Disaster Communications: An Overview
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.
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.
What’s happening: The Institute for Medical Leadership is hosting its Chief of Staff Boot Camp 2025 — geared toward medical staff leaders, chief medical offers, hospital executives, and medical staff managers — Feb. 28 to March 2 in Los Angeles. Tuition begins at $2,195, and registration is open.
What else to know: The Chief of Staff Boot Camp aims to provide new chiefs of staff the information they need to succeed in their complex role by sharing the knowledge and tools necessary to work collaboratively with peers, hospital administration, and staff members.
We currently have a great opportunity for a professional with 1+ years’ experience in corporate communications or digital advocacy communications activities. This position will maintain and help develop web content for multiple sites within the California Hospital Association family, ensuring that content is relevant, fresh, engaging, navigable, intuitive, and well-organized. In addition, this position is responsible for producing multiple mass-marketing and communications emails and newsletters using marketing template and customer relationship management database applications.
In this new feature, CHA will share communications highlights — from social media and earned media to new messaging and education resources. Following are items of note for July:
CHA communications highlights for September include:
CHA communications highlights for October include:
Recent CHA communications highlights include:
CHA communications highlights for August include:
This Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication Toolkit is designed to support writing and implementing a crisis communication plan that clearly defines hospitals’ goals, objectives and actions in response to a disaster. The toolkit also provides specific guidelines and instructions for communicating during emergencies. Download the Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication Toolkit
Redundant communication refers to having multiple back-up communication modalities and is imperative in emergency preparedness planning. Past experience demonstrates that hospitals cannot depend on just one or two means for communication.