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Measuring Preparedness and Resiliency

2016 Disaster Conference

Sutter Health presented ways hospitals can objectively (and simply) communicate readiness to senior leadership by establishing benchmarks and prioritizing planning activities.

Hospital-Based Surge Management

2020 Virtual Disaster Conference

This presentation offers strategies hospital can use in taking a simplified approach to planning, engagement, and communications as they plan to manage patient surges.

DHCS Issues Monthly Stakeholder Update

The Department of Health Care Services has released its monthly Stakeholder Communication Update. Among other topics, the October edition includes information on the California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM) initiative, Drug Medi-Cal Organized Delivery System services, trauma screenings reimbursement, and expansion of Medi-Cal to adult individuals ages 19-25, regardless of immigration status.

Addressing Patients’ Emergency Department Concerns During COVID-19

CHA and the Regional Associations have developed a toolkit to assist member hospitals and health systems in responding to patients' concerns about seeking care in emergency departments during the COVID-19 pandemic. The toolkit supports hospitals' communications with the public via social media, including graphics to help amplify the message that hospital emergency departments are safe and prepared to handle emergencies, as well as COVID-19 response. 

CDPH Releases Let’s Get to Immunity Campaign Toolkit

The California Department of Public Health has launched a Let’s Get to Immunity campaign. The campaign features a toolkit designed to help communicate about ongoing COVID-19 vaccine efforts in California with ready-to-use digital resources that can be shared in the community and on social media.

What activities are required to evaluate a facility’s response to an event e.g., debriefings, evaluation and improvement plans?

The Joint Commission in EM.03.01.03 requires the deficiencies and opportunities for improvement, identified in the evaluation of all emergency response exercises be communicated to the improvement team responsible for monitoring environment of care issues. NFPA 1600 requires that procedures shall be established to take corrective action on any deficiency identified.

Tenet Health Brings TeleER to the Central Coast

This post has been archived and contains information that may be out of date.

Hospitals went above and beyond to care for those in need during the global COVID-19 pandemic — even reaching outside their four walls. At Tenet Health Central Coast, an innovative new TeleER program meant patients were tended to without setting foot in the hospital.