During the pandemic, healthcare workers experienced professional
and personal losses, pushed themselves beyond their limits, and
learned more than ever expected.
Through it all, their greatest strength was resiliency.
Despite the challenges presented, they strengthened ties with
colleagues, communities, and families: the 2022 Disaster
Planning Conference for California Hospitals is an opportunity to
reconnect and share the collective lessons learned from this
unprecedented time.
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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
This presentation demonstrates how CHOC adapted to the barrage of
issues that were faced during COVID-19. The hospital command
center (HCC) implemented day care for staff families, outdoor
preprocedural drive-through testing, staff guidance and
information sharing through “Source of Truth” messaging and
two-way situational reporting amongst coalition peers.
Documenting all activities through a virtual HCC tool with over
6,000 activity log entries over 36 operational periods has proven
to be a best practice that made a daunting task manageable.
Presenters:
Christopher Riccardi, CHSP, CHEP,
Manager, Emergency Management & Business Continuity
Calvin Fakkema, Director of Support
Services, Children’s Health of Orange County (CHOC)
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
The AFN Guidebook is a tool hospital emergency managers can use
to broaden their understanding of diverse AFN communities while
empowering them to develop hospital policies and procedures, risk
assessments, and Emergency Operations Plans (EOPs) capable of
meeting the complexities associated with serving the AFN
community during disasters.
Presenters:
Kevin Muszynski, Project Manager,
Support Services
Steve Storbakken, Director, Emergency
Preparedness & Environment of Care Compliance, Pomona Valley
Hospital Medical Center
L. Vance Taylor, Chief, Office of
Access and Functional Needs, California Governor’s Office of
Emergency Services
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
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.
Presenters:
Clair Pelura, Manager, Deloitte
Consulting
Patrick Femia, Business Analyst,
Deloitte Consulting
Gabriela House-Lee, Project Manager,
Operations, Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of
Military Medicine
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 public information officer (PIO) is a vital part of the
incident command team, charged with delivering accurate
information to the right people at the right time. This session
will review the role of the PIO and present attendees with
strategies for utilizing social media for emergency
communications.
Presenter:
Valerie Lakey, Executive Director,
Mayers Memorial Hospital District
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
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
On May 24, 2022, 19 students and two teachers were fatally shot,
and 17 others were wounded, at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde,
Texas. In a community of just over 16,000 people, responders
faced one known factor — they likely knew victims involved in the
shooting. In spite of this, emergency responders had to keep
their focus on their jobs: saving lives. The dialogue will take a
profound dive into the on-scene perspective, regional mutual aid
response, resources deployed, and the role of the Incident
Commander at the Uvalde Memorial Hospital on that tragic day.
Presenter:
Eric Epley, Executive Director & CEO,
Uvalde Memorial Hospital
Jordan Ghawi, Director of Strategic
Initiatives, and TX-EMTF Task Force Leader, Southwest Texas
Regional Advisory Council (STRAC);
Julia Rodriguez, Emergency Director,
Uvalde Memorial Hospital
This presentation provides information about the new and revised
Emergency Management chapter standards and elements of
performance (EPs) and provide recommendations for implementing
the new and revised standards/Eps as well as understand the new
survey process . It is specifically for Joint Commission
Accredited Hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals. At the
conclusion of this presentation, participants will be able to:
Describe new and revised Emergency Management chapter
standards for HAP/CAH Accreditation Programs
Discuss and understand the new Survey Process
Identify Emergency management available chapter resources
Chemical emergencies can happen at any time at health care
facilities. The impact may not only be to the facility but
patients, staff, and the surrounding community. To assist
hospitals and all health care partners, ASPR/TRACIE has developed
a “Chemical Emergency Considerations for Health Care Facilities”
resource to assist in preparing and responding to chemical
emergencies.
Presenter:
Jason Wilken, PHD, MPH, CDC Career
Epidemiology Field Officer
Danny Kwon, MPH, REHS, California
Department of Public Health
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
The primary objective of this presentation is to assist other
health care facilities with improving their own response and
business continuity plans in the event of a wildfire evacuation.
Presenters share lessons learned from the full-scale evacuation
of Barton Memorial Hospital and Skilled Nursing Facility in
response to the Caldor Fire. We will discuss the logistical
challenges of evacuating and repopulating a bistate rural health
care system, explore staffing and personnel challenges and
considerations, and review lessons learned.
Presenter:
April Boyde, MSSM, CPP, Safety
and Security Manage
Elizabeth Stork, Chief Human Resource
Officer, Barton Health
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
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
This session provides a proposed Model State and
Multi-Jurisdictional Pediatric Surge PLAYBOOK (Master Guide
Toolkit) to maximize and leverage pediatric surge operational
capability during catastrophic events across local, state, and
regional borders. It aligns and supports existing national, and
state pediatric surge/emergency operations plans, and hospital
plans. Recommendations can be utilized by a future integrated
command structure across state jurisdictions to collectively
leverage and incorporate pediatric situational awareness and
response capabilities.
Presenters:
Cynthia Frankel, RN, MN Pediatric Surge
Lead, HPP LEMSA Liaison and EMSC Coordinator, WRAP-EM Working
Group & Alameda County EMS
Michael Frogel, MD, Chairman, National
Pediatric Disaster Coalition
Mary A. King, MD, MPH, Medical
Director, Trauma Pediatric ICU, Harborview Medical Center,
University of Washington
Damien Siwik, Project Manager
University of Michigan, C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital
Now, more than ever, first responders and health care workers
must be resilient. Resilience means being, living, working, and
playing well. It means living the best life possible. While most
people want to be more resilient, many simply do not know how.
This session helps participants define and understand resilience
and teaches ways to build resilience in a no-nonsense and
completely achievable way.
