Move beyond discussion and test operational capability.
Functional exercises can test coordination, communications, procedures and operational response without deploying the full resources of a full-scale exercise.
Discuss a Functional ExerciseTabletop or functional?
A tabletop exercise discusses what people would do. A functional exercise has them do it, in a simulated environment, as events unfold.
- Tabletop: leaders talk through decisions and procedures
- Functional: teams perform their roles against a moving scenario
- Both end with evaluation and an improvement plan
How a functional exercise unfolds
Design
Objectives, scenario and materials built around your provider type, emergency plan and capabilities.
Facilitate
We control the exercise and deliver scenario developments as teams respond.
Evaluate
Evaluators observe performance against the objectives.
Document
An After-Action Report and Improvement Plan record findings and corrective actions.
Scope to the organization
Exercise design should reflect the organization's provider type, emergency plan, capabilities, objectives and applicable requirements.
Specific CMS requirements vary by provider/supplier type and circumstances. Mitigate America scopes each engagement to the client's applicable requirements and does not represent an exercise purchase by itself as establishing compliance.
Plan a functional exercise.
Tell us your provider type and timing.