3440.10 with Changes - Navy Medicine - U.S. Navy

BUMEDINST 3440.10
20 Nov 2008
SECTION 2
NATIONAL INCIDENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (NIMS) COMPLIANCE
Ref: (a) Homeland Security Presidential Directive/HSPD-5
(b) National Incident Management System (NIMS)
(c) National Response Plan
(d) Implementation of the National Response Plan and the National Incident
Management System, DEPSECDEF memo of 29 Nov 2005
1. Purpose. To provide guidance to MTF commanders on issues of compliance with the NIMS
to ensure efficient and effective use of NIMS in its emergency management planning,
preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation activities.
2. Background
a. Reference (a) of this section requires all Federal Departments and Agencies to adopt
NIMS for domestic incident management. References (b) and (c) of this section establish an alldiscipline,
all-hazards approach to the management of domestic incidents. Reference (d) of this
section provides direction on DoD implementation of NIMS and the NRP. Paragraph 5 of this
section provides NIMS guidance and implementation activities for hospitals and health care
systems. Paragraph 6 of this section provides specific minimum training guidance for Navy
Medicine personnel.
b. Navy Medicine provides support to civil authorities for domestic incidents as directed by
the President or Secretary of Defense, consistent with military readiness and when appropriate
under the circumstances and the law. Navy Medicine will also receive support from civil
authorities in response to domestic incidents, which can be essential to sustaining or restoring
Navy Medicine capabilities that are critical to operations and the execution of the National
Military Strategy. Any such mutually beneficial, cooperative relationship is most effective when
based upon a shared understanding with a common language and structure for coordination.
NIMS and NRP were issued by the U.S. DHS to provide that comprehensive and consistent
national framework to all-hazard incident management at all jurisdictional levels and across
functional disciplines.
c. The NIMS Integration Center (NIC), in collaboration with the HHS, developed the NIMS
implementation activities for hospitals and health care systems to assist them with NIMS
implementation and integration, further enhancing their efficiency and effectiveness in response
and recovery. This guidance provides direction that will advance individual hospital and health
care emergency management and preparedness.
3. Responsibility. BUMED-M3/5 has established minimum training requirements for
designated Navy Medicine personnel with a reasonable likelihood of involvement in incident
management/response; all designated Navy Medicine personnel shall meet the requirements of
paragraph 6 of this section. Personnel currently serving in the positions identified in paragraph 6
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