Mary Massey, B.S.N, MA, PHN, has over thirty years experience in
clinical and administrative management of hospital emergency
medical services. She participates in multi-agency task
forces, and development of the Hospital Incident Command System
as a member of the HICSi National Workgroup. She is a graduate
from the Naval Postgraduate School with a Masters in Homeland
Security and Defense.
Disruption is now the norm, and hospitals must be prepared to
respond to multiple types of disasters – sometimes running
simultaneous responses or prolonged Incident Command Centers.
Learn from an emergency preparedness coordinator whose hospital
has opened HICSi 17 times in seven years, responding to a wide
variety of disasters. During this session, you’ll learn how to
engage staff and leaders in a meaningful way to build a living,
relevant EM program that has the strength to be flexible, adding
resilience to your team to emerge stronger after disasters.
Presenter:
Morgan Jarus, Emergency Preparedness
Coordinator, Sutter Lakeside Hospital
The National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) Pilot Program is
identifying opportunities to enhance partnerships between
military and civilian health care systems to improve
military-civilian interoperability and medical surge capabilities
and capacity to care for combat casualties repatriated to the
United States. This session will provide an overview of the pilot
program, activities completed to date, highlight medical surge
readiness and opportunities for improvement in the Sacramento
region based on stakeholder feedback. Attendees will leave with a
better understanding of opportunities and mechanisms to improve
medical surge readiness in California.
Presenter:
Kelly Anderson, Enterprise Emergency
Management, City of Hope
Kaiser Permanente embarked upon a journey to standardize
emergency response and research and deploy an incident response
tool which will allow the organization to communicate effectively
in an accurate and timely manner. Join us in a discussion to
review the research, development and implementation process
Kaiser has utilized to adopt and standardize a hospital incident
response system covering eight regions, 42 hospitals and a
national command center. The purpose of the discussion will be to
help others identify technology needs, potential questions,
issues and strategies.
Presenters:
Kimberly Galey, National EM
Consultant
Shakiara Kitchen, CHEP, CEM, Regional
Practice Specialist, Emergency Management, Kaiser Permanente
An active shooter event is likely one of the worst events that
can happen within a medical facility due to trauma, loss of
potential life, and the continued need for patient care. The
active shooter training within hospital settings will assist
leadership and educators in establishing protocols, training
strategies, community assessment of coverage, and developing a
recovery response plan.
Presenters:
Angela Warneke, Hospital
Administrator, County of San Diego
Michael Pacheco, Detective, San Diego
County Sheriff Department
Learn how UCDH conducted an in-depth inventory of the current EM
program and used a focused self-assessment protocol to identify
and address gaps that can be easily applied to your hospital’s EM
Program. Hear how this collaboration opportunity with
stakeholders increased the success of the EM program, and what
The Joint Commission surveyors thought of these efforts.
Available tools for attendees include an updated Hazard
Vulnerability Analysis template and standards cheat sheet
spreadsheet.
Presenters:
Kristina Spurgeon, Emergency Manager,
UC Davis Health
Charles Schafer, Emergency Management
Coordinator, UC Davis Health
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. Cross-institutional
collaborations within communities offer unique opportunities to
prevent or mitigate health disparities in resource utilization
and access to care. In this session, San Francisco Department of
Public Health will present on their collaboration with health
systems that allowed them to do just that.
Presenters:
Tiffany Riviera, Deputy Director,
PHEPR, San Francisco Department of Public Health
Mary Mercer, MD, Clinical Health
Systems
Lukejohn Day, MD, Chief Medical
Officer, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has revealed weaknesses in the
health care system and how we deliver care. The Emergency
Department is often on the frontline when making difficult
decisions regarding care when resources become scarce. It is
important to address this with education on crisis standards of
care as well as scrutiny of existing models. This includes
challenging how they are best designed to meet our current needs,
where there might be crucial gaps in the assessment of need and
delivery of care, and when they must be implemented.
Presenter:
Martha Meredith Masters, Clinical
Assistant Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine
K9s represent an effective way to prevent and reduce hospital
violence and increase safety for patients, staff and visitors.
This panel discussion explores the pros and cons of using
protection dogs in hospitals and/or hospital emergency rooms.
Presenters currently work in hospitals using protection dogs or
with security companies providing canines for hospital security.
Presenters:
Mark Bosque, Founder & CEO, K9
X-Factor
Marcus Brown, K9 Security Officer,
Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center
Mike Dunning, Principal Consultant,
The Healthcare Security Consulting Group, LLC
Michael Vestino, Dr, PH, MHA, EML,
FACHE, Vice President of Support Services, Pomona Valley
Hospital Medical Center
This session will provide emergency management personnel with an
overview of hospital evacuation considerations when there are
only minutes to hours to prepare. The life cycle of an evacuation
event will be presented including the Pre-Evacuation, Evacuation,
and Post-Evacuation stages, with a focus on the preparedness and
response actions in each stage. The components of a standardized
evacuation toolkit and recommendations for hospitals/health care
systems to adapt and implement the toolkit will be reviewed.
Presenter:
Suzy Fitzgerald, MD, FACEP, FAAEM,
Regional EM Training Director & Emergency Physician, Kaiser
Permanente Northern California
Shakiara Kitchen, CHEP, CEM, Regional
Practice Specialist, Emergency Management, Kaiser Permanante