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.
2023 Disaster Conference – Best Practice Showcase
Developed by Redlands Community Hospital, this resource details symptoms of burnout and demonstrates the impacts it can have on decision-making and care quality. Addressing burnout helps improve job satisfaction, reduce turnover, and prevent compassion fatigue, fostering a supportive work culture. By prioritizing employee well-being, hospitals not only enhance patient outcomes and organizational efficiency but also create a healthier, more sustainable workforce, ultimately benefiting both healthcare providers and the people they serve.
This session introduces a holistic approach to reducing harm in health care by promoting organization-wide culture changes and trust, resulting in improved partnerships with patients, patients’ families and caregivers.
Planning for health care surges during disasters is crucial for hospitals to ensure they can effectively respond to sudden increases in patient volume. Disasters can overwhelm medical facilities–having surge plans in place allow hospitals to optimize resource allocation, manage staff and equipment efficiently, and maintain continuity of care for both surge and non-surge patients.
2024 Disaster Conference
This session highlights recent resources and tools ASPR TRACIE developed in coordination with its subject matter expert, Cadre, in response to current hot topics in health care preparedness such as: cyber threats, hospital and regional patient surge management, pediatric resources, workforce shortages, utility outages, behavioral health and workforce resilience, and health care coalition engagement.
2024 Disaster Conference
When disaster strikes, help can come from unlikely sources. Active participation in a health care coalition provides hospitals the opportunity to grow and cultivate relationships before disaster strikes. This presentation will present four different examples of how strong, preexisting relationships proved crucial during emergencies, benefiting both the hospital and the community at large.
2016 Disaster Conference
This presentation outlines the evolving requirements for health care continuity planning, shares lessons learned, and provides resources and planning tools for hospital continuity planning.
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.
Hospitals play a crucial role in community resilience, particularly in the face of increasing incidents of extreme weather due to climate change.