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Wednesday, October 22, 2008

7:30 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast

8:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. Region-wide Disaster Preparedness
Dale ThompsonDale Thompson, CSP, threat assessment manager for Kaiser Permanente.
Get an in-depth view of how Kaiser Permanente’s internal support processes were used to assist health care facilities affected by the San Diego County wildfires. One standout: KP’s electronic chart records were a boon to continuity of care during the emergency. Dale Thompson shares pointers you  can incorporate into your emergency operations plans regardless of your facility’s size.

Take-home tools: Hazard vulnerability assessment tool and a checklist of region-wide readiness best practices.

9:15 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Refreshment Break

9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Performance Measures for the 7 Core EC Elements
George RivasGeorge Rivas, vice president of consultation services, TSIG Consulting, Inc.
EC performance data always pleases surveyors. George Rivas details the data you should collect, how to make sense of it and how to obtain benchmarking data to compare your efforts against your peers so you can dazzle your next surveyor – and assess your strengths and weaknesses before you even get to that point!

10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Review of EC Summit “Pre-test” Exercise
Take a second look at those photos we looked at to kick off the Summit, using the knowledge you gleaned at over the last 2 days to spot the Life Safety snafus you may have missed. George Rivas returns to point out what was wrong (and what was right) about Monday’s photos.

11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Last Call Q & A
Our expert speakers take the stage once more to answer your lingering questions. Fire away!

11:30 a.m. Adjourn

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