Planning for Mass Gathering Events
2016 Disaster Conference
This presentation outlines the similarities and differences in planned vs. emergency/disaster events and analyzes the different consideration for each in the context of disaster planning.
Hospital Disaster Preparedness
The Evolution of Health Care Business Continuity
2016 Disaster Conference
This presentation outlines the evolving requirements for health care continuity planning, shares lessons learned, and provides resources and planning tools for hospital continuity planning.
Emergency Hemorrhage Control: A Skill for Life
2016 Disaster Conference
This session reviews key concepts, including tourniquet usage, in emergency hemorrhage control. The presentation includes application and usage of hemorrhage control special situations, treatment priorities for trauma patients, and how to improvise and apply different tourniquet techniques.
Leading Practices in Decontamination and Triage
2016 Disaster Conference
Presented by UCSF Health, this session reviews best practices and response strategies for events requiring decontamination for first receivers. The presentation includes lessons learned from specific chemical, biological, nuclear, and explosive events. Also included are ways hospitals can review risks and challenges in CBRNE events, and outlines steps hospitals can take to prepare for and respond to these events.
Making the 2016 Statewide Medical and Health Exercise Work for Your Facility
2016 Disaster Conference
This presentation outlines the purpose and objectives of the 2016 Statewide Medical and Health
Exercise. The session reviews how hospitals can use the exercise to identify areas for improvement, improve understanding of response procedures, and build collaborative relationships.
American Red Cross and Community Response to the 2015 NorCal Wildfires
2016 Disaster Conference
This presentation reviews the response to the 2015 Northern California Wildfires, including operational priorities, challenges, successes, and lessons-learned from these events.
Maintaining Readiness for Emerging Infectious Diseases
2016 Disaster Conference
This session outlines readiness strategies hospitals can implement to prepare for infectious disease outbreaks. The presentation reviews how these outbreaks impact hospitals and provides tools and resources to assist hospitals in their preparedness efforts.
California’s Neonatal, Pediatric and Perinatal Disaster Preparedness in Action
2016 Disaster Conference
This session identifies current local, regional, state and national resources and efforts supporting disaster preparedness for infants and children. The session describe why a statewide CONOPs for infants and children is essential to California’s Med/Health Preparedness, and lists resources for improving local capabilities for infants, children and pregnant women.
Electronic Health Record Downtime and IT Triage: Strategies for Response and Recovery
2016 Disaster Conference
This presentation describes alternative electronic strategies developed for managing system outages, demonstrates procedure variations in emergency department and inpatient system outages, and identifies lessons learned from downtime implementation strategies.
California Department of Public Health Update
2016 Disaster Conference
CDPH presented on the capabilities and overall funding of the current Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP), outlined the 2016-2017 priorities, and shared a look at the future of the HPP program.