2024 Disaster Conference
This presentation outlines approaches for pediatric patient surges: what to prepare for, important roles and responsibilities, and share resources and best practices. The session reviews pediatric surge planing and reviews steps to developing an plan for mass casualty incidents.
2024 Disaster Conference
This presentation shares experiences leading successful teams and averting crisis, and explores techniques that can be used to help even the most novice leader rise to meet the challenge in front of them and bring their teams along with them.
2024 Disaster Conference
Presented by Mass General Brigham’s Department of Emergency Preparedness and Continuity (DEPC), this session outlines development of a health care-centric sustainable and effective continuity program. DEPC developed tools and adapted traditional practices to focus on capability building and maintaining mission essential functions.
2024 Disaster Conference
This presentation reviews Hazard Vulnerability Assessment (HVA) categories associated with climate change and proposes ways hospitals can plan for the risks associated with climate change. The session explores current and anticipated interdependencies between multiple hazard categories in California, as well as the typical timeline of HVA methodology.
2024 Disaster Conference
This presentation focuses on the dynamics of emergency preparedness under adverse conditions, where collaboration and communication faced unique challenges within an unfamiliar setting. Gain insights into the complexities of managing power outages while ensuring the safety and well-being of all those involved and obtain lessons learned for enhancing emergency preparedness response strategies.
2024 Disaster Conference
This presentation reviews ways to integrate any HICS document directly into Microsoft Teams and instantly share it with your entire organization. Learn ways to take advantage of the Microsoft Teams platform to facilitate the exchange of data as a turnkey command center solution.
2024 Disaster Conference
This session presents lessons learned from the Golden Hills Post Acute Care evacuation of 88 SNF residents and 22 sub-acute patients due to severe storm damage to their building. The session reviews how the facility coordinated with local SNFs, prioritized load leveling, and supported facilities receiving patients with Multi-Drug Resistant Organisms (MDRO’s). Learn how Sharp HealthCare’s Coronado campus, having practiced full facility evacuations, effectively received evacuees, demonstrating exceptional compassion and resourcefulness.
The Ready or Not? report by the Trust for America’s Health offers an independent evaluation of the U.S.’s public health readiness, highlighting progress and areas needing improvement. It reviews state preparedness levels, the federal government’s role, and suggests enhancements for emergency response capabilities. The report promotes accountability in the use of taxpayer funds for health emergency readiness and recommends transitioning to a strategic, capability-focused system for effective response to health crises, including disease, disasters, and bio-terrorism threats. It also emphasizes the need for transparency to allow policymakers to accurately gauge the nation’s preparedness.
Maintaining open communication during a disaster is crucial to effective response. Learn more about primary communications channels and how to ensure hospitals have what they need to coordinate response.
A comprehensive guide outlining the process and requirements for hospitals seeking reimbursement from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) through the Alternative Care Site (ACS) program.