Learn how Huntington Hospital, along with law enforcement and
fire department partners, quickly and effectively planned not
one, but four active shooter training exercises within our
facility in just 4 months. Our education department filmed the
sessions and interviewed staff to create a training video for
those unable to attend, which will be shown during the
presentation. We will share lessons learned and highlight how
hospital leadership and our planning team worked together to
ensure this training was successful for our employees while
minimizing impact on hospital operations.
Presenters:
Jennifer Waldron, MBA-HCM, BSN, RN,
Disaster Program Manager, Huntington Hospital
Darren Morgan,
Director-Security/Disaster Services, Huntington Hospital
Oct 4, 2023 | Disaster Planning for
California Hospitals
Overview:
Executive support for disaster exercises can sometimes be
difficult due to competing priorities and lack of available
financial resources. In this presentation, participants will
learn how to lead cost efficient disaster exercises and incident
responses within thematic approaches within the following
scenarios: mass decontamination, active shooter, bomb threat and
labor action scenarios, and will receive ready-made templates for
exercise development.
Oct 4, 2023 | Disaster Planning for
California Hospitals
Overview:
Rural communities face many challenges and resource limitations.
When an emergency situation arises, it is not the time to
scramble to find the lacking resources. Ideally resource needs
have been identified and MOUs are put in place, ready to access
if needed. Rural hospitals are a hub of the community and can
lead the way in emergency preparedness collaboration and
organization by establishing relationships, contacts and MOUs
with business, schools, and community organizations.
Oct 4, 2023 | Disaster Planning for
California Hospitals
Overview:
Cyberattacks against the health sector are proliferating, causing
loss of data, connectivity, operations, reputation, money, and
ultimately, patient safety. Attendees will learn about the Health
Sector Coordinating Council and the many free best practice and
guidance publications the Council has created for scalable
cybersecurity preparedness and response programs. Attendees will
learn some best practices offered by leading health care
enterprises for responding to incidents as they happen, and
recovering from disruptions and maintaining business continuity.
Additionally, attendees will be briefed on the importance of
collective situational awareness and mutual support in
cybersecurity, and how they can get involved in this national
health care cybersecurity effort.
Oct 4, 2023 | Disaster Planning for
California Hospitals
Overview:
Overcrowding makes Mass Casualty Incident (MCI) planning
increasingly difficult for Emergency Departments. MCI plans must
incorporate tactics for rapidly and safely clearing space in EDs
to accommodate the influx of casualties. The goal of this
planning is to provide the greatest good for the greatest number
of patients, both at the hospital before the disaster and for new
casualties being received. Stanford experts will review how this
planning is designed and how it has been refined with years of
practice at their facility.
Oct 4, 2023 | Disaster Planning for
California Hospitals
Overview:
A review of strategies for managing the pediatric winter viral
surge, including implementing surge plans and decompression
measures, to optimize patient flow. This presentation will also
address best practices and lessons learned with the goal of
equipping hospitals to be prepared to meet the inevitable
pediatric winter viral surge.
Oct 4, 2023 | Disaster Planning for
California Hospitals
Overview:
California Initiated Public Safety Power Shutoffs to minimize the
risk of wildfires triggered by power lines, forcing hospitals to
rely on emergency power. Learn how hospital generator failures
led the LA County Healthcare Coalition to launch an initiative to
identify emergency power vulnerabilities and develop innovative
solutions to close gaps. It culminated with the publication of
the Healthcare Facility Emergency Power Resilience Playbook.
Attendees will learn to use the Playbook to bolster hospital
emergency power resilience in their jurisdictions.
Oct 4, 2023 | Disaster Planning for
California Hospitals
Overview:
A review of lessons learned from development, logistical
challenges, and exercise facilitation for a multi-hospital,
corporate-wide drill. Includes improvement planning activities
from our After-Action Report (AAR). Also, this presentation ties
in our follow-up exercise (June 2023) and shares challenges and
insights from this event.
The Joint Commission and the Centers for Medicare
& Medicaid Services require that health care entities
maintain “all-hazard” emergency preparedness and response
capability and capacity. Leveraging virtual reality (VR) as a
training modality for emergency management training holds great
promise as an effective, realistic, immersive, and scalable
health care training strategy. This session discussed adult
learning theory, emergency management training challenges and
strategies, and how virtual reality provides an efficient
alternative to traditional training methods.
Oct 4, 2023 | Disaster Planning for
California Hospitals
Overview:
A panel of pediatric disaster subject matter experts from the
WRAPEM organization presented information on multiple aspects of
pediatric care issues. The events of the 2022 pediatric
respiratory viral surge and the lessons learned from that event
will be covered, including template guidelines for pediatric
contingency care standards. Experts will lead the discussion to
the clear need for enhanced telemedicine and pediatric mental
health services in our health care system, each to be discussed
separately.
Presentation materials from this session are unavailable
Presenters:
Chris Newton, MD, Professor, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital
Oakland; Milissa Chanice, Operations Director, WRAPEM
James Marcin, MD, MPH, FAAP, FATA, Professor and Vice Chair
for Research, Department of Pediatrics, UC Davis School of
Medicine
Merritt D. Schreiber, PhD, Professor of Clinical Pediatrics,
Department of Pediatrics, Lundquist Institute, Harbor-UCLA
Medical Center, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Oct 4, 2023 | Disaster Planning for
California Hospitals
Overview:
A brief overview of the reimbursement process for FEMA’s Public
Assistance Program. Sutter Health’s interactive presentation will
share unique experiences and present a general framework used
should your facility be eligible to submit a disaster claim
(e.g., fire, flood, earthquake, COVID-19, etc.) to FEMA’s Public
Assistance Grant program..
There are nearly 400 Joint Commission-accredited
hospitals/critical access hospitals in California. This
presentation will provide information about:
Preparing for The Joint Commission’s Emergency Management
session.
Interpreting emergency management scoring data which can be
used to identify gaps within your organization.
Understanding the SAFER® Matrix to help your organization
efficiently drive data decisions and prioritize future
improvement efforts.
The presentation will also cover topics gleaned from direct
survey interaction with Joint Commission-accredited hospitals,
such as preparing and drilling for evacuation, cybersecurity, and
workplace violence.
Oct 3, 2023 | Disaster Planning for
California Hospitals
Overview:
Health care workers are particularly at risk of experiencing
workplace violence. The range of potential violence is broad and
can include simple acts of aggression to significant acts of
physical violence. As organizations work to better understand the
dynamics of workplace violence, additional attention needs to be
paid to the effect acts of workplace violence have on our
employees and organizations.
Oct 3, 2023 | Disaster Planning for
California Hospitals
Overview:
It takes partnership and cooperation to coordinate effective
large-scale drills. Do you know your community partners and how
do you get your village together to run drills that matter? Hear
how one community trauma center built their disaster world in a
place that has its own airport, fire department, police, and an
island. Let’s make drills make a difference.
Oct 3, 2023 | Disaster Planning for
California Hospitals
Overview:
The growing population of older adults in the United States with
complex medical conditions are typically the most severely
impacted by large-scale weather and climate disasters. A health
care systems’ ability to leverage technology and optimize limited
resources during an emergency is universal. Join us to learn
how the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) established the
Vulnerable Patient Care, Access, and Response in Emergencies (VP
CARE) Program to provide standardized data tools and guidance to
assist medical facilities with conducting outreach and care
coordination to vulnerable Veteran populations during major
emergencies.
Oct 3, 2023 | Disaster Planning for
California Hospitals
Overview:
UCLA Health developed an executive ransomware playbook to guide
leaders on the initial detection, confirmation, institutional
response priorities, and decision making following a
cyber-attack. Learn about the unique threat a cybersecurity
incident presents to a hospital and how to use those unique
considerations in the development of a response plan.
Oct 3, 2023 | Disaster Planning for
California Hospitals
Overview:
The California team of RDMHS’ will speak in a panel style
presentation that will feature true event examples of medical
health resource requests that were filled from within and outside
the region. These examples will include the challenges faced and
how they were resolved.
Oct 3, 2023 | Disaster Planning for
California Hospitals
Overview:
Describe PG&E’s overall Incident Command Structure (ICS)
during event activations, the power outage restoration process,
and will provide real-life examples of emergency events that
impacted hospitals. The presentation includes 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.
Oct 3, 2023 | Disaster Planning for California
Hospitals
Overview:
We know the value of caring for others and taking care of health
better than anyone. But we don’t do a good job ourselves. The
last few years have given everyone a gift. We have an opportunity
to pause and look at how we’re doing things and re-evaluate if
our strategies are working (or not). During this presentation,
we’ll be challenged to make personal commitments to showing up as
the best version of ourselves.