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Rising Above the Weatheran AMS Public Policy forum on hospital preparedness in the face of environmental extremes 2-3 April 2009 National Building Museum Pension Commissioner's Suite Washington, DC 20001
The AMS Policy Program in partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) convened a multi-displinary meeting that involved architects, attorneys, emergency managers, engineers, health care practitioners, insurance researchers, meteorological, and planning communities to address the reach and extent of our respective capabilities to protect these national critical infrastructures. The potential synergisms between our fields within the public and private sectors will be addressed in the final report. The workshop report is now available
Post-Forum Presentations: Joint Commission, April 15, 2009 (Washington, DC) U.S. Subcommittee on Disaster Reduction, July 2, 2009 (Washington, DC) Forum Presentations: Why this work matters: Weather complictions to health care delivery and infrastrustructure...Real-life stories Midwest Floods (Chad Ware, Emergency Manager, Iowa) CA Fire Weather (Steve Storbakken, Emergency Manager, San Fernando, CA) Tornadoes (Susie Fussel, VP Chief Nursing Officer, Sumter Regional Hospital, Americus, GA) Hurricanes (Maryanne Kridner, RN, Dallas, TX) Global Images of Weather Impacts to Public Health (R. Tom Sizemore, III, MD, Principal Deputy Director, Office of Preparedness and Emergency Operations, Department of Health and Human Services) Risk! What is it? And why is the U.S. so vulnerable? Understanding Risk (Gerry Galloway, P.E., PhD, University of Maryland) Climate and Weather Scale Impacts: Dimensions of Vulnerability Reduction to Hospitals Weather and climate scales. What's the difference? And products and services from the public and private weather services that can help. Preparing for Cx versus Wx Impacts (Bryan McNally, MD, MPH, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlant, GA) NOAA Decision Support (David Jorgensen, PhD, Res. Met & Chief, Warning R&D Division, NOAA) AccuWx (Mike Steinberg, Senior Vice President, AccuWeather) Building Codes and Engineering Hospital codes and engineering recommendations to weathering the environment. Joint Commission's EM Standards for Critical Functions (John Fishbeck, R.A., Joint Comission, Standards and Survey Methods) FEMA Design Guide for Hospitals (Paul Tertell, PE, FEMA Mitigation Directorate) Existing Preparedness Practices Where weather information is incorporated into near and long-term hospital preparedness Alabama Incident Mgmt System (AIMS) (David Wallace, DVM, AIMS) Hospital Safety Index (Ciro Ugarte, MD, Pan American Health Organization) Disaster Med and Public Health Preparedness, an AMA journal (James James, MD MHA & Editor-in-chief of journal) Opportunities to Combine All-Hazards for Hospitals How are we combining mandatory all-hazard preparedness for hospitals? Perspectives and activies from the following: Am. Institute of Architects (Janice Olshesky, AIA, LEED, AP) Fire & EM Medical Services (Jim Augustine, MD, DCFD) Centers for Disease Control (Jean Randolph, RN, COHN-S/CM, MPA, FAAOHN) FEMA's National Exercise Simulation Center (Keith Holtermann, Ph.D., MBA, MPH, RN, Director, National Exercise & Simulation Center) Ethics and Liability Issues in Health Care Preparedness and Response What are the legal realities, challenges and opportunities, and what is available to uphold a hospital's ethical responsibility to protect patients and staff? Evacuation Insurane Policy (Cheryl Deschaine, RN, EM Prgrm Mgr for the Children's Hosp of the King's Daughters Health Care System, Norfolk, VA) Legal Triage (James Hodge, JD, LLM, Executive Director, Centers for Law and Public's Health, Johns Hopkins University and Georgetown University) Structural Insurance and Risk Management How can insurance be an effective risk-manangement tool? Insurance Product Lines (Debra Ballen, Gen. Councel & Tim Rienhold, PhD, Institute for Business and Home Safety, IBHS) Public/Private Weather Services The Power of 2 and opportunities for both sectors to assist in this national effort The UK Model (Antero Jarvinen, MediXine) AccuWx (Michael Steinberg, SVP, AccuWeather) NOAA/NWS (Ed Johnson, Ph.D., NOAA/NWS, Director, Office of Strategic Planning and Policy) Space Weather: The Next Frontier in Severe Impacts Space weather has the potential to disturb the electrical grid, which hospitals heavily rely upon. Though not caused by space weather, the OH-NY 2003 blackout presentation gives a glimpse of what can happen in hospitals when the lights go out, and the space weather presentation gives a picture of the types of impacts that we could expect. NYC Dept. of Health & 2003 Blackout (Isaac Weisfuse, MD, NYC Department of Health) The Fundamental Science of Space Weather (Bill Murtagh, Ph.D., NOAA/NWS Science and Technology Infusion Branch)
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