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Wildfires. Mudslides. Floods. Mass shootings. These once rare or infrequent events have become regular occurrences, and no two disasters are ever the same. Now more than ever, hospitals must reevaluate our procedures and redefine preparation.
2020 Virtual Disaster Conference
Learn about the challenges faced by New York City hospitals in managing the unprecedented surge in fatalities. This session outlines how the the city’s mass fatality management plans were quickly overwhelmed, and reviews how hospital quickly adapted to increase mortuary space, redeploy staff, and work closely with the Office of Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) to manage body collection points and long-term storage. The session also outlined the various logistical challenges faced by hospitals and emphasized the need for improved coordination, enhanced hospital preparedness, and updates to fatality management plans for future emergencies.
2020 Virtual Disaster Conference
Experts from a community hospital and a stand-alone acute care facility share stories and describe how the continuity of decedent management is challenged when existing resources are beyond capacity.
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Join colleagues at CHA’s Disaster Planning Conference — a virtual event on Sept. 14-15 — to share lessons from 2020 and apply them to the challenges of 2021 and beyond.
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What’s happening: CHA has partnered with the Hospital Association of Southern California to host the 2025 HR Conference in Long Beach, taking place on Feb. 19 from noon to 5 p.m. and Feb. 20 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
What else to know: The conference will cover topics relevant to human resource (HR) professionals, including recruitment and retention strategies, reasonable accommodation best practices, wage and hour compliance, and workplace investigations. Registration is open for CHA members.
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The California Hospital Volunteer Leadership Network is hosting a virtual conference Feb. 16-17, 2021. The annual California Hospital Volunteer Leadership Conference will offer general and concurrent sessions, as well as pre-recorded sessions with live Q&A. More details will be available in the coming weeks as the conference committee diligently continues planning the event. Volunteers and paid staff who manage volunteer programs are encouraged to participate.
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The 2022 Disaster Planning Conference, set for Sept. 13-14 at the Pasadena Convention Center, is offering something new this year.
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Recognizing the importance of learning from recent disasters and from one another, more than 700 hospital and disaster response officials from across California gathered in Pasadena this week at CHA’s annual Disaster Planning for California Hospitals conference.
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The deadline to receive discount registration and hotel rates at this year’s Disaster Planning for California Hospitals Conference – to be held Sept. 10-11 in Pasadena – is Aug. 19. After that, registration will increase by $100, and the conference rate for hotel rooms expires.