Presented by UCSF Medical Center, this session outlines the contingency planning process for staff shortages, reviews planning assumptions, demonstrates the use of emergency management concepts, and shares lessons learned through contingency planning for labor actions.
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.
This session discusses the hospital’s mitigation and preparedness strategies that contributed to the effectiveness of their response to the San Bernardino terrorist attack. The presentation also described how the recovery process continues beyond the event, and shares lessons learned from the hospital perspective.
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.
This session offers new strategies for hospitals as they prepare to deliver health care in disasters, along with an overview of challenges faced and new solutions to help hospitals respond.
This presentation discusses strategies hospitals can use to build a resilient workforce. The session focuses on key considerations for hospitals with emphasis on factors that affect resilience, such as availability of senior management, acclimation, employee acknowledgement, and staff appreciation.
This presentation provided an overview of Cal/OSHA’s proposed Workplace Violence Prevention Program (WPVP) Regulations, discussed key provisions of the regulations, and gave an overview of logistical challenges and considerations for hospitals.
This session reviews how hospitals can boost resilience by incorporating law enforcement into their plans, policies and procedures. The presentation identified ways hospitals can involve law enforcement into their drills, training, and community outreach, how to incorporate law enforcement into their safety/security threat assessments, and their and Workplace Violence Prevention Program (WPVPP).
This presentation describes the paradigm shift that governs law enforcement’s approach to ‘active shooter’ events. The session provided an overview of the continuum of care that extends from field management to hospital care, and the steps hospitals can take to ensure trauma/burn surge capabilities.
Presented by Orlando Health, this session provided an overview and timeline for hospitals’ response to the 2016 Pulse Nightclub shooting. The presentation discussed the lessons learned from this event, and discussed how disaster drills, collaboration, and resource optimization were key to an effective event response.