What’s happening: CHA held its annual Disaster Planning Conference in Pasadena on Sept. 10 and 11. Topics included best practices for communication and collaboration in an emergency, treatment of special pathogens, enhancing health care cybersecurity, and fundamentals of radiation protection.
What else to know: More than 500 people attended the conference, including emergency preparedness directors and coordinators; members of hospital disaster planning teams; compliance, nurse, and case managers; and quality and safety executives.
The conference featured two keynote speakers. Angela Murray, project director, the Joint Commission, provided guidance for the hospital accreditation survey process along with a top 10 list of violations. Closing keynote Rachel Lehman, ASPR TRACIE program director, shared information on new emergency preparedness tools and practices related to cyber threats, utility outages, workforce shortages, and more.
Recordings of keynote speeches and select sessions along with speaker PowerPoint presentations will be available to CHA members next week at: CHA OnDemand Learning.
