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
This presentation demonstrates efforts to mitigate hospital earthquake losses. It provides earthquake tools to assist emergency managers in making quick response decisions, including earthquake early warning to ease earthquake damage and injuries at health care facilities.
2024 Disaster Conference
This presentation prepares newer disaster planners with exercise drill skills. It provides exercise regulatory information from The Joint Commission and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, design strategies, and planning considerations for various types of disaster exercises. Newer exercise design planners will become more disaster resilient while understanding how to effectively evaluate and document an EP exercise to meet their requirements. This session provides best practice information and the tools for post-disaster exercise meetings, forms, documentation, and after-action/process improvement.
2024 Disaster Conference
This session covers how to test your facility’s readiness for a cyber-attack. It discusses how one organization conducted a functional exercise to test response capabilities during a full network outage in an outpatient setting.
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 session offers best practices to help hospitals prepare for the emergency management session included in the hospital accreditation survey process. The presentation also includes tips and actions for survey readiness, based on the most frequently cited emergency management standards.
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.
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.
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.
Presented by UCSF Health, this session reviews best practices and response strategies for events requiring decontamination for first receivers. The presentation includes lessons learned from specific chemical, biological, nuclear, and explosive events. Also included are ways hospitals can review risks and challenges in CBRNE events, and outlines steps hospitals can take to prepare for and respond to these events.