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Keeping Our Healthcare Organizations Safe: Best Practices in Emergency Preparedness
Dude Solutions and Lee Ann Jarousse, Senior Editor, Custom Publications, Hospitals & Health Networks Magazine
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In recent years, healthcare organizations have placed greater emphasis on safety response plans as a necessary, practical tool. While newsworthy disasters remain rare, emergency preparedness is still a vital part of planning for most acute care providers. You also have to consider how safety planning and emergency preparedness tie into both compliance and reimbursement as it is monitored closely by CMS and its accrediting agencies. In fact, this is more relevant than ever with CMS recently finalizing a new rule to bolster emergency preparedness of certain facilities participating in Medicare and Medicaid.
The variety of situations that could potentially arise means that healthcare institutions need plans that are proactive, actionable, and, most importantly, easily communicated.
Join us for this webinar to hear Paul Harris of Lake Regional Health System discuss how they have made great strides in improving their safety planning and emergency preparedness. Topics that will be discussed include:
- Challenges they faced with previous processes
- Improvements they made to take their safety plans to the next level
- Best practices to handle emergency situations
- How to utilize mobile technology to keep everyone prepared, safe and ready
- How you can demonstrate “duty of care”
Speakers
Paul Harris, R.N.
Emergency Preparedness Coordinator, Lake Regional Health System
Moderator
Suzanna Hoppszallern
Senior Editor, Data and Research - Hospitals & Health Networks Magazine
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