This presentation discusses how the public information officer (PIO) is a vital part of the incident command team, charged with delivering accurate information to the right people at the right time. This session reviews the role of the PIO and presents strategies for utilizing social media for emergency communications.
This session discusses the hospital’s mitigation and preparedness strategies that contributed to the effectiveness of their response to the San Bernardino terrorist attack. The presentation also described how the recovery process continues beyond the event, and shares lessons learned from the hospital perspective.
Hospitals and health care facilities operating dialysis or opioid treatment programs can learn about emergency preparedness to assist before, during, and after a critical event.
2023 Disaster Conference
Learn about PG&E’s overall Incident Command Structure (ICS) during event activations, the power outage restoration process, and real-life examples of emergency events that impacted hospitals. session included an overview of the process to coordinate response safely and efficiently to an emergency event affecting gas or electrical system from planning, activation, assessment, restoration, and deactivation.
CHA’s Hospital Preparedness Program developed this checklist for hospital CEOs. It serves as a reference to ensure appropriate planning is occurring within hospital and health care organizations.
The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged health care delivery systems world-wide by straining scarce resources, such as critical care therapeutics, hospital beds and clinical staff, necessitating drastic public health measures.
Provided courtesy of Victor Valley Global Medical Center, this document outlines an emergency response plan to alert hospital staff that an active shooter appears to be actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in the hospital or on the campus.
National Academy of Medicine Discussion Paper Terrorist attacks have a profound emotional and physical effect on a community. While preventing these attacks would be preferred, agencies must work swiftly and cohesively to improve patient outcome when an attack does occur. Read full discussion paper.
Active shooter events in a health care setting present unique challenges: a potentially large vulnerable patient population, hazardous materials (including infectious disease), locked units, special challenges (such as weapons and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machines (these machines contain large magnets which can cause issues with firearms, or remove it from the hands of law enforcement), as well as caregivers who can respond to treat victims.