2024 Disaster Conference
This session highlights recent resources and tools ASPR TRACIE developed in coordination with its subject matter expert, Cadre, in response to current hot topics in health care preparedness such as: cyber threats, hospital and regional patient surge management, pediatric resources, workforce shortages, utility outages, behavioral health and workforce resilience, and health care coalition engagement.
2024 Disaster Conference
When disaster strikes, help can come from unlikely sources. Active participation in a health care coalition provides hospitals the opportunity to grow and cultivate relationships before disaster strikes. This presentation will present four different examples of how strong, preexisting relationships proved crucial during emergencies, benefiting both the hospital and the community at large.
2016 Disaster Conference
This presentation outlines the evolving requirements for health care continuity planning, shares lessons learned, and provides resources and planning tools for hospital continuity planning.
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.
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Thanks to hospitals, miracles happen every day in California.
The stories are countless.
Surprise Valley Health Care District is a District Authority-owned hospital located in Cedarville, CA. The hospital has 26 beds and provides the following services onsite to residents: Administration and storage of blood Clinical laboratory Dental Dietary Housekeeping Mental health Nursing Occupational therapy Pharmacy Physical therapy Physician services Podiatry services Social work Speech/language pathology Vocational services […]
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In the Central Valley town of Mendota, almost half of the population lives below the poverty line and, until recently, had limited access to health care. Seeing their need, Madera Community Hospital stepped in to build a medical clinic, and now families there — many of them farmworkers — no longer have to arrange for transportation to travel a long distance or take hours away from their work just to get the care they need.
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Through the global COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals went above and beyond to care for those in need — including their own. At Keck Medicine of USC, caring for caregivers and their families became a bigger focus than ever.
Overview
The CHA case manager committee identified a need — case managers needed additional training opportunities as well as ongoing support. And case management leaders needed training tools that were accessible, cost-effective, and which could be customized to meet the unique needs of each individual and hospital.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has established a national emergency care contact center to simplify the emergency care notification process. The Community Care Centralized Notification Center is the mechanism by which community providers must now notify the VA of a veteran presenting at an emergency facility.