2024 Disaster Conference
This session highlights recent resources and tools ASPR TRACIE developed in coordination with its subject matter expert, Cadre, in response to current hot topics in health care preparedness such as: cyber threats, hospital and regional patient surge management, pediatric resources, workforce shortages, utility outages, behavioral health and workforce resilience, and health care coalition engagement.
2024 Disaster Conference
This presentation delves into the critical issue of hospital surge and explores the various factors contributing increased patient volume, resource scarcity, and workforce shortages. Also discussed are the potential impacts of hospital surge on patient care quality, health care worker morale, and overall hospital operations.
2024 Disaster Conference
This presentation will demonstrate the importance of a multi-sector and community-based approach to Emergency Preparedness. It will include key steps to take to succeed at collaboration and highlight its importance by tying it to real world events. Attendees will learn simple steps that can be easily applied to help build collaborative efforts in the community.
2024 Disaster Conference
When disaster strikes, help can come from unlikely sources. Active participation in a health care coalition provides hospitals the opportunity to grow and cultivate relationships before disaster strikes. This presentation will present four different examples of how strong, preexisting relationships proved crucial during emergencies, benefiting both the hospital and the community at large.
2024 Disaster Conference
This presentation explores the importance of trust in creating and maintaining connected, collaborative relationships and high performing teams. Learn about trust inventory and its importance in building or repairing trust, understand the difference between trust and psychological safety, and how they influence each other, and how to apply the trust framework to a working relationship to identify specific issues and develop the best approach for rebuilding trust with that person.
2024 Disaster Conference
Discover practical strategies for leveraging resources, technology, and emergency management expertise to streamline the AAR writing process. From exercises to real-life incidents, learn how to transform insights gathered into actionable recommendations that enhance organizational resilience.
2024 Disaster Conference
This presentation covers best practices for integrating information security and emergency management professionals in planning and resiliency efforts against cyber threats posed against partners in the health care sector.
2024 Disaster Conference
This presentation aims to educate a diverse audience of hospital workers and professionals from various sectors on the principles of radiation safety. It covers historical developments, current regulatory standards, and best practices for minimizing occupational radiation exposure. The session will detail types of radiation, measurement units, and protective equipment, emphasizing the ALARA principle and current epidemiological findings. Additionally, the presentation will discuss OSHA standards, health effects from radiation exposures, scatter radiation related to pregnancy, and radiation in the military, airline, and manufacturing industries.
2024 Disaster Conference
This presentation prepares newer disaster planners with exercise drill skills. It provides exercise regulatory information from The Joint Commission and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, design strategies, and planning considerations for various types of disaster exercises. Newer exercise design planners will become more disaster resilient while understanding how to effectively evaluate and document an EP exercise to meet their requirements. This session provides best practice information and the tools for post-disaster exercise meetings, forms, documentation, and after-action/process improvement.
2024 Disaster Conference
This session covers how to test your facility’s readiness for a cyber-attack. It discusses how one organization conducted a functional exercise to test response capabilities during a full network outage in an outpatient setting.