Overview
Advance planning that maintains a hospital’s ability to provide critical services during disasters can be a matter of life and death for its patients and the community it serves. Join us for an interactive learning experience that will test your knowledge and readiness to respond to different types of critical failures in a hospital. Attendees will participate in a tabletop exercise with their peers and collaborate to solve challenges during a complex emergency situation. Participants will also engage in a panel-led shared learnings session to discover how other organizations prepare and stay ready to respond.
Attendees are encouraged to invite co-workers in emergency management, and/or co-workers with clinical knowledge to assist them in the exercises. Attendance at this event may count towards your organization’s inclusion of community partners as required in your planning process.
Learning Objectives
- Ensure that Plant Operations has a plan to respond to multiple issues during a complex emergency scenario
- Learn how a written Incident Response Guide can help your team make good decisions rapidly during an emergency
- Learn why a written emergency plan is better than relying on institutional knowledge
- Take home ways to improve your organization’s emergency operations plan
Speakers
- John O’Brien, CHFM, MBA, LEED AP | Regional Director – Environmental Safety & Emergency Preparedness, SSM Health — St. Louis, Southern Illinois and Mid Missouri
- Nicki Newton – SSM Health – Emergency Preparedness Specialist – MA Emergency Management and Homeland Security – Community Resilience, Arizona State Univ.
- Calvin Bruce – SSM Health – Emergency Preparedness Specialist – BS Emergency Management and Disaster Science, Univ. Of Nebraska at Omaha
CECs
This program offers 3 hours of continuing education credit.