AUDIOCONFERENCE ON TAPE OR CD
Sponsored by Credentialing Resource Center
presented on May 1, 2007
In a disaster, would your medical staff be prepared?
If a natural or man-made disaster occurs in your geographic area, would your facility be prepared to handle the influx of volunteer practitioners who arrive on the scene in the aftermath?
In 2006, The Joint Commission added new standards for credentialing volunteer healthcare professionals during a state of emergency. Organizations that intend to grant privileges to volunteer practitioners in the event of a state of emergency must be prepared to make changes to the medical staff bylaws to demonstrate compliance.
Listen to this audioconference Privileging volunteers during a disaster: Meeting Joint Commission and Emergency Management Assistance Compact Standards. During this intermediate-level program, our experts explain how acute care facilities can respond to disasters with privileging for volunteer physicians and ensure that everyones in Joint Commission compliance.
At the end of this audioconference, participants will be able to
- Identify The Joint Commission disaster privileging standards (2006)
- Explain the importance of the “Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act” and its effect on physician disaster privileging.
- Define the need for disaster blanket immunity to facilitate disaster response.
AGENDA
- The Joint Commission disaster privileging criteria
- What is the Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC)
- History
- Why states have adopted the policy
- When it’s in effect
- What practitioners are covered by it
- Blanket immunity for workers compensation
- What data should be collected in order to privilege someone in a disaster?
- What are the best practices beyond what the regulators mandate?
- What actions should the medical staff take immediately post disaster
- Examples from New York City hospitals (call Department of Health, have handy list of out-of-state licensing board’s contact information, etc.)
- Who oversees volunteers?
- National Incident Management System recommendation
- Best practices
- Mechanism for monitoring
- Span of control of volunteers
- Records review
- Revalidating/re-evaluating some of the credentials assigned during the disaster
- Q&A session
FACULTY
David McCann, MD, FAASFP, Chair of the American Board of Disaster Medicine
Dr. McCann is the Chair of the American Board of Disaster Medicine and the Chief Medical Officer for the federal medical disaster team, Florida One DMAT. He has practiced Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine for nearly 20 years and is Clinical Assistant Professor in the Departments of Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine at Mercer University School of Medicine in Macon, Georgia. Dr. McCann is an Instructor for the Department of Homeland Security's Center for Domestic Preparedness at Fort McClellan.
Lewis W. Marshall, Jr., M.D., J.D., President of American Academy of Disaster Medicine
Dr. Marshall currently serves as the Chairman of Emergency Medicine at the Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center, a position he has held for the past five years. This department serves over 100,000 patients per year. He serves on several hospital committees including, Emergency Management, Risk Management, Graduate Medical Education, Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee, the Trauma Committee, and the Medical Board. Dr. Marshall holds several academic appointments including State University of New York Downstate Medical School and the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine. He regularly lectures on medical-legal topics at Fordham University School of Law's "Law and Medicine" course.
WHO SHOULD LISTEN?
Medical staff coordinators, credentials coordinators, medical staff leaders and professionals, credentials committee members and chairs, accreditation compliance directors, patient safety/quality leaders
PROGRAM MATERIALS
Program materials are provided with PDF links. Purchase a tape or CD of the program and listen when you can. It's also a perfect training tool for new staff or as a refresher for veteran staff.
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