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Managing and Expanding Energy & Excellence

2021 Virtual Disaster Conference

This session encourages attendees to examine elements of purpose, passion, relationships, and vision that contribute to well-being at work and in life. Well-being is paramount to enhancing resiliency and creating performance excellence during adversity.

Managing and Expanding Energy & Excellence

2021 Virtual Disaster Conference

This session encourages attendees to examine elements of purpose, passion, relationships, and vision that contribute to well-being at work and in life. Well-being is paramount to enhancing resiliency and creating performance excellence during adversity.

Recommended Disaster Core Competencies for Hospital Personnel

This core competencies list provides the disaster preparedness and response knowledge, skills and abilities needed by relevant types of hospital personnel given the current state of the art of CBRNE hazards and health care system vulnerabilities. Applying these competencies will assist hospitals in the development, implementation, coordination, and evaluation of disaster preparedness and response training programs.

Health Care Preparedness and Response Capabilities

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) leads the country in preparing for, responding to, and recovering from the adverse health effects of emergencies and disasters. This is accomplished by supporting the nation’s ability to withstand adversity, strengthening health and emergency response systems, and enhancing national health security.

Preparing for the Future of Disaster Health Volunteerism

Participants at the 2017 Disaster Planning Conference discussed potential characteristics of society in the year 2042 and the key resources, tools, and opportunities necessary to support the development of a robust, scalable, and regularly engaged disaster health volunteer workforce prepared for such a future.

Emergency Hemorrhage Control: A Skill for Life

2016 Disaster Conference

This session reviews key concepts, including tourniquet usage, in emergency hemorrhage control. The presentation includes application and usage of hemorrhage control special situations, treatment priorities for trauma patients, and how to improvise and apply different tourniquet techniques.

Supply Chain Management: Creative Solutions, Long-Term Planning

2021 Virtual Disaster Conference

Cottage Health shares strategies that allowed it to be successful in ensuring personal protective equipment for staff across its hospitals, laboratory, and urgent care centers. Presenters also shared ongoing measures still in effect and strategies currently being implemented to prepare for the future.

Chemical Hazards Emergency Medical Management

The Chemical Hazards Emergency Medical Management website offers a comprehensive, user-friendly, web-based resource that is also downloadable in advance, so that it would be available during an event if the internet is not accessible.

CHA Checklist: Hospital Emergency Management Program

There is no standard format for an emergency management program (emergency operations plans are just one component of an overall program). This tool provides guidance for hospitals when developing an emergency management program, including activities related to mitigation, response, and recovery. Download CHA’s Hospital Emergency Management Program Checklist