Add a Facility

As a Domain Administrator, you can add a new facility to your domain and, if appropriate, specify the business type to which it belongs. 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 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, 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 a facility

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 General drawer, enter this information.

   New Facility: General fields and descriptions

   Field	Description
   Name	Name of the facility. Up to 100 characters.
   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.

   New Facility: Details fields and descriptions

   Field	Description
   Health System or Facility Group	Parent system or group to which this facility belongs.
   Available Plans	Incident command plans available for this facility.
   Voice Notifications	Indicates whether voice notifications are enabled or disabled; and if selected by default.
   Command Center Details	Phone, Fax, and Location for the facility’s known command center.
   Incident Dashboard Tabs	Name and URL for additional tabs to appear on the incident dashboard.

6. Click Save.