Hospital Disaster Preparedness

SNF Evacuation: Exercising and Responding as a Health Care Coalition

2024 Disaster Conference

This session presents lessons learned from the Golden Hills Post Acute Care evacuation of 88 SNF residents and 22 sub-acute patients due to severe storm damage to their building. The session reviews how the facility coordinated with local SNFs, prioritized load leveling, and supported facilities receiving patients with Multi-Drug Resistant Organisms (MDRO’s). Learn how Sharp HealthCare’s Coronado campus, having practiced full facility evacuations, effectively received evacuees, demonstrating exceptional compassion and resourcefulness.

Hazard Vulnerability Assessments in Climate Change Preparedness

2024 Disaster Conference

This presentation reviews Hazard Vulnerability Assessment (HVA) categories associated with climate change and proposes ways hospitals can plan for the risks associated with climate change. The session explores current and anticipated interdependencies between multiple hazard categories in California, as well as the typical timeline of HVA methodology.

Pediatric Patient Surge Preparedness

2024 Disaster Conference

This presentation outlines approaches for pediatric patient surges: what to prepare for, important roles and responsibilities, and share resources and best practices. The session reviews pediatric surge planing and reviews steps to developing an plan for mass casualty incidents.

Hospital Evacuations: What Happens When the Lights Go Out?

2024 Disaster Conference

This presentation focuses on the dynamics of emergency preparedness under adverse conditions, where collaboration and communication faced unique challenges within an unfamiliar setting. Gain insights into the complexities of managing power outages while ensuring the safety and well-being of all those involved and obtain lessons learned for enhancing emergency preparedness response strategies.

Helping the Helpers During Times of Crisis

2024 Disaster Conference

This presentation shares experiences leading successful teams and averting crisis, and explores techniques that can be used to help even the most novice leader rise to meet the challenge in front of them and bring their teams along with them.

Resources for Quick Earthquake Response Decisions

2024 Disaster Conference

This presentation demonstrates efforts to mitigate hospital earthquake losses. It provides earthquake tools to assist emergency managers in making quick response decisions, including earthquake early warning to ease earthquake damage and injuries at health care facilities.

Design, Execute, and Evaluate a Hospital Disaster Drill

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.

Test Your Hospital’s Cyber Readiness

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. 

Building Business Continuity for Health Care’s Future

2024 Disaster Conference

Presented by Mass General Brigham’s Department of Emergency Preparedness and Continuity (DEPC), this session outlines development of a health care-centric sustainable and effective continuity program. DEPC developed tools and adapted traditional practices to focus on capability building and maintaining mission essential functions.