About Emergency Preparedness
It’s time to change the way California thinks about disaster response. The COVID-19 pandemic showed that hospitals can quickly mobilize to provide flexible approaches to patient care during a disaster. The state must draw upon these lessons to prepare differently so the next crisis will be less severe. Given California’s size and complexity, the health care disaster response system of the future must be nimble enough to respond to any catastrophe. View more information on hospital disaster preparedness.
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.
When Disaster Strikes: 2015 Butte and Valley Wildfires
2016 Disaster Conference
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.
Ensuring Accurate Public Information in Emergency Management and Response
2016 Disaster Conference
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.
Palliative Care for Imminently Dying Pediatric Patients During a Disaster
2016 Disaster Conference
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.
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.