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.
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.
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 3, 2023 | Disaster Planning for
California Hospitals
Overview:
Addresses how PIH Health created a comprehensive enterprise plan
to support pediatric medical patient needs in the event the LA
County (LAC) Pediatric Surge Plan activation or pediatric
transfers for higher level of care are severely delayed due to
limited capacity at pediatric hospitals or pediatric units due to
overwhelming regional/national surge.
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 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.
The Joint Commission and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
require 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 healthcare training strategy.
This session discussed adult learning theory, emergency
management training challenges and strategies, and how the use of
VR for emergency management training provides an effective,
efficient, realistic, and scalable alternative to traditional
training methods
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.