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The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) has received funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, allowing for an opportunity to accelerate healthcare-associated infection (HAI) prevention efforts.
This software was created for businesses to create, improve, or update their business continuity plans. The suite is scalable for optimal use by organizations of any size and consists of a business continuity plan (BCP) training, automated BCP and disaster recovery plan generators, and a self-directed exercise for testing an implemented BCP. Businesses can utilize this solution to maintain normal operations and foster resilience during a disruption.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) this week announced a number of improvements to the Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) Program, seeking to reduce providers’ burden by better targeting program integrity efforts.
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CHA is pleased to announce that Leslie D. Hirsch, president and chief executive officer of Saint Clare’s Health System and former president/CEO of Touro Infirmary in New Orleans, will discuss the role of leadership in disaster situations at the upcoming Disaster Planning for California Hospitals Conference in Sacramento. Hirsch will tell the story of how he experienced firsthand Hurricanes Katrina, Irene and Sandy and how he led his hospitals and health system through all phases of response and recovery. Participants will hear about the decisions that led to a full hospital evacuation and gain an understanding of the complexity of business issues during the recovery period.
Military, federal and state agencies have worked with Mortuary Response Solutions (MRS) to employ a mass fatality management and storage solutions for mass fatality events. MRS has designed, engineered and tested the four types of refrigeration systems to support storage of human remains.
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What’s happening: CHA has incorporated its disaster preparedness website, www.calhospitalprepare.org, into the general CHA website, giving members one-stop access to all association info.
What else to know: The new web page retains the critical disaster recovery and response information formerly housed on the previous site, combining that essential content with CHA’s broader resources.
The Kidney Community Emergency Response (KCER) Coalition provides technical assistance to ESRD Networks, Medicare organizations, and other groups to ensure timely and efficient disaster preparedness, response, and recovery for the kidney community.
To maintain daily operations and patient care services, health care facilities need to develop an Emergency Water Supply Plan (EWSP) to prepare for, respond to, and recover from a total or partial interruption of the facilities’ normal water supply.
The Emergency Management Program (EMP) implements the mission, vision, goals and objectives of the organization as related to Emergency Management. The EMP utilizes organized analysis, planning, decision making and assignment of available resources to mitigate, prepare for, respond to, and recover from all-hazards. (Emergency Management Principals and Practices for Healthcare Systems, Department of Veterans Affairs, 2006).
In today’s fast-paced work environments, workloads can feel overwhelming, especially when there is little time to perform tasks. Learn how one Southern California hospital has integrated Microsoft 365 into its Emergency Management (EM) program to streamline workflows, including: Establishing a virtual Hospital Command Center on Microsoft Teams Developing electronic forms for disaster status reports Automating […]
