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.
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.
This presentation reviews the response to the 2015 Northern California Wildfires, including operational priorities, challenges, successes, and lessons-learned from these events.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sutter Health presents on the impact and their response to the 2015 Butte and Valley Wildfires, with a review of lessons-learned from these events.
This presentation discusses how the public information officer (PIO) is a vital part of the incident command team, charged with delivering accurate information to the right people at the right time. This session reviews the role of the PIO and presents strategies for utilizing social media for emergency communications.
Presented by UCSF Medical Center, this session describes the process of developing a guideline for pediatric patients designated as imminently dying, or “expectant,” in a disaster.