Emergency Management Summit Features Hospital Disaster Management Strategies

PRESS RELEASE: Emergency Management Summit Features Hospital Disaster Management Strategies

The Leading Forum on Disaster, Epidemic and Terrorism Planning, Response and Recovery for Healthcare Organizations
March 4 - 6, 2009
Renaissance Washington DC Hotel, Washington, DC
www.EmergencyManagementSummit.com

PRESS RELEASE
Phone: 800-684-4549
Email: registration@hcconferences.com
Website: www.EmergencyManagementSummit.com

WASHINGTON DC USA -- HEALTHCARE UPDATE NEWS SERVICE - JANUARY 8, 2009: The National Emergency Management Summit, www.EmergencyManagementSummit.com, March 4 - 6, 2009, at the Renaissance Washington DC Hotel in Washington, DC announced today that it will feature special sessions on hospital disaster management.

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HOSPITAL DISASTER MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES

The Emergency Management Summit features the following special sessions on hospital disaster management:

Creating Hospital Emergency Support Functions (HESF) in Support of Reallocation of Resources
After the Funding: Why Hospital Emergency Preparedness Continues to Fall Short
Hospital Use of a Process Enhancement Model to Optimize Scarce Disaster Preparedness Resources
Removal of Exogenous Contaminant: Assessing the First Receiver Hospital Decontamination Team
Hospital Preparedness: A Pilot Program for Radiation Monitoring in Emergency Departments
Overview of the Key Elements in Planning, Conducting, Evaluating, and Reporting on Hospital Disaster Drills
Panel on Direct Experiences from the Field: Large Medical Center, Medium, Suburban Hospital and Small Rural Hospital
Mutual Aid Agreements for Hospital Evacuation
Hospital Pharmaceutical Countermeasures
Hospital Readiness for Pandemics
Case Study: Communications Preparedness at St. Vincent's Catholic Medical Center
Case Study: Hospital Disaster Response and Recovery in Hurricanes Gustav and Ike
Case Study: Using a Real-time Location System (RTLS) to Improve Hospital Response in Disaster
Case Study: Digital Technology and Disaster Response - EHRs, Satellites, and RHIOs: Lessons from Tulane University Hospital during Katrina
Case Study: Live from the Scene: Actual Video Footage of Tokyo First-Receiver Hospital Response in Sarin Attack, with Critique
Case Study: A Trauma Hospital Responds to the September 2008 Metrolink Train Disaster
Case Studies: Use of Non-Traditional Hospital Space and An Alternate Care Site during an Emergency
Case Study: New Lessons and Ideas from Receiving Hospitals in the Gustav Evacuations

SUMMIT OVERVIEW

A extraordinary confluence of events, both environmental and geopolitical, have coalesced to create a heightened risk of natural disaster, epidemic and terrorism in the United States. The National Emergency Management Summit seeks to assess these risks and articulate practical approaches to strategies of planning, response and recovery.

FEATURING THE FOLLOWING PRECONFERENCE SESSIONS

Preconference I: Emergency Management 101 for Health Professionals
Preconference II: Key Elements and Issues in Conducting and Evaluating Disaster Drills in the Healthcare Sector

SPECIAL SESSIONS

The Role of the Department of Homeland Security in Healthcare Emergency Preparedness
Update on Joint Commission Emergency Preparedness Requirements
New Health Plan Roles in Member Emergency Preparedness Education and Assistance
A "Crisis Standard of Care": Doing the Right Thing When You Must Do Something and You Can't Do Everything
Leadership Roundtable on the Hot Healthcare Emergency Management Issues for Providers in 2009
Past as Prologue - Lessons Learned, Best Practices, and Innovative Ideas to Guide Future Emergency Management Planning
Improving Disaster Preparedness in an Era of Scarce Resources
Creating Hospital Emergency Support Functions (HESF) in Support of Reallocation of Resources
Linking Plan and Providers in Disaster Response Through an Electronic Medical Record
Digital Technology and Disaster Response - EHRs, Satellites, and RHIOs
Hospital Preparedness: A Pilot Program for Radiation Monitoring in Emergency Departments
Mutual Aid Agreements for Hospital Evacuation
Hospital Disaster Response and Recovery in Hurricanes Gustav and Ike
A People-Centered Approach to Measuring the Quality of Disaster Response - The California Wildfires of 2007
Hospital Pharmaceutical Countermeasures
After the Funding: Why Hospital Emergency Preparedness Continues to Fall Short
Hospital Use of a Process Enhancement Model to Optimize Scarce Disaster Preparedness Resources
Using a Real-time Location System (RTLS) to Improve Hospital Response in Disaster
Field Triage and Transport: A Case Study of Good Pre-Incident Planning
Nursing Homes in Disasters: Part of the Solution
Post-Disaster Counseling for Caregivers
Lessons from Aviation on Situational Awareness in Disaster Response

MINI-SUMMITS

Mini-Summit I - Preparing for and Responding to Pandemics
Mini-Summit II - Managing Hospital Surge: Reports from Ground Zero
Mini-Summit III - The Flip Side of Surge: Evacuations - Getting Everybody Out

POST CONFERENCE SESSION

Post Conference: International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) Certified Emergency Manager (CEM) Preparatory Exam Course and Examination

Russell Decker, CEM
Director, Allen Co. Emergency Management, President, International Association of Emergency Managers, Co-author, Homeland Security Handbook for Citizens and Public Officials, Lima, OH

FEATURED FACULTY

Knox Andress, RN, FAEN Designated Regional Coordinator, Louisiana Region 7 Hospitals, Louisiana State University Health Sciences System, Shreveport, LA
Denis P. Andrulis, PhD, MPH Associate Dean for Research, Director of the Center for Health Equality, Drexel University School of Public Health, Philadelphia, PA
Elizabeth Aton Deputy Commissioner, Hazard Analysis, St. Louis Local Emergency Management Commission, St. Louis, MO
Elisabeth Belmont, Esq. Corporate Counsel, MaineHealth, Past President, American Health Lawyers Association, Portland, ME
Tareg Bey, MD, FACEP, ABMT, DEAA Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine and Director of International, Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA
Paul Biddinger, MD, FACEP Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
David Bouslough, MD, MPH, FACEP Chief of Emergency Medicine, LBJ Tropical Medical Center, Pago Pago, American Samoa
Tracy Buchman, DHA Safety Director, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison, WI
Steve Cantrill, MD, FACEP Associate Director, Department of Emergency Medicine, Denver, Health Medical Center, Denver, CO
Joseph L. Cappiello Chairman and CEO, Cappiello & Associates, Oakbrook Terrace, IL
George W. Contreras, MPH, MS, EMT-P President and Chief Executive Officer, The GWC Group, LLC, Adjunct Professor, Emergency & Disaster Management, Metropolitan College of New York; Paramedic, New York Downtown Hospital & St. Vincent's Hospital, New York, NY
Diana C. Dennett Executive Vice President, America's Health Insurance Plans, Washington, DC
Susan E. Eckert, RN, MSN Director, Institute for Innovations in Nursing Readiness, Washington Hospital Center/ER One Institute, Washington, DC
Edward J. Gabriel, MPA, AEMT-P, CEM, CBCP Deputy Commissioner, Planning and Preparedness, New York City Office of Emergency Management (retired), Assistant Chief, New York City Fire Department - FDNY EMS (retired), Global Director, Crisis Management and Business Continuity, The Walt Disney Company, Los Angeles, CA
Sharon KD Hoskins, MPH Coordinator Editor, Pandemic Flu Storybook, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA
Edbert Hsu Associate Professor and Director of Training, Johns Hopkins Office of CEPAR, Baltimore, MD
Thomas D. Kirsch, MD, MPH Co-Director, Center for Refugee and Disaster Response (CRDR), Bloomberg School of Public Health, Associate Professor and Director of Operations, Department of Emergency Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Kristi L. Koenig, MD, FACEP Professor of Emergency Medicine, Director of Public Health Preparedness, Co-Director, EMS and Disaster Medical Sciences Fellowship, University of California at Irvine, School of Medicine, Irvine, CA
Jon R. Krohmer, MD, FACEP Acting Assistant Secretary for Health Affairs, and Chief Medical Officer, US Department of Homeland Security, Washington, DC
Abigail Matos-Pagan, DNP, ANPC, RN Associate Professor University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Founder & Director Coalition of Nurses for Communities in Disaster, Mayaguez, PR
Matt Minson, MD Senior Medical Officer for Strategic Initiatives, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, US Department of Health & Human Services, Washington, DC
Jocelyn Montgomery, RN, PHN Director of Clinical Affairs, California Association of Health Facilities, Sacramento, CA
Michael A. Noska, MS Captain, US Public Health Service, US Department of Heath & Human Services, Rockville, MD
Gregg A. Pane, MD, MPA, FACEP Director, National Healthcare Preparedness Programs, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services/ASPR, Washington, DC
James L. Paturas Deputy Director, Center for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Response, Yale New Haven Health System, New Haven, CT
Sally Phillips, RN, PhD Director, Bioterrorism Preparedness Research Program, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD
Scot Phelps Associate Professor of Emergency Management, School of Health and Human Services, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT
Robin A. Robinson, PhD Director, Biomedical Advanced Research & Development Authority (BARDA) Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness & Responses, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Washington, DC
Patricia A. Rowell, Ph.D., APRN, BC Scientific Program Manager - Implementation and Management, Health Services Research & Development, US Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC
Carl H. Schultz, MD Professor of Emergency Medicine, Co-Director, EMS and Disaster Medical Sciences Fellowship, UC Irvine School of Medicine; Director, Disaster Medical Services, Emergency Department, UC Irvine Medical Center, Irvine, CA
Skip Skivington, MBA Healthcare Community Management Oversight Group, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA
Leiloni Stainsby Deputy Director, Lessons Learned Information Sharing, Arlington VA
R. Steven Tharratt, MD Director, Emergency Medical Services Authority, State of California, Sacramento, CA

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT SUMMIT ADVISORY BOARD

John Iglehart
Founding Editor, Health Affairs, National Correspondent, New England Journal of Medicine, Washington, DC (Chair)

Donna Barbisch
Retired Army Reserve MG, Washington, DC

Marvin L. Birnbaum, MD, Ph.D.
President, World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine, Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Physiology, Director, Emergency Medical Services Program, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Connie J. Boatright, MSN, RN
Emergency Managemement Consultant, Indiana Primary Health Care Association, Indianapolis, IN

Joseph L. Cappiello
Chairman and CEO, Cappiello & Associates, Oakbrook Terrace, IL

Joxel Garcia, MD, MBA
Senior Vice President, MAXIMUS Federal Services, Inc., Former Deputy Director, Pan American Health Organization, Former Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Public Health, Reston, VA

Kristi L. Koenig, MD, FACEP
Professor of Emergency Medicine, Director of Public Health Preparedness, Co-Director, EMS and Disaster Medical Sciences Fellowship, University of California at Irvine, School of Medicine, Former National Director, Emergency Management Office, US Department of Veterans Affairs, Orange, CA

Peter C. Losi
Vice President, Response Government Operations, American Red Cross, Former Chief for the Joint Staff Logistics Readiness Center, The Pentagon, Washington, DC

Kathie McCracken, RN, MHA, FACHE
Pandemic Influenza Program Manager and Healthcare Sector Specialist, Infrastructure Partnerships Division, Department of Homeland Security, Washington, DC

Sally Phillips, RN, Ph.D.
Director, Bioterrorism Preparedness Research Program, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD

Robert A. Wise, MD
Vice President, Division of Standards and Survey Methods, The Joint Commission, Oakbrook Terrace, IL

SUMMIT EXHIBIT & SPONSORSHIP INFORMATION

For sponsorship and exhibit information contact Joni Lipson, Exhibit Manager, 215-599-6626 phone, 215-545-8107 fax, or at joni.lipson@rmpinc.com.

SUMMIT REGISTRATION INFORMATION

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