Incorporating New Technology to Your Emergency Management
2016 Disaster Conference
This presentation describes how hospitals can empower their teams through technology by incorporating unique training tools into their emergency management program.
Hospital Disaster Preparedness
Personal Preparedness: Being Red Cross Ready
2016 Disaster Conference
This presentation provides an overview of how the Red Cross can assist with personal preparedness, and provides a review of the various ways personal preparedness contributes to community disaster readiness strategies.
Measuring Preparedness and Resiliency
2016 Disaster Conference
Sutter Health presented ways hospitals can objectively (and simply) communicate readiness to senior leadership by establishing benchmarks and prioritizing planning activities.
Customizing HICS for Everyone
2016 Disaster Conference
This presentation demonstrates how HICS can be simplified to teach command center coordination and improve response capabilities within various health care settings. The session shares details of a training program and how it can be used across various facilities.
Disaster Recovery Funding Essentials
2016 Disaster Conference
This presentation helps hospitals identify types of emergency assistance and funding interactions with commercial insurance. It also outlines the elements necessary to secure and spend federal funds for eligible purposes. The session includes details on the roles of each organization under the National Response and Recovery frameworks and the Stafford Act.
What’s Your Plan B? Emergency Management Principles in Managing Staff Shortages
2016 Disaster Conference
Presented by UCSF Medical Center, this session outlines the contingency planning process for staff shortages, reviews planning assumptions, demonstrates the use of emergency management concepts, and shares lessons learned through contingency planning for labor actions.
Developing Crisis Communication Frameworks for Strategic Response
2016 Disaster Conference
Presented by UCSF Medical Center, this session provides an overview of their notification system selection and implementation, provides details on backup strategies hospitals can use when primary notification methods fail, and shares lessons learned from recent events and exercises.
Hospital and Community Response to the San Bernardino Terrorist Attack
2016 Disaster Conference
This session discusses the hospital’s mitigation and preparedness strategies that contributed to the effectiveness of their response to the San Bernardino terrorist attack. The presentation also described how the recovery process continues beyond the event, and shares lessons learned from the hospital perspective.
Improving Health Care Delivery in Disasters
2016 Disaster Conference
This resource provides an overview of how hospitals can prepare for a wide range of incidents that disrupt the flow of operations and reviews ways hospitals can be better prepared to sustain the impact of a storm, flood, or other natural disaster.
New Ideas to Improve Health Care Delivery in Disasters
2016 Disaster Conference
This session offers new strategies for hospitals as they prepare to deliver health care in disasters, along with an overview of challenges faced and new solutions to help hospitals respond.