Webinar On-Demand:
The Nuts & Bolts of CMS Emergency Preparedness
Speaker: J. Robert "Bob" McKee, MBA, D.Sc.(c)
There is a flurry of activity around the CMS Emergency Preparedness guidelines when it comes to communication preparedness. We're only three months away from the November deadline and we all now know that an overhead paging system and a phone tree just won't cut it any more.
Luckily, we have Professor Bob McKee, from Boston University's Healthcare Emergency Management program to sort out the details. He gave actionable information on:
- Assessing your communication needs
- Best practices for creating a response team
- How to interact with responders outside the hospital including state, county, and local government
- How to communicate with the greater hospital community
- Convincing the hospital board on why they need to invest in a strong communication platform
- The "how-tos" for resource planning such as making sure you have enough food, water, and medical supplies for an incident
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 16th, 2 pm ET / 11 am PT
Speaker: J. Robert "Bob" McKee, MBA, D.Sc.(c)
There is a flurry of activity around the CMS Emergency Preparedness guidelines when it comes to communication preparedness. We're only three months away from the November deadline and we all now know that an overhead paging system and a phone tree just won't cut it any more.
Luckily, we have Professor Bob McKee, from Boston University's Healthcare Emergency Management program to sort out the details.
Download the webinar on-demand:
Professor Bob McKee will give actionable information on:
- Assessing your communication needs
- Best practices for creating a response team
- How to interact with responders outside the hospital including state, county, and local government
- How to communicate with the greater hospital community
- Convincing the hospital board on why they need to invest in a strong communication platform
- The "how-tos" for resource planning such as making sure you have enough food, water, and medical supplies for an incident
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.