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.
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The Workforce Committee meets periodically throughout the year in Sacramento.
Listed below are the upcoming dates and times, as well as meeting information packets from previous meetings.
2019
March 14, 2019 (Sacramento)
May 9, 2019 (via teleconference)
September 12, 2019 (HR & Workforce Forum, Sacramento)
Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center, along with CalOES, presented this toolkit sharing techniques and resources for integrating Access and Functional Needs (AFNs) into hospital disaster planning.
This presentation helps hospitals identify types of emergency assistance and funding interactions with commercial insurance. It also outlines the elements necessary to secure and spend federal funds for eligible purposes. The session includes details on the roles of each organization under the National Response and Recovery frameworks and the Stafford Act.
This presentation defines Pediatric Black Swan Events, and describe lessons learned in real world disasters and their impact on children and families. The session discusses why California may be particularly at high risk for pediatric black swan events, and identifies key preparedness activities to improve resiliency to these events.
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.
This session outlines readiness strategies hospitals can implement to prepare for infectious disease outbreaks. The presentation reviews how these outbreaks impact hospitals and provides tools and resources to assist hospitals in their preparedness efforts.
This presentation describes alternative electronic strategies developed for managing system outages, demonstrates procedure variations in emergency department and inpatient system outages, and identifies lessons learned from downtime implementation strategies.
This presentation demonstrates how HICS can be simplified to teach command center coordination and improve response capabilities within various health care settings. The session shares details of a training program and how it can be used across various facilities.
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.