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Home > eICS > Guide - Facilities > Add a Facility


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As a Domain Administrator, you can add a new facility to your domain and, if appropriate, specify the

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business type to which it belongs.

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 Business types determine certain terminology, as well as the relevant type of facility and plans that best suit a facility. Further, when using eICS in conjunction with Juvare Exchange, the type of facility in eICS matches with facility types and subtypes in Juvare Exchange.

As part of this process, you

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want to make one or more Incident Command plans available to the new facility. If you make only one plan available to the facility, by default

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, it becomes its active plan. If you grant access to multiple plans, go to the new facility's Plan Summary to select its active plan.

To add

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  • Search for matching facilities

  • Add a facility if your search did not result in a match, or import a facility from Common Facility

  • Complete the imported facility's details

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a facility

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To search for a facility

You can search by standard search criteria, such as facility Name , Address , and Type . You can also use the map feature, which allows you to draw a shape on a map to indicate the geographic area you want to search.

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If your search yields more than 10 matches, only the first 10 are shown and the system asks you to refine the search.

Tip: If you plan to search by setting an area on the map, do not specify a Zip Code.

  1. Point to Planning and click Facilities. The Facility Administration page opens.

  2. Click Add New Facility. The right pane shows criteria you can use to determine whether this facility already exists.

  3. Enter one or more of the search criteria.

  4. If you want to include an area on a map in your search criteria, click set area on map. The Common Facility Map window opens.

  5. If you are searching using the map feature, click the square or polygon icon and draw the shape on the map.

  6. Click OK. The Common Facility Map window closes. The link to the right of Location now shows as area is set on map.

  7. Click Search. The page shows all facilities in eICS that match your criteria.

Tip: To view details for any facility in your search results, click its name.

To add a facility

Use this procedure if your search yielded no matching facilities or did not locate the correct one.

  1. Click add as new facility. The new facility's General drawer opens. The appropriate fields show the criteria you specified in your search.

  2. For Name, enter the name of the facility.

  3. For Report Name, enter a name for the facility.

  4. For Domain, select the domain to which the facility belongs.

  5. If appropriate, select the Add facility to the Common Facility system check box.

  6. For Address, enter the address information of the facility.

  7. Click locate on map. The Common Facility Map window opens.

  8. Click the down arrow icon to populate the Latitude and Longitude for the address you specified.
    Tip: You can do the reverse as well. In the General tab, enter the latitude and longitude and use the Locate on Map feature to determine the address.

  9. Click OK. The map window closes.

  10. For Type, select the facility type.

  11. Click Save.

To import a facility from Common Facility

Use this procedure when you find a match in Common Facility and want to make the facility available in eICS.

  1. Next to the appropriate matching facility, click import. The imported facility's General drawer opens. The appropriate fields are prefilled from the Common Facility system.

  2. As applicable, add or change the name of the facility.

  3. For Report Name, enter or change the name of the facility.

  4. For Domain, select the domain to which the facility belongs.

  5. For Address, enter the address information of the facility.

  6. Click locate on map. The Common Facility Map window opens.

  7. Click the down arrow icon to populate the Latitude and Longitude for the address you specified.
    Tip: You can do the reverse as well. In the General tab, enter the latitude and longitude and use the Locate on Map feature to determine the address.

  8. Click OK. The map window closes.

  9. In Type, select the facility type.

  10. Click Save.

To complete the imported facility's details

Note: You may not be able to unlock the ICS chart of some plans. Your domain has control over which plans are editable.

  1. Click the Details drawer.

  2. To change the facility's health system, click Change and select a different system.

  3. If appropriate, click Change next to Available Plans. The Available Plans window opens.

  4. Select or clear the Available check box for this facility, indicating whether the plan is available to users.

  5. Select or clear the Locked check box for this facility, indicating whether the plan's ICS chart can be changed by users.

  6. Click OK. The plans window closes.

  7. Select or clear the Share Incident Data with WebEOC check box.

  8. In the Command Center Details section, specify your Command Center's Phone, Fax, and/or Location.

  9. In the Incident Dashboard Tabs section, for each tab:

    • Enter the name of the tab. This is the name that will appear in the dashboard's tab.

    • Enter the URL. You must enter the entire website address, including http:// or https:// as appropriate.

    • Click View to test the website. If the URL is correct, the website opens in a new browser window.

    • If you want to add more custom tab options, click Add Tab, and repeat these steps.

  10. Click Save.

  1. Point to Planning and click Facilities. The Facility Administration page opens.

  2. On the left, below the list of facilities, click Add Facility. The New Facility section opens. 

  3. On the Generaldrawer, enter this information.

    Field

    Description

    Name

    Name of the facility.

    Report Name

    Name of the associated report.

    Domain

    Domain to which the facility belongs.

    Address

    Physical address of the location.

    Location

    Latitude and longitude of the location.

    Business Type

    Type of business with which domain is associated.

    Type

    Type of building with which the facility is identified.

    Incident Sharing

    Allows individual incidents and pieces of incident information associated with this facility to be shared.

    Common Facility ID

    Identification code/identifier that links name and location of a particular facility.

  4. Click Save.

  5. On the Details drawer, enter this information.

    Field

    Description

    Facility Group

    Parent system or group to which this facility belongs.

    Available Plans

    Incident command plans available for this facility.

    Business Type

    Type of business with which domain is associated.

    Notifications

    Ad-hoc notifications is a premium plug-in that allows you to send voice, text, or email notifications at any time regardless of an  incident.

    Region

    Health systems, facility groups, coalitions, and/or domains that form networks and have the ability to coordinate incident response.

    Voice Notifications

    Indicates whether voice notifications are enabled or disabled.  

    Command Center Details

    Phone, Fax, and Location for the facility’s known command center.

    Incident Dashboard Tabs

    Click Add Tab and enter the Name and URL for additional tabs to appear on the incident dashboard.

  1. Note: If a site you are adding is likely to contain

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  1. non-secure or mixed content, an icon appears next to the website name

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  1. the URL field is outlined in the same color as the icon. The system also generates a warning message when you save this information.

      6. Click Save
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