This presentation reviews the response to the 2015 Northern California Wildfires, including operational priorities, challenges, successes, and lessons-learned from these events.
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 session provided an overview of the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) system and the NDMS deployment in response to the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season. The presentation gave an overview of the priorities during these events, and now hospital operations were impacted as a result of this severe weather.
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.
This session assists hospitals in evaluating their current response concepts, plans, and capabilities related to a medical surge of patients from an emerging infectious disease outbreak in the local community among community health care partners.
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.
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.
This presentation provides key information to help hospitals navigate the implementation of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services emergency preparedness final rule.
Kaiser Permanente and Sutter Health presenters share how their organizations responded to wildfires that caused their hospitals to evacuate in October 2017. The session details operational impacts as well as recovery efforts taken by both health systems to restore hospital services to the community. Presenters shared lessons learned from these events and highlight opportunities for improved performance.
2016 Disaster Conference
This presentation outlines the similarities and differences in planned vs. emergency/disaster events and analyzes the different consideration for each in the context of disaster planning.