Leadership

Stanley McChrystal: Listen, learn ... then lead
 
Four-star general Stanley McChrystal shares what he learned about leadership over his decades in the military. How can you build a sense of shared purpose among people of many ages and skill sets? By listening and learning -- and addressing the possibility of failure.
 
http://www.ted.com/talks/stanley_mcchrystal.html?awesm=on.ted.com_McChrystal
 
The attached link (15 minutes in length) is from Maj Gen Stanley McChrystal (now a Yale Professor) who talks about leadership development and leading in the 21st century in a Web 2.0 world where leaders can become overwhelmed in time compressed and information technology accelerated situations. 
 
http://www.ted.com/talks/stanley_mcchrystal.html?awesm=on.ted.com_McChrystal

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Fwd: [Hospital Emergency Management] Accommodating Accommodations - A Hospital Staff Sheltering Tabletop Exercise

Dear Hospital / Healthcare Preparedness Colleague,

 

 

If hospital staff sheltering during natural or other disasters is a concern for your facility, please read on.

 

 

 

"Accommodating Accommodations"

A Hospital Staff Sheltering Tabletop Exercise

 

 

Recent hurricanes, tropical storms, floods, winter storms and other disasters have caused hospitals to examine their staff sheltering plans. Many hospitals report they don't have any. What often is the ad hoc "Plan" ranges from turning unused patient rooms, classrooms or doctor sleep-rooms into staff sleep areas, or bringing back decommissioned beds; usually with the understanding these areas will be vacated should patient surge occur. Other hospitals state they have motels / hotels in the area that could be used. The problem here is that if hospital staff are stranded then it's likely visitors in the community are also stranded – at the motels / hotels.  Some hospitals report that the need for staff sheltering seems to be happening at an increasing frequency.

 

Sleeping accommodations are not the extent of the issue. There's also the need to provide bedding, toiletries, and food. And in some instances, staff may be distracted or actually leave if their family (including pets)  which, for them, becomes a higher priority. Could / should the hospital staff shelter plan include their families? Finally, the very real potential for patient surge during these severe weather situations further complicates the time, efforts and resources directed towards staff (and family?) sheltering.

 

So what's a hospital to do?

 

For starters, hospitals are encouraged to participate in "Accommodating Accommodations", a hospital staff sheltering online exercise that will take place on December 15, 2011. This exercise, provided at NO COST to participants, will provide an opportunity for hospital management and staff that make up the Hospital Incident Command or similar team to work through a number of challenging scenarios and injects. The focus will be on caring for hospital staff and their families during an event that necessitates a hospital providing staff with shelter at or nearby the hospital.

 

"Accommodating Accommodations" is part of the new Caduceus Shield Exercise Initiative created to provide exercises for critical components of America's health system.

 

All Caduceus Shield exercises are aligned with various emergency management standards for hospital accreditation organizations such as The Joint Commission and Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care.

 

Please note: Caduceus Shield exercises are not webinars or training seminars. These are comprehensively designed, challenging formats following Homeland Security Exercise & Evaluation Program (HSEEP) guidelines with thought-provoking injects lasting 2-3 hours and which will provide participants with a basis to measure outcomes and formulate Incident Action and Improvement Plans.

 

 

Caduceus Shield exercises are created and produced by:

 

Disaster Resistant Communities Group LLC

Chris Floyd – 850-241-3565

6224 Wake Robin Ln., Tallahassee, FL 32309

www.drc-group.com

chrisfloyd@drc-group.com

 

and

 

The Stoneybrook Group LLC

Ric Skinner, GISP – 413-262-2561

12 Stoneybrook Dr., Sturbridge, MA 01566

www.healthgisguy.com

ric.skinner@healthgisguy.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Fwd: [START-ANNOUNCE] START Director LaFree to Moderate Discussion with Secretary Napolitano and Governor O'Malley

START Director LaFree to Moderate Discussion with Secretary Napolitano and
Governor O'Malley

On Tuesday, October 11, the University of Maryland is welcoming to campus
U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Governor
of the State of Maryland Martin O'Malley for a forum on Homeland Security in
a Post 9/11 World. START Director Gary LaFree will serve as moderator of
this hour-long discussion between two of the countries leading public
officials, which will focus on the nature of Federal-state partnerships in
homeland security efforts.

Specific topics to be discussed by Secretary Napolitano and Governor
O'Malley include:

   -Partnerships and Information Sharing

   -Countering Violent Extremism

   -Resilience

The forum is sponsored by START and the University of Maryland. It is free
and open to the public. No tickets are required.

Event details follow, and more information is available through the
University of Maryland website.

WHEN

Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011, 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

WHERE

Prince George's Room, Stamp Student Union, University of Maryland Campus
Drive, College Park, MD 20742

Parking: Next door to the student union in the Union Lane Garage Directions:
http://www.union.umd.edu/visitorInfo/directions.shtml .

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Fwd: jobs

Emergency Management Specialist

Barnabas Health - West Orange, NJ
preparedness exercises. Lead educator for decontamination, National
Incident Management and emergency... and techniques of emergency
preparedness. Current...
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DIVISION MANAGER-HEALTH AGENCY
County of San Luis Obispo - San Luis Obispo, CA
the local Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Agency, and the Public
Health Emergency Preparedness program... Emergency Preparedness and
Pre-Hospital Emergency...
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email, block, more...

Reg Disaster Preparedness Coor
WakeMed - Raleigh, NC
disaster response plans. Experience Requirements: At least three years
active experience with disaster... for disaster preparedness &
response in a health care...
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BioWatch Senior Public Health Specialist
University of Minnesota - Minneapolis-Saint Paul, MN
in public health, environmental health, public health... Public Health
Specialist will provide subject matter expertise on public health,
laboratory, preparedness...
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Research Assistant-Health Policy (term)
The RAND Corporation - Arlington, VA
health, occupational health, health insurance design and reform,
public health preparedness, and racial... public policy, or public
health. Experience: 0-2 years
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more...

Healthcare Analyst
Mitre Corporation - Baltimore, MD
knowledge, experience with public health care programs, local
emergency preparedness and response and public health improvement
experience. Travel Statement...
Mitre Corporation - 9 days ago

Director of Emergency Preparedness
County of Santa Clara - Santa Clara, CA
Emergency Services (OES) and the Emergency Operations Center (EOC).
The Director of Emergency Preparedness... Emergency Preparedness
Programs and Emergency... $99,226.40 - $127,052.64 a year
County of Santa Clara - 7 days ago - save job - block - email -
more...

HEALTH EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS EVALUATOR
Nevada Employee Action and Timekeeping System - Carson, CA
for: HEALTH EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS EVALUATOR... NV: View more jobs in
Minden, Nevada Emergency Preparedness jobs in Minden, Nevada Nevada
Employee... $44,411.76 - $66,001.68 a year
Las Vegas Review Journal - 15 days ago - save job - block - email -
more...

Emergency Preparedness Planner
Kaiser Permanente - San Francisco, CA
disaster preparedness and emergency response for... of disaster
preparedness and emergency response.- Develops and oversees
implementation of an Emergency...
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Emergency Preparedness Grant Project Director - new
Rochester Regional Healthcare Association - Rochester, NY
inter-hospital emergency preparedness plans for RRHA... hospitals
regarding NYS office of Health Emergency Preparedness (OHEP)
initiatives. Continue to advance...
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Emergency Preparedness Assistant Coordinator
Oconee Regional Medical Center - Milledgeville, GA
Assist the Emergency Preparedness Coordinator with... and maintain an
inventory and lists of all Emergency Preparedness assets, local and
regional. 3) Organize...
Oconee Regional Medical Center - 30+ days ago - save job - block -
email - more...

Emergency Preparedness & Respo
DPH - Georgia
candidates for our Emergency Preparedness and... the Section of
Emergency Preparedness and Response the Attorney for Emergency
Preparedness shall: Have a... $52,173 - $71,655 a year
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Disaster Management and Emergency Preparedness Onl...
Kaplan University - United States
Ph.D (or professional doctorate) in Emergency Management, Disaster
Preparedness, or closely related field... have experience in emergency
or disaster management...
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Director of Operations, Office of the Vice Provost and Dean...
Stanford University School of Medicine - Stanford, CA
Oversee the DoR emergency response plan. Work with... program for
their units including plans for emergency preparedness Human Resources
and Academic Staff...

BFMC (Greenfield)-Manager Security/Emergency Manag...
Baystate Health - Springfield, MA
emergency situations. Maintains staff education around Emergency
Management. Conducts drills as required and represents BFMC in
Emergency preparedness matters...
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Emergency Preparedness Management - Part Time Facu...
Montgomery College - Silver Spring, MD
Emergency Preparedness Management , is currently accepting
applications for possible openings as a part-time faculty member
teaching Emergency Preparedness...
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DomPrep Webinar: Resilience - 2001 to 2011, and Beyond!

 

 

Resilience - 2001 to 2011, and Beyond! On 12 September 2011, DomesticPreparedness.com hosted an Executive Briefing at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. DomPrep40 Advisors Kay Goss, Senior Associate for Emergency Management and Homeland Security at Booz Allen Hamilton, and Albert Romano, Senior Vice President of Homeland Security at Michael Baker Jr. Inc., led the discussion on Resilience - 2001 to 2011, and Beyond! The agenda for this important meeting was focused on a common definition of the term "resilience" among the various disciplines involved in disaster preparedness and evaluating resilience efforts and progress in the past 10 years, with nine presentations along with question and answer sessions. Attendance for this by-invitation-only event included representatives from various government agencies as well as other private and public officials. Discussions and presentations were made on the gaps uncovered in the survey followed by questions and comments from the audience. Download the full report, Resilience - 2001 to 2011, and Beyond! To listen to these informative presentations from this Executive Briefing, click on http://www.domesticpreparedness.com/Webinars/ Registration is Free with login. Registration is FREE with login. Click here if you forgot your password Presenters James Schwartz, Chief, Arlington County Fire Department James Schwartz has been with Arlington County Fire Department for 27 years and was appointed Chief in 2004, after serving as Chief of Operations and Director of Emergency Management. His Department was the lead agency for the response to the September 11 attack on the Pentagon, where he led the Unified Command for the incident. He chairs the International Association of Fire Chiefs Committee on Terrorism and Homeland Security and serves on the Advisory Council for the Interagency Threat Assessment Coordinating Group at the National Counter Terrorism Center. In 2009, he was appointed by the Secretary of Homeland Security to the Homeland Security Quadrennial Review Advisory Committee. Paula L. Scalingi, Ph.D, Executive Director, Bay Area Center for Regional Disaster Resilience and President, The Scalingi Group Paula L. Scalingi, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Bay Area Center for Regional Disaster Resilience and President of The Scalingi Group.  She also serves as Director, Center for Regional Disaster Resilience, Pacific Northwest Economic Region and is on the Board of The Infrastructure Security Partnership and principal integrator of TISP's 2011 Regional Disaster Resilience Guide.  For the past decade, she has worked with organizations across the nation to improve resilience and infrastructure security.  Previous positions include: Director, U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection; Director, Decision and Information Sciences Division and Infrastructure Assurance Center, Argonne National Laboratory; and Senior Strategic Affairs Advisor and Director of Public Information, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Joe Manous, Group Manager & Future Directions Team Leader, Institute for Water Resources, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Joe D. Manous, Jr., P.E., Ph.D., D.WRE, is a Group Manager and Future Directions Team Leader for the Institute for Water Resources, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He also serves on a part-time detail to the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works. As a civil/environmental engineer, his areas of focus are water resources and water security.  Before assuming his current position, he was an Academy Professor at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point. He is a retired Colonel from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and his past extracurricular activities include Chair, Committee on Professional Practice, Chair, Post-Hurricane Katrina Critical Infrastructure Guidance Task Force, and Chair, Paraprofessional Task Committee for the American Society of Civil Engineers. Brian Kamoie, Senior Director for Preparedness Policy, National Security Staff, The White House Brian Kamoie is Senior Director for Preparedness Policy on the White House National Security Staff. In this role, he leads the development of national policy related to all-hazards preparedness, individual and community resilience, domestic critical infrastructure protection and resilience, and preparedness grants. Previously, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response and Director of the Office of Policy, Strategic Planning & Communications at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where he led the development and implementation of key national policies, including the National Response Plan and National Incident Management System, the National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza, the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act, the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act, and a number of Homeland Security Presidential Directives. Joseph A. Barbera, M.D., Co-Director, Institute for Crisis, Disaster, and Risk Management, The George Washington University Joseph A. Barbera, M.D., is Co-Director of the George Washington University Institute for Crisis, Disaster, and Risk Management (ICDRM), Associate Professor of Engineering Management, and Clinical Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine. Through ICDRM, he has accomplished extensive research in emergency management, including an analysis of the Pentagon 9-11 response. Previously, he was Medical Director, Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, and Chair, The George Washington University Hospital Emergency Preparedness Committee. He has provided consultation to the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) Department of Health and Human Services, in the development of medical surge guidance, incident management, and mass casualty response initiatives. Christine G. Springer, Ph.D., Director, Executive Master of Science in Crisis & Emergency Management, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) Christine Gibbs Springer was appointed, in 2006, Director of the Executive Masters Degree in Emergency and Crisis Management at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and oversees the restructuring of the academic program – the only full executive masters in the country on this subject. She is involved in research on regional infrastructure resilience in Nevada, serves on the Nevada Citizen Corps Board of Directors, and serves on the Congressional Panel developing performance metrics for the Department of Homeland Security/Federal Emergency Management Agency (DHS/FEMA) grants. Last year, she served on a Congressional Panel to evaluate FEMA post-Katrina. Before her current position, she was Director of Intergovernmental and Community Relations for the third largest public utility in the country (Salt River Project in Arizona). Douglas Kinney, Reserve Officer, Emergency Plans, Diplomatic Security, U.S. Department of State Douglas Kinney, Reserve Officer, Emergency Plans, Diplomatic Security, U.S. Department of State, serves as an Emergency Plans officer for the whole risk spectrum, currently focusing on Personnel Recovery/Hostagetaking. He consults on the future of Crisis Management. Previously, he was a Program Manager with Innovative Technology Application (ITA); chaired the Interagency Group on NATO Civil Emergency Planning; and served as a Foreign Service Officer of the United States. He volunteers with Disaster Services of the Red Cross; Friendship Fire Association Rehab Squad of District of Columbia Fire and Emergency Medical Services; and Shenandoah Mountain Rescue Group. 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Fwd: Briefly Noted - September 2011

Logistic support system helps in supply management After the first cases of cholera were detected in Haiti, the Dominican Republic's Ministry of Health advocated that having access to the necessary supplies to treat the disease was crucial for the rapid response to cases in its territory. To that end, the Ministry launched a project for strengthening logistic capacity and optimizing supply management, using LSS/SUMA as a model. As a first step, a strategic warehouse was established to serve the demand for cholera treatment supplies, and for emergencies and disasters. A network of regional warehouses was then created so that the supplies could be mobilized quickly to where they were required, and finally, it was decided that logistics capacity in the management of Ministry of Health supplies should be improved. This network of warehouses offers accurate information on the distribution of supplies at the national level, deliveries to health centers, immediate needs for decision-making, and assigning resources to meet the demands. LSS/SUMA has also helped in using resources properly, transparency in supply management, and control in drug rotation, which avoids waste due to expiration dates. Write to venegasj@paho.org for additional information. Response Activities Continue in The Bahamas PAHO/WHO's Regional Response Team was mobilized to The Bahamas, after the passage of Hurricane Irene, to support the Ministry of Health in damage assessment, environmental health, water and sanitation, epidemiology, vector control, evaluation of hospitals, and coordination. An epidemiologist was deployed to help in the design and multisectoral coordination of a dengue campaign, and to strengthen the Ministry's program of epidemiological surveillance. Two specialists—in dengue and vector control—are also helping in this activity. Waste collection is a particularly important challenge for health authorities because the country is facing a dengue outbreak. At least 11 of the 16 health facilities in the islands of Abaco, Acklins & Crooked, Cat, Long, and New Providence suffered damage that included flooding, damage to ceilings, equipment and electric generators, contamination of wells, and failures in the water and electric supply systems. The main hospital in The Bahamas, located in Nassau, was also affected. Write to vanalphe@paho.org for additional information on the response in The Bahamas.	Riobamba's Hospital Administrates its Own Disaster Risk The Riobamba General Provincial and Teaching Hospital in Riobamba, Ecuador, has undertaken several activities to improve its performance in case of emergencies and disasters. The first was the evaluation of its hospital safety index. Based on the results, it developed action plans for the short-, medium- and long-term. The implementation of these plans has been a fundamental stepping stone in the creation of a preparedness culture for disaster response. This is done through the hospital's emergency operations committee, in coordination with provincial and national entities from the Ministry of Health. Short-term plans had PAHO/WHO support until October 2010. The planning improved the hospital's organization and increased health personnel's capacities in the subject. Maintenance personnel was also included to solve issues related to electricity, water supply, internal and external communications, security of essential equipment, among others. Medium- and long-term plans are still being implemented with human and economic resources from the hospital and the Ministry of Health. Important financial investments have been made for the structure, acquisition of supplies, and rehabilitation of services. On the other hand, problems have been solved, such as having an uninterrupted water supply, with a 72-hour reserve (it was only 8 hours previously). Write to alvaradop@ecu.ops-oms.org for more information. The Safe Hospitals initiative promoted by PAHO/WHO and its strategic partners has shifted to the academic level, where awareness is raised on the need to make safer health facilities. Agreements made with the University of San Carlos in Guatemala and the Don Bosco University in El Salvador are good examples of this achievement. Thanks to these alliances, students at engineering and architecture faculties at the universities support in the training of personnel and in evaluating the safety of health facilities, which has a multiplying effect when the time comes to design and build new health facilities in the Region. PAHO/WHO recognizes and values the important role played by theses students in disaster risk reduction, mitigation and disaster preparedness in communities, and so it joins in the global celebration of the International Day for Disaster Reduction, which this year is focused on young people.
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