EMS Response to CBRNE/HazMat Incidents

Boston Marathon Trainings: Use of the Emergency Tracking System & City of Boston WebEOC for ESF #8

March 28 & 29, 2018
Webinars
This webinar series prepares public health and healthcare personnel and emergency management partners to use response technology available during the 2018 Boston Marathon. ETS provides an overview of the Emergency Tracking System (ETS) for public health and healthcare staff as they prepare to conduct and monitor patient tracking during the Boston Marathon.  WebEOC  provides an overview of the City of Boston WebEOC system, and includes a review of updates to WebEOC in the last year.
 

Module III: Hospital-Based Patient Decontamination Operations

May 22 & 23, 2018
Boston, MA

This course has been developed specifically for operational members or managers of hospital-based patient decontamination programs. The course is designed to engage participants in a discussion-based learning environment and consists of eight hours of classroom instruction, followed by a fast-paced, hands-on, eight-hour practical session involving the deployment of patient decontamination equipment.

New Course: Recovery Planning for Public Health & Healthcare Organizations
 

We are excited to announce that we will offer our new course, Recovery Planning for Public Health and Healthcare Organizations, from May 1 – 31, 2018. This four-week, fully online course will guide learners through guidance and best practices for long-term recovery planning, with opportunities for group discussion and planning with peers throughout Massachusetts. 

This course will open for registration in the next few weeks.  In the meantime, if you have suggestions for what to address in this course, or you have an example of recovery in action, email us at delvalle@bphc.org to contribute input.

The Office of Public Health Preparedness is Hiring! 

Resources for Active Shooter Incidents

Active shooter and mass casualty incidents have far-reaching public health impacts. Hospitals, health centers and other public health and healthcare settings represent a unique set of challenges for active shooter planning. We have compiled the following resources to enhance and maintain your readiness for this type of event:

• Active Shooter Planning and Response, a resource for healthcare settings based on the Run, Hide, Fight model, provided by the Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council and the International Association of Emergency Medical Services Chiefs
• Incorporating Active Shooter Incident Planning into Health Care Facility Emergency Operations Plans: 2014 Guidance from FEMA, ASPR, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Dept. of Homeland Security, and Dept. of Justice
• Armed—Are you Ready?, an active shooter/hostage training for healthcare settings from the MDPH Region 4 Hospitals Planning Committee
• An Active Shooter Drill with a video and training resources for hospitals to practice their own drills from the Hospital Association of Southern California 
• Mitigating Violence in Healthcare Facilities, a one-hour DelValle Institute webinar that teaches techniques to prevent a violent situation from escalating and reviews potential effects of violence on healthcare staff
• Stop the Bleed materials and resources for training on the management of life-threatening bleeding, available from the National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health and the Department of Homeland Security

• Participate in the upcoming ASPR-TRACIE webinar, Healthcare Response to No-Notice Events: Las Vegas on March 28, 2018.
• Take the new self-paced online course Social Media Analysis During Disasters, offered by the National Institutes of Health and National Library of Medicine.
• Explore the new social media topic collection from ASPR-TRACIE.
• Read this CDC bulletin, Shouting in the Dark: USVI’s Emergency Communication for Irma and Maria.
• View the recording of a recent ASPR-TRACIE webinar Pediatric Issues in Disasters.
• Read this special report from the Texas Hospital Association, Hurricane Harvey Analysis: Texas Hospitals’ Preparation Strategies and Priorities for Future Disaster Response.
• Review these tips and tools for reaching limited English proficient communities in emergency preparedness, response and recovery.
• Watch this video of the executive director of Harris County Public Health discuss disasters, preparedness and climate change in Houston, Texas.
• Check out this article which summarizes CDC data indicating this year’s flu season may have reached its peak.
• Use this self-assessment tool to assess health center readiness to comply with the CMS Emergency Preparedness Rule.
• Read this report from Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security on healthcare disaster resilience. 
• View this FEMA PrepTalk, Next Pandemic: Lessons from History, regarding influenza pandemics.
   

• Boston Emergency Medical Services (BEMS)
• Boston Healthcare Preparedness Coalition (HPC)
• Conference of Boston Teaching Hospitals (COBTH)
• Harvard Emergency Preparedness Research, Evaluation & Practice (EPREP)
• Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH)
• Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency (MEMA)
• Boston Office of Emergency Management (OEM)
• The Local Public Health Institute (LPHI)