5.1%), provide diabetes management supplies (5.0%), provide alternative food and beverages (4.1%), and provide transportation (3.9%). Conclusions: The process for identifying health and functional support needs in shelters should be standardized through the use of the C-MIST framework.