VIRTUAL ACTIVE INTRUDER/SHOOTER TABLETOP EXERCISE
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Workshop Overview:
In today's society, we are faced with the real threat of having an active intruder threatening lives within our healthcare facilities. Learn from our subject matter experts how to plan, prepare, respond, and recover from an active intruder/ shooter.
This program has been approved for Continuing Education for 2 total participant hours by NAB/NCERS—Approval # 20241017-2-A97499-DL. CEUs are approved for Licensed Long Term Care Administrators through the National Continuing Education Review Service (NCERS) of the National Association of Long Term Care Administrator Boards (NAB).
Workshop Objectives:
Define Active Intruders/Shooters
Describe characteristics of an Active Intruder and Active Intruder incidents
Describe actions to take to prevent and prepare for potential Active Intruder incidents
Describe actions to take when confronted with an Active Intruder
Describe actions to take with the responding law enforcement officials
Identify indicators of violence
Review Healthcare facility considerations
Recommended Participants: All Health Care Workers
Workshop Length: 2.0 CE Hours
Cost: FREE
Blizzard/Polar Vortex Preparedness and Response Tabletop Exercise
Workshop Overview:
This workshop provides information and guidance on how Blizzard/Polar Vortex incident may affect your healthcare organization's patients/residents, staff, and vendors. Learn how to recognize Blizzard/ Polar Vortex hazards, understand severe weather warning systems, and know how to plan, prepare, respond, and recover from a severe weather incident.
Workshop Objectives:
Identify NOAA and other Blizzard/ Polar Vortex Warning Systems
Understand the impact of a Blizzard/ Polar Vortex incident can have on your healthcare organization's patients/residents, staff, and other occupants
Review recommended Standard Operating Procedures for a Blizzard/ Polar Vortex incident
Know how to plan, prepare, respond, and recover from Blizzard/ Polar Vortex incidents
Recommended Participants:
Healthcare Provider Emergency Planning and Response Teams
Cost: FREE
CHUG Cyber Security Full-Scale Exercise
Health Care Providers have repeatedly been the target of malicious ransomware attacks as well as programs that lurk in EMR systems, skimming patient information sometimes for years without going detected.
CMS “encourages providers to consider cyber-security as an element in the development of their emergency plans, risk assessments and annual training exercises.” This Full Scale Exercise focuses on the organization's ability to coordinate and implement prevention, preparedness, response and recovery plans and capabilities pertaining to a significant cyber incident or a series of incidents.
THIS FULL-SCALE EXERCISE IS EXCLUSIVELY FOR MEMBERS
Thursday, August 3rd, 2023
10:00 AM - 2 PM Central
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Blizzard/Polar Vortex Preparedness and Response
Workshop Overview:
This workshop provides information and guidance on how Blizzard/Polar Vortex incident may affect your healthcare organization's patients/residents, staff, and vendors. Learn how to recognize Blizzard/ Polar Vortex hazards, understand severe weather warning systems, and know how to plan, prepare, respond, and recover from a severe weather incident.
Workshop Objectives:
Identify NOAA and other Blizzard/ Polar Vortex Warning Systems
Understand the impact of a Blizzard/ Polar Vortex incident can have on your healthcare organization's patients/residents, staff, and other occupants
Review recommended Standard Operating Procedures for a Blizzard/ Polar Vortex incident
Know how to plan, prepare, respond, and recover from Blizzard/ Polar Vortex incidents
Recommended Participants:
Healthcare Provider Emergency Planning and Response Teams
Cost: FREE
Healthcare and Workplace Violence
Workshop Overview:
Approximately 75% of the nearly 25,000 Workplace Assaults reported occurring in healthcare or social-service settings. This workshop will prepare your staff to identify potential workplace violence threats, provide guidance to safely manage a workplace violence incident, and assist in recovery from violence in the workplace.
Workshop Objectives:
Review workplace violence statistics and incidents
Identify conditions and situations in the workplace that may precede workplace violence
Understand how to recognize behaviors and early signs of potential acts of violence
Identify the signs of an escalating threat of workplace violence
Learn how to respond appropriately and to decrease the threat of escalating
Identify signs and symptoms of staff members experiencing traumatic stress from acts of violence
Identify strategies to help staff members experiencing post-traumatic stress
Recommended Participants:
Healthcare Administrators, Emergency Operations Program Planning Teams and All Health Care Personnel
Cost: $75 per individual
Fall Community Full Scale Exercise- Healthcare Acquired Infections (HAI)
Workshop Overview:
A full-scale exercise is defined and accepted as any operations-based exercise that assesses a facility’s functional capabilities by simulating a response to an emergency that would impact the facility’s operations and its given community. The purpose of the FSE is to perform the operational coordination, communication, infection control/ prevention and mass care tasks for Healthcare Organizations during a Healthcare Acquired Infections (HAI) scenario.
Workshop Objectives:
Identify key planning elements including plans, policies, and procedures during the simulated incident.
Discuss and document an initial assessment of multiple incidents and discuss the appropriate actions and tasks to reduce or eliminate loss of life and property.
Identify key National Incident Management System roles and responsibilities and their functions during the simulated incident, and more.
Recommended Participants:
Nursing Home Administrators, Director of Nursing, Facility Managers, Emergency Response or Safety Team Members, Nurses and Social Workers and all other staff required to simulate a Healthcare Acquired Infections (HAI) Response.
Cost: Complimentary
Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) Templates
Workshop Overview:
Based on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) emergency preparedness regulatory updates; CHUG has completely revamped the Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) templates. Consisting of over 350 documents and forms it can be challenging for a new or existing user to navigate. Learn how the EOP is organized and how the components complement each other for a cohesive EOP for your organization. The purpose of this workshop is to provide guidance on the structure of the plan, its components and how to implement for your organization
Workshop Objectives:
Understand the rationale behind the structure and components of the plan
Know how to relate Plans, Policies, Procedures and Forms to regulatory compliance.
Understand how to navigate through the plan
Know how to customize, implement, and execute the plan
Recommended Participants:
Healthcare Administrators, Emergency Operations Program Planning Teams and All Health Care Personnel
Cost: FREE
Fire Preparedness: Keep Your Business, Employees, and Residents Safe
Workshop Overview:
The key to safety and survival during a fire at home, on vacation, and in the workplace is to have a thorough understanding of fire behavior, the dangers of fire, when and how to evacuate and when to help others. TV and the movies have misrepresented the dangers of fires and survival. This workshop provides an understanding of fire behavior, how to react and respond to a fire in a healthcare facility and fire prevention practices and principles for home and work.
Workshop Objectives:
Review nursing home fire incidents and statistics
Identify the primary sources of fires in nursing homes
Gain knowledge of the many life safety hazards of fire.
Gain a basic understanding of fire behavior.
Understand when to leave, rescue others or attempt to extinguish a fire.
Gain knowledge of fire prevention and survival skills
Recommended Participants:
Healthcare Administrators, Emergency Operations Program Planning Teams and All Health Care Personnel
Cost: $150 per organization (contact CHUG with individual attendee information)
Fall Community Table Top Exercise- Healthcare Acquired Infections (HAI)
Workshop Overview:
This Table-Top Exercise (TTX) includes a group discussion led by a facilitator, using a narrated, clinically-relevant emergency scenario, and a set of problem statements, directed messages, or prepared questions designed to challenge an emergency plan. The purpose of the TTX is to discuss the operational coordination, communication, infection control/ prevention and mass care tasks for Healthcare Organizations during a Healthcare Acquired Infections (HAI) scenario.
Workshop Objectives:
Identify key planning elements for including plans, policies, and procedures
Discuss and document an initial assessment of multiple incidents and discuss the appropriate actions and tasks to reduce or eliminate loss of life and property
Identify key National Incident Management System roles and responsibilities and their functions, and more!
Recommended Participants:
All Department Heads to include but not be limited to: Nursing Home Administrators, Director of Nursing, Facility Managers, Emergency or Safety Planning Team Members, Health Care Workers, Social Workers, Environmental Services, Dietary, etc.
Cost: Complimentary
Active Intruder/Shooter Training
Workshop Overview:
The incident of an active intruder/shooter appears to be a daily occurrence somewhere worldwide. The number of events affecting healthcare organizations has increased.
Knowing how to respond is critical to saving lives. Our subject matter experts will provide education on how to plan, prepare, respond, and recover from an active intruder/shooter or violent event.
Workshop Objectives:
Define Active Intruders/Shooters
Describe characteristics of an Active Intruder and Active Intruder incidents
Describe actions to take to prevent and prepare for potential Active Intruder incidents
Describe actions to take when confronted with an Active Intruder
Describe actions to take with the responding law enforcement official
Identify indicators of violence
Review Healthcare facility considerations
Recommended Participants:
Healthcare Administrators, Emergency Operations Program Planning Teams, All Health Care Workers
What is a COOP?
Workshop Overview:
COOP is the abbreviation for Continuity Of Operations Plan. This workshop is designed to provide the components, rationale for developing, plan and regulatory requirements, and steps to create a COOP. In addition, identify how to implement, train, and exercise your COOP.
Workshop Objectives:
Provide the rationale for a COOP plan,
Understand recommended components,
Review how to assess your COOP plan requirements,
Learn how to develop and implement your COOP Plan
Identify how to train and exercise your COOP Plan.
Recommended Participants:
Healthcare Provider Emergency Planning and Response Teams
Cost: $75 per individual or $150 per organization (contact CHUG for group payment + attendee information)
Patient Movement and Mobility Issues
Workshop Overview:
This workshop is designed to provide the participant with the knowledge to safely and effectively move and transport patients during an evacuation. Virtual presentations will cover horizontal and vertical movement of patients utilizing various techniques and equipment focusing on insuring that the individual's physical and medical needs and requirements are met throughout the evacuation process.
Purpose:
Workshop Objectives:
Review important health and safety issues for moving patients
Discuss patient mobility issues and how to communicate them to staff
Provide an overview of rescue/ evacuation equipment
Demonstrate safe and effective utilization of rescue/ evacuation equipment
Recommended Participants:
Healthcare Administrators, Emergency Operations Program Planning Teams and All Health Care Personnel
Cost: FREE
Hazard Vulnerability Assessment
Workshop Overview:
One of the key components in determining an organization's probability and risk for emergencies and disasters is to conduct an annual Hazard Vulnerability Assessment (HVA). The HVA is a vital component of the Organizations' Emergency Preparedness Program and helps establish priorities for creating, educating, testing, evaluating, and revising your emergency operations plan. This workshop provides the organization with information and value of conducting an annual HVA, a hands-on experience to create their HVA and tools to conduct future HVA with their emergency planning team.
Workshop Objectives:
Review the importance and purpose of conducting an annual HVA.
Understand the regulatory compliance justification for conducting an annual HVA
Identify the types of risks and hazards faced by healthcare facilities.
Develop a consensus methodology to work through and score the HVA for your facility.
Complete your annual facility specific HVA
Recommended Participants:
Healthcare Administrators and Emergency Operations Program Planning Teams
Cost: $150 per organization (contact CHUG with individual attendee information)
Who, What, and How of an Incident Action Plan
Workshop Overview:
An important component of Incident Command is the development, implementation, and review of a formal Incident Action Plan (IAP). This workshop is designed to review the rationale for developing the IAP, components of an IAP. What Incident Command Function is responsible for the development and sharing of the IAP and the NIMS compliant forms required.
Workshop Objectives:
Review the rationale for developing the IAP
Understand the components of an IAP
Identify key functions responsible to develop and share the IAP
Review the required IAP forms
Recommended Participants:
Healthcare Provider Emergency Planning and Response Teams
Cost: FREE
Communication is Essential During Any Incident. Learn How to Develop an Effective Communication Plan
Workshop Overview:
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid System (CMS) requires a robust and comprehensive Internal and External Communication Plan. This workshop is designed to educate participants on the CMS Communication Regulations and their related E-Tags. In addition, the workshop will cover the 3 basic types of communication: notification systems, internal and external communication systems and potential back-up modes for each system.
Workshop Objectives:
Understand CMS Communication Plan requirements.
Review the types of communication systems and back up modes.
Review development and maintenance of the Communication Plan
Preview CHUG Communication Plan Worksheet
Recommended Participants:
Healthcare Administrators and Emergency Operations Program Planning Teams
Cost: FREE
Infection Control Planning, Guidelines, and Training for Healthcare Professionals
Workshop Overview:
Learn the basic principles of Infection control prevention, how to mitigate, and respond to infections. Challenge your healthcare team to break the chain of infection and utilize best practices in infection control. This course will empower your healthcare team to identify healthcare acquired infections (HAI), decrease the risk, and the exposure of HAI's.
Workshop Objectives:
Gain an understanding of germs and theory behind infection control
Learn preventive methods of infection control
Provide knowledge, tools, and resources for infection control and prevention
Identify ways to keep your workplace, family, and community safe from infectious disease outbreaks
Recommended Participants:
Healthcare Administrators, Emergency Operations Program Planning Teams and All Health Care Personnel
Cost: $75 per organization Continuing Education Credits for Nursing, Social Work, Nursing Home Administrators.
Collaborative Healthcare Urgency Group, CHUG Emergency Operations Plan Forms
Workshop Overview:
The newly revised CHUG Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) (templates) has a very comprehensive Forms Library that provides all the essential forms to support the EOP’s Plans, Policies and Procedures. Many of the forms assist with CMS Compliance as well. This workshop provides guidance on how to navigate and use the Forms Library as well as review of many of the critical and essential forms.
Workshop Objectives:
Understand how to navigate and use the EOP templates.
Review critical and essential forms.
Understand how forms support the EOP and assist with CMS Compliance
Recommended Participants:
Healthcare Administrators and Emergency Operations Program Planning Teams
Cost: FREE
Critical Incident Stress
Workshop Overview:
COVID-19 has demonstrated the profound effects it has placed on healthcare. It has played havoc on patients, residents, staff, and families. In addition, it has stressed employers, society, and caused an increase in behavioral/mental health issues.
Workshop Objectives:
Identify the physical, spiritual, emotional, and behavioral consequences of individuals experiencing a “Critical Incident” and/or long-term exposure to chronic stress
Define the types of critical stress, the warning signs and symptoms, diagnosis, and Critical Incident Stress Management Policies/Procedures
Identify intervention strategies as well as comprehensive recovery resources to help those affected
Recommended Participants:
Healthcare Provider Emergency Planning and Response Teams
Cost: $75
Identifying and Managing Risk for Emergency Preparedness for Healthcare Facilities
Workshop Overview:
This workshop is designed to provide the participant with an overview of the profound impact of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) regulations and deficiencies have on Healthcare Organizations. The workshop will cover Major Trends, Critical Labor Shortages, the Impact of Legislation and Regulations, Deficiencies, Penalties, Related Costs, and most importantly how your agency could resolve the gaps.
Workshop Objectives:
To gain an understanding of how legislation and CMS regulations negatively impact Healthcare Organizations.
To identify how penalties and related costs for compliance affect profitability.
To learn how your organization can resolve gaps.
Recommended Participants:
Healthcare Administrators, Emergency Operations Program Planning Teams and All Health Care Personnel
Cost: FREE