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A functional exercise is where your emergency response stops being theoretical. Unlike a tabletop, a functional exercise requires your team to actually execute — activating HICS, making real-time resource decisions, coordinating across departments, managing information flow, and operating under the pressure of a realistic scenario without the safety net of stopping to discuss. It tests your command, your coordination, and your communications in a way that discussion-based exercises cannot replicate.
D2EMC designs, facilitates, and documents your functional exercise from concept through After-Action Report and Improvement Plan. The exercise is scoped to the departments and functions you want to test, built around a scenario relevant to your actual hazard environment, and designed to stress the specific operational seams — between departments, between HICS positions, between your facility and your external partners — that are most likely to fail in a real event. CBRN-specific scenarios are available. Everything is HSEEP-compliant. Typical lead time is 90 to 120 days.
Your Discovery Call — Free of Charge Before we begin design, we schedule a free discovery call to understand your facility, the departments and functions you want in scope, the scenario direction, your survey or compliance timeline, and what the exercise needs to demonstrate. Your quote is prepared and shared with you after that call.
What You Walk Away With A fully designed and facilitated functional exercise — including scenario development, Master Scenario Events List, all exercise materials, trained controller and evaluator team, and real-time documentation throughout. After the exercise, you receive a complete HSEEP-compliant After-Action Report and Improvement Plan documenting everything that was tested, strengths and gaps identified at the function and department level, and a specific corrective action plan ready to drive your next improvement cycle. The complete package goes into your survey file as your highest-grade operations-based exercise record.
Best for: Hospitals validating operational capability across departments, facilities preparing for a TJC or CMS survey that requires an operations-based exercise, and programs that have completed tabletop-level work and are ready to stress-test execution.
A functional exercise is where your emergency response stops being theoretical. Unlike a tabletop, a functional exercise requires your team to actually execute — activating HICS, making real-time resource decisions, coordinating across departments, managing information flow, and operating under the pressure of a realistic scenario without the safety net of stopping to discuss. It tests your command, your coordination, and your communications in a way that discussion-based exercises cannot replicate.
D2EMC designs, facilitates, and documents your functional exercise from concept through After-Action Report and Improvement Plan. The exercise is scoped to the departments and functions you want to test, built around a scenario relevant to your actual hazard environment, and designed to stress the specific operational seams — between departments, between HICS positions, between your facility and your external partners — that are most likely to fail in a real event. CBRN-specific scenarios are available. Everything is HSEEP-compliant. Typical lead time is 90 to 120 days.
Your Discovery Call — Free of Charge Before we begin design, we schedule a free discovery call to understand your facility, the departments and functions you want in scope, the scenario direction, your survey or compliance timeline, and what the exercise needs to demonstrate. Your quote is prepared and shared with you after that call.
What You Walk Away With A fully designed and facilitated functional exercise — including scenario development, Master Scenario Events List, all exercise materials, trained controller and evaluator team, and real-time documentation throughout. After the exercise, you receive a complete HSEEP-compliant After-Action Report and Improvement Plan documenting everything that was tested, strengths and gaps identified at the function and department level, and a specific corrective action plan ready to drive your next improvement cycle. The complete package goes into your survey file as your highest-grade operations-based exercise record.
Best for: Hospitals validating operational capability across departments, facilities preparing for a TJC or CMS survey that requires an operations-based exercise, and programs that have completed tabletop-level work and are ready to stress-test execution.