Disaster Resilience: Supporting Vulnerable Populations Across the Healthcare Continuum: A Two-Part Workshop and Tabletop Exercise

Disaster Resilience: Supporting Vulnerable Populations Across the Healthcare Continuum: A Two-Part Workshop and Tabletop Exercise 

This two-part workshop is being prepared for all agencies that provide care/support to vulnerable populations on a day to day basis and during disasters. Specific agencies that would benefit from these sessions include: emergency support function (ESF) 8, emergency planners, emergency managers, hospitals, clinics, dialysis, religious groups, long term and elder care, agencies that support disabled populations as defined by the ADA, and a variety of community support and volunteer organizations.

Please bring up to 3 people from your organization, this registration is for the first day of the training on Wednesday, August 22. From 9 am – 4:30pm at the American Red Cross building – 1115 Easterwood Drive, Tallahassee. Registration begins at 8:30a.m.  Lunch will be provided. Please see the overview of part one. Registration instructions for day two, which will be held September 25, will be provided at a later date. Participation in both days will fulfill a part of your CMS exercise compliance.  

Please register at the following website: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/vp_1

 

Part One Course Description:

The focus of the 2016 CMS Emergency Preparedness regulations was to enhance continuity and quality patient care during a disaster. To address the needs of all health care patients, especially the vulnerable populations, community organizations and health care providers must form collaborative partnerships. These alliances increase the ability to identify the many at risk populations within the community, and their health care needs. Vulnerable populations are defined as:

 

“Any individual, group, or community whose circumstances create barriers to obtaining or understanding information, or the ability to react as the general population. Circumstances that may create barriers include, but are not limited to age; physical, mental, emotional, or cognitive status; culture; ethnicity; religion; language; citizenship; geography; or socioeconomic status.” (National Health Institute)

 

This first part of the workshop, presented by RBC Limited, will

– Define and identify vulnerable populations

– Discuss cognitive biases that may impact planning for such groups

– Differentiate needs pre-event, during the event, and post event.

  The second part of the workshop held on a different day will be a tabletop exercise concentrating on the care and movement of vulnerable populations across the health care continuum during a disaster.  Registration instructions for day two will be provided at a later date.

Agenda Day One9:00- 12:00 noon (break at 10:45am)

A. Discussion and Definition of Developmentally Disabled Populations as defined by the ADA. Examples of diagnoses and health care needs during the three phases of an event such as:

• Autism

• Cerebral Palsy

• Behavior disorders

• Brain injury

• Down syndrome

• Intellectual disability   

      B. Discussion of Special Needs Functional Model for Disaster Planning

      12:00-1:00 PM Lunch

 

1:00 PM-2:30 C. Unique Populations/ Event Specific

• Drug users/ Opioid Crisis

• Forensic Population

• Homeless

• Actively Dying

2:30-2:45 Break

2:45- 4:30 Resources from community-based providers

• Shelters

• Cognitive Biases

• Questions and Answers Disaster Resilience: Moving Vulnerable Populations Across The Healthcare Continuum
  A Two Part Workshop

  Part One Course Description:
  The focus of the 2016 CMS Emergency Preparedness regulations was to enhance continuity and quality patient care during a disaster. To address the needs of all health care patients, especially the vulnerable populations, community organizations and health care providers must form collaborative partnerships. These alliances increase the ability to identify the many at risk populations within the community, and their health care needs. Vulnerable populations are defined as: “Any individual, group, or community whose circumstances create barriers to obtaining or understanding information, or the ability to react as the general population. Circumstances that may create barriers include, but are not limited to age; physical, mental, emotional, or cognitive status; culture; ethnicity; religion; language; citizenship; geography; or socioeconomic status.” (National Health Institute)
  This first part of the workshop, presented by RBC Limited, will:
  – Define and identify vulnerable populations
  – Discuss cognitive biases that may impact planning for such groups
  – Differentiate needs pre-event, during the event, and post event.

  The second part of the workshop, held on a different day will be a tabletop exercise
  concentrating on the movement of vulnerable populations across the health care continuum.

  RBC Limited, an award winning company, has been consulting to health care organizations since
  1991 in all areas of strategic planning, regulatory compliance and disaster preparedness.
  Barbara Citarella, President of RBC Limited, serves as a subject matter expert to ASPR TRACIE and has participated in the development of multiple documents for FEMA, DHS and the CDC.

  Agenda Day One

  9:00- 12:00 noon (break at 10:45am)

  – A. Discussion and Definition of Developmentally Disabled Populations as defined by the ADA.
  Examples of diagnoses and health care needs during the three phases of an event such as
  Autism
  Cerebral Palsy
  Behavior disorders
  Brain injury
  Down syndrome
  Intellectual disability.
  B. Discussion of Special Needs Functional Model for Disaster Planning

12:00-1:00 PM Lunch-Provided

1:00 PM-2:30 C. Unique Populations/ Event Specific
Drug users/ Opioid Crisis
Forensic Population
Homeless
Actively Dying

2:30-2:45 Break
2:45- 4:30 Resources from community based providers
Shelters
Cognitive Biases
Q&A

Disaster Resilience: Moving Vulnerable Populations Across The Healthcare Continuum
A Two Part Workshop