Staff

Cheri Hummel is the Vice President of Disaster Preparedness at CHA, and is the Executive Director for CHA’s Hospital Preparedness Program.

Prior to joining CHA, she worked at the California Emergency Medical Services Authority Disaster Medical Services Division and the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development. She has a background in healthcare and has worked at acute care hospitals and outpatient clinics.

Ms. Hummel serves on various state and national emergency preparedness committees and workgroups representing the interests of California hospitals. She is influential in establishing policy surrounding hospital emergency preparedness and was instrumental in the launching of the HICS IV Project. Cheri has participated in the development of the Statewide Medical and Health Disaster Exercises and has served in the State Operations Center and the Oakland Regional Operation Center during the Golden Guardian and Statewide Medical & Health Disaster Exercises.

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As the administrative coordinator for the Hospital Preparedness Program, Michele Coughlin performs ongoing technical, analytical and administrative functions for the program.

Michele manages the Hospital Preparedness Program's online presence by providing website content oversight, monitoring and analyzing site traffic and coordinating the program's social media profiles and communications

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As a Hospital Preparedness Coordinator, Lisa works with hospitals on behalf of the California Hospital Association's Hospital Preparedness Program. In addition to her CHA role, Lisa also works as a Staff Nurse IV for Watsonville Community Hospital where she also serves as the Emergency Preparedness Coordinator and Pediatric Liaison Nurse. As an earthquake subject matter expert, Lisa helped to carry her hospital through their response to the Loma Prieta earthquake in October of 1989.

Lisa has a strong background in disaster planning and response and has extensive experience serving her community in a liaison role. She participated on the secondary workgroup for the HICS IV revision project, and has actively participated in the education and course development for HICS across the state of California.

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Bethany Boom is the Hospital Preparedness Program's Education Coordinator.  Bethany works in conjunction with the CHA education department to manage the development and coordination of hospital emergency preparedness education programs, including CHA's annual disaster planning conference. Previously, she was a member of the CHA education department where she managed statewide programs on HICS, Incident Action Planning and NIMS/ICS.

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As a Hospital Preparedness Coordinator, Ryan works with hospitals on behalf of the California Hospital Association's Hospital Preparedness Program.

Ryan was previously with UCLA Medical Center for 11 years as the Disaster Resource Center Director, Emergency Department Clinical Manager, and Pre-hospital Care Coordinator. He was an emergency department nurse for many years as well as a flight nurse with Mercy Air and Life Flight Southern California. 

Mr. Burgess earned his master’s of science in nursing from California State University, Long Beach, (1993) in the Trauma/Emergency Clinical Nurse Specialist program. Ryan lives in Moorpark with his wife and two daughters, where he enjoys coaching youth softball.

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Loni Howard, RN, MSN is the regional Hospital Preparedness Coordinator for the Sacramento Valley region of the California Hospital Association’s Hospital Preparedness Program.

Ms. Howard has worked as a hospital Emergency Preparedness Coordinatorin the Sacramento area for more that 10 years. She was a member of the HEICS IV Workgroup, and is currently a member of the HICS Center for Education and Training Advisory Board. Loni also raises puppies for Guide Dogs for the Blind.

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Mary Massey, B.S.N, MA, PHN is the  regional Hospital Preparedness Coordinator for the Southern Inland region.

Ms. Massey has over twenty years experience in clinical and administrative management of hospital emergency medical services. Ms. Massey participates in multi-agency taskforces, including MMRS, UASI, and development of the Hospital Incident Command System as a member of the HEICS IV National Workgroup. She authored comprehensive bioterrorism policies addressing the medical response to weapons of mass destruction, including mass decontamination, mass prophylaxis for first responders, and pandemic response for hospitals.

Mary has deployed with DMAT CA-1 to multiple wildfire responses and hurricanes, including Hurricane Katrina. She has worked on projects with the CDC in Atlanta, a Controller and Evaluator for numerous ODP and G&T Full Scale Chemical Weapons Exercises across the country, and as a panel member on the AHRQ satellite broadcast on Bioterrorism Preparedness.

Ms. Massey has trained with the Department of Defense for weapons of mass destruction and the Department of Justice for domestic preparedness, including live-agent COBRA training and technical level Incident Response to Terrorist Bombings. She is recognized as a Department of Justice WMD General Instructor. She is a graduate from the Naval Postgraduate School where she graduated with her Master’s in Homeland Security and Defense.

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Jan Spencley is the regional Hospital Preparedness Contractor for the California Hospital Association’s Hospital Preparedness Program. Jan serves San Diego and Imperial counties.

Jan is a healthcare consultant with over 30 years in the healthcare industry. For 25 years, Jan worked for UCSD Healthcare in a number of capacities as a member of the Executive Management Team. During her tenure with UCSD, she was actively involved in the development of the local trauma system and the UCSD trauma center and was responsible for business development departments as well as government relations.

For the past 10 years Jan has been a consultant working with hospitals and health systems, medical groups, community health centers, health plans and local government. Her consulting engagements have included strategic and operational planning, performance improvement and disaster planning.

In recent years, she has also served as the local consultant to, and now director of, the San Diego Healthcare Connection – a coalition of business, consumer, labor, health care provider, health plan and local government representatives pursuing options to increase access to healthcare by expanding healthcare coverage in the region.

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