Webinar On-Demand: 
Evacuating Three Hospitals During Hurricane Matthew

Date/Time: Wednesday, September 27, 2017, 1 PM ET / 10 AM PT
Speaker: Leonard Deonarine, Director of Business Continuity and Emergency Preparedness for Tenet Healthcare 


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We have the opportunity to learn from a seasoned veteran about hospital evacuations during a hurricane. 

Leonard Deonarine, the Director of Business Continuity and Emergency Preparedness for Tenet Healthcare worked with his team and local officials through three hospital evacuations last year during Hurricane Matthew and shares his experiences with you in this important webinar. In addition, Leonard deployed to help with Hurricane Harvey and will share some best practices from his experience there as well.

Leonard will cover:
  • Planning for a hospital evacuation before an event 
  • Determining a full or partial evacuation, what is the criteria? 
  • What supplies to consider and how to ensure the supplies reach their destination
  • How to work with first responders outside the hospital 
  • How to work with your staff before, during and after an incident to keep them safe 
  • The nuts and bolts of shutting down and then re-opening a facility
We expect this webinar to come close to capacity and invite you to register early. This is a rare opportunity to talk with one of the top experts in emergency management in the U.S. Please register to the right and bring your questions, we’ll have a robust Q&A. 

Speaker: J. Robert "Bob" McKee, D.Sc.(c), MBA, Boston University Healthcare Emergency Management Program

Bob McKee, has worked many hurricanes over his 30 year career in emergency preparedness.  He covered the nuts and bolts of patient evacuation in the context of 2017's catastrophic storms and how we can improve best practices going forward. 

Bob covered:

  • Planning for a hospital evacuation before an event 
  • Determining a full or partial evacuation, what is the criteria? 
  • What supplies to consider and how to ensure the supplies reach their destination
  • How to work with first responders outside the hospital 
  • How to work with your staff before, during and after an incident to keep them safe 
  • The nuts and bolts of shutting down and then re-opening a facility

J. Robert "Bob" McKee:  Bob has over 30 years of experience in Fire/EMS, Emergency Management, Disaster Preparedness and Crisis Planning. He has worked at the local, state, federal and international government levels in emergency response and crisis management.

He was Agency Chief for Texas Task Force One Urban Search and Rescue, and the ESF-9 Director of the State of Texas.  In addition, responding to State and Federal incidents for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), serving on the DHS/FEMA Incident Management Team. He served as a Division Director at Texas A&M University overseeing the development and training of Disaster City for worldwide participants. The Agency trained in excess of 220,000 students a year, the program was successful in providing national and international partnerships.

Bob served as Fire Chief and Paramedic for Mad River Fire Department in Ohio. He has been deployed on numerous State and Federal disaster response teams including the World Trade Center on 9/11, Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster, Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Ike, and the Haiti Earthquake Response to highlight just a few.