EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS COORDINATING COUNCIL May 17, 2018
2 Presentations Developing and Testing Utility Disruption Plans James Montgomery, Director of Emergency Management, St. Luke s Cornwall Hospital Responding to the 2017-2018 Influenza Season How Yale New Haven Hospital Managed Patient Surge, April Alfano, Program Manager Emergency Preparedness Program, Yale New Haven Health System Findings from the NYC After Action Conference, Syra Madad, Director, System-wide Special Pathogens Program, New York City Health + Hospitals Development of a NYC Plan for the Detonation of an Improvised Nuclear Device City-wide Planning Process -- Eliot Calhoun, Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosives (CBRNE) Planner, NYC Emergency Management Health and Medical Response Planning Mark Maiello, Radiological Projects Planning Manager, Office of Emergency Preparedness and Response, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
DISCUSSIONS & UPDATES
Coastal Storm Preparedness
5 Workgroup 1: Improve Health Facility Data & Compliance (Leads: DOHMH & SDOH) 99% compliance!! Updating analysis of data for planning purposes Basing on active Primary and Network arrangements Analyzing remaining receiving capacity reported for Primary arrangements Reviewing SiP requests Improvement planning for 2019 ongoing
6 DOHMH SurgeEx: Findings and Follow Up Evacuating hospital initial census of 6,035 Discharges by EndEx: 30% of initial census Accepted to receiving hospitals by EndEx: 50% of initial census Remaining in evacuating hospitals by EndEx: 20% of initial census Facilitated discussion themes Challenges with bed categories, including consideration of ED Need for better information about transportation resources Coordination of existing send/receive arrangements Planning for HMExec discussion mid-june
7 Workgroup 2: Increase Nursing Home Receiving Capacity (Lead: NYCEM) Increase nursing home facility receiving capacity through targeted technical assistance to out-of-zone providers. The workgroup has identified 10 pilot facilities to seek participation in the first year of the project. Site Visits to targeted facilities have begun One 1 st site visit completed Facility specific plan documents are being drafted One 1 st site visit scheduled for next week
8 Workgroup 3: Increase Hospital Receiving Capacity (Lead: GNYHA) Increase hospital receiving capacity to accept patients from evacuating hospitals as well as community members that cannot be accommodated at Special Medical Needs Shelters (SMNS). Working to educate ALL out of zone hospitals on possibility that they may receive medically vulnerable community members 1. Explanatory memo was sent out earlier this week 2. Coastal Storm Operations Webinar Please join us next Wednesday, May 23 rd 10am to 12pm Participate as a team! Alternate ambulance destination discussion occurring among DOH, NYCEM, FDNY, REMSCO and GNYHA.
9 Workgroup 3 Products Comprehensive memo sent out Tuesday, 5/15 Webinar being held next Tuesday, 5/23 from 10am to 12pm
10 Mass Casualty Response Planning Training Course: Principles and Application of Mass Casualty Triage for Hospital-based and Emergency Clinicians Collaboration with Center for Disaster Medicine at New York Medical College Plan to pilot the course at four sites in coming months 8 hour course, combination of classroom learning and hands-on triage exercises Developing regional guidance for unidentified patient naming convention Sent draft to a variety of stakeholders for feedback FDNY Dispatch Center Tours ongoing MCI Response Planning Toolkit for Hospitals under development
11 Sit Stat 2.0 Implementation Signed participation agreements for 28 hospitals Continuing to support facilities and systems with dedicated calls and demos Work continuing with FDNY to move MCI notifications into Sit Stat 2.0 system Next Advisory Council meeting is 5/30 Will explain and launch Sit Stat 1.0 replacement process stop gap measure to collect data as hospitals and health systems are onboarding
12 Summary: May 9-10 Cyber Tactical Simulation 14 hospitals participated; brought multi-disciplinary teams Didactic portion followed by series of four fast-moving cyber scenarios designed to test existing facility/system cyber plans Program workbook enabled teams to capture key points for improvement which can guide follow up planning efforts GNYHA planning series of follow up webinars and programs on key issues raised by participants
13 New Information & Resources DHS Cyber Information Cybercrime and the Darknet: Effects on Cybersecurity Practices Cybercrime and the Darknet: The Malware Market Social Media Bots Overview ASPR Tracie Fact Sheet: EMTALA and Disasters Acurity supply chain resources https://members.acurity.com/2018/04/tss-emergencypreparedness/ (accessible to Acurity members) Supply chain checklist, key contacts, and important supplies categorized by type of emergency
14 Agency Updates NYS Department of Health NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene NYC Emergency Management
15 2018 EPCC Dates Tuesday, June 19 Tuesday, July 17 th Thursday, August 16 th Tuesday, September 25 th Tuesday, October 16 th Thursday, November 15 th Tuesday, December 11 th **All meetings will be held from 1:30-4:00pm