Altered Standards of Care & Surge Capacity Conference
Mass Casualty Management in Times of Crisis
The AAMA Research & Educational Foundation, in conjunction with the American College of Contingency Planners (ACCP) will award 9 non-AAMA Continuing Education Credits (9 CEUs).
About This Conference:
The Altered Standards of Care & Surge Capacity Conference will bring together an influential gathering of medical and public health leaders to teach preparedness planners at the Federal, State, regional, community, and health systems levels how to plan and support surge capacity in healthcare systems and develop altered standards of care to meet mass casualty needs during all-hazard and hazard-specific emergencies.
At this 1.5 day conference, best practices for preparedness will be highlighted for disasters, acts of terrorism, and pandemic diseases.
According to a new DoD policy released Sept.1, 2008, military treatment commanders and all levels of commanders and healthcare providers through DoD must incorporate “altered standards of care” into their mass casualty plans. This will include a critical analysis at local levels of delivery of emergency response and medical care plans during a pandemic and other public healthcare emergencies. At the conference, you’ll hear from special guest speaker, LTC Wayne E. Hachey, DoD, on how you should interpret and/or integrate this memo into your preparedness plan. Click here for more info.
What You Will Learn:
- What is being done at the state and local levels in planning for a mass casualty event
- How to assess the capacity of health care facilities and systems in your region, and how to best prepare to respond to a terrorist or other public health emergency
- Characteristics of medical surge capacity demand for disasters
- Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) surge capacity priorities, activities, and initiatives
- DHS recommendations on Medical Preparedness for Major Consequence Events
- How EMS operations are affected in times of crisis
- Funding opportunities under the Hospital Preparedness Program
- Legal issues to consider during disasters
- A national viewpoint of alternate care facilities
- Approaches for regional cooperation for surge capacity and altered standards of care
- Role of academic medicine in surge capacity
- The 3S concept of Surge Capacity -- Staff, Stuff and Structure -- and global applications to a Crisis Standard of Care
- New Strategies for Medical Surge Mitigation
- And more!
Who Should Attend:
- City, County, State and Federal Emergency Planners and Public Health Professionals
- Hospital-based Disaster and Emergency Planners and Healthcare Providers
- Doctors, nurses, Paramedics and EMT's, and allied health professionals
- Hospital and Healthcare Administrators, CEO's and COO's
- Clinicians and First Responder Personnel (EMT, paramedics, etc.)
- Primary Medical Care Professionals
- Logisticians and Planners
- Emergency and preventive medicine sectors involved in the response to an influenza pandemic
- Federal Partner Agencies involved with the National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza
- Private industry with products, services and solutions to respond to pandemic disease and mass casualty events
Executive Steering Committee:
The Executive Steering Committee develops the overall training conference strategy, provides guidance on key topics and speakers and provides overall advice with respect to the content and its application in a management/decision-making environment. The Executive Steering Committee for this conference includes:- Edward M. Eitzen, Jr., MD, MPH, Senior Partner, Martin, Blanck & Associates
- Randy Culpepper, MD, MPH, Partner, Martin, Blanck & Associates
- Stephen V. Cantrill, MD
What Previous Attendees Said About our Medical Conferences:
"This was an excellent comprehensive conference that will inevitably assist me in my planning efforts. I strongly encourage emergency medical planners (especially from hospitals) to attend this conference in the future." - Garrett Havican, Regional Planning Coordinator for Hartford Hospital, Connecticut Center of Excellence for Bioterrorism Preparedness"Truly Superb Speakers! Excellent Conference. Extremely glad I attended! I feel like I met the cutting-edge thinkers and do-ers for Emergency Preparedness." - David Pytlewski, MD; Deputy Health Officer, Worcester County (Maryland) Health Department
"This was wonderful! The networking opportunities abound! I made many surprising introductions. Would eagerly attend again." - SMSgt. Tyrelle Rogers (USAF), Medical Planner, JTFCS, Ft. Monroe, VA