> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.officeridge.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Emergency Preparedness

> Drill scheduling, scenario management, risk assessments, and compliance documentation.

Emergency Preparedness covers drill scheduling, scenario management, risk assessments, and compliance
documentation.

For a Texas home care agency this is not a paper exercise. Hurricanes, flooding, and extended power
loss all affect members who depend on your staff reaching them.

## Who can use it

Organization Admins, Location Admins, Clinical Managers, and Compliance Officers.

## What lives here

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Drills" icon="siren" href="/emergency/drills">
    Drill calendar, drill records, coordination team, and participants.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Plans" icon="file-text" href="/emergency/plans">
    Emergency plans, procedures, recovery plans, and continuity reviews.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Readiness" icon="activity" href="/emergency/readiness">
    Compliance calendar, IT systems, and weather monitoring.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## The preparedness cycle

```mermaid theme={null}
graph LR
    A[Emergency plan] --> B[Scheduled drill]
    B --> C[Drill conducted]
    C --> D[Critiques collected]
    D --> E[Follow-up actions]
    E --> A
```

The cycle only works if it closes. A drill run without critiques, or critiques without follow-up,
leaves the plan unchanged. See [Emergency drill cycle](/guides/emergency-drill-cycle).

## Backup coverage

If your agency cannot deliver care, a contingency agreement with a backup agency covers your members.
Those agreements live in [Continuity](/operations/continuity).

<Warning>
  Check contingency agreement expiry dates as part of every preparedness review. An expired agreement
  means you have no cover at exactly the moment you need it.
</Warning>

## Troubleshooting

| Problem                                           | What to check                                                                                      |
| ------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Emergency Prep is missing from my sidebar         | It is limited to Organization Admins, Location Admins, Clinical Managers, and Compliance Officers. |
| Emergency plans appear here and under Resources   | Same records, surfaced in both places.                                                             |
| Drill critiques appear here and under Fraud & Ops | Same records again.                                                                                |
| A plan shows no drill history                     | Drills recorded on the **Drills** tab update the plan's **Last Drill** date.                       |