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Chair: Jason Chenault, CEM, healthcare@iaem.com
Vice Chair: Kristen N. Kolleda
Vice Chair: Teri L. Axman, CEM
Board Liaison: Randy Pommenville, CEM, IAEM-USA Region 7 President, iaem.r7@iaem.com
Staff Liaison: Alex Tyeryar, alex@iaem.com
IAEM-USA members interested in participating in this caucus should email the caucus staff liaison and tell them how you can contribute to or learn from this committee's important work.
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The mission of the IAEM-USA Healthcare Caucus is to represent emergency management issues unique to the hospital and healthcare setting. Although a part of the communities to which they serve, healthcare institutions and organizations have special and sometimes unique considerations when preparing their patients, staff, and visitors for responding to, recovering from and mitigating against emergencies. The purpose of the caucus is to provide emergency managers within the healthcare arena a voice on a national and international scale to ensure their needs are being addressed by government and industry officials. (from the 3/2010 Bylaws)
In addition to the annual goals and priorities established at the IAEM-USA Annual Conference, the Caucus will always address the following standing goals:
General Membership: The IAEM-USA Healthcare Caucus General Membership meets via conference call every 4th Friday of the odd months at 11:30-12:30 p.m. EST.
2023 Caucus General Membership Meetings are scheduled as follows:
To add these meetings to your calendar, please email healthcare@iaem.com and a Microsoft Teams invite will be sent to you.
To add these to your calendar, please visit: https://signup.com/go SignUp does not require an account. It will let you pick the meetings you want to attend, and then it will let you add them to your calendar. The meeting invites will include the GoToMeeting or call-In information, and it will also send you a reminder. Signing up this way does not commit you to the meeting. It just helps get it on your calendar.
To be an official member of the IAEM-USA Healthcare Caucus, as reported to the IAEM-USA Board, an individual must:
All members of this caucus shall be designated as a healthcare emergency management practitioner, or have a majority interest in healthcare emergency management within their profession.
A “healthcare emergency management practitioner” is defined as an individual who is working or volunteering in the healthcare arena and whose primary duties include the addressing the four phases of emergency management within that arena.
It is strongly encouraged, although not required, that caucus members possess CEM/AEM certification.
The designation of “Associate Member” may be granted to any current IAEM-USA member who serves in a tangential, but related role, to healthcare emergency management. It is only a form of recognition. It does not reflect any special role, responsibility, position, status, or privilege with respect to the Caucus.
The IAEM Healthcare Google Group is open to anyone working in or affiliated with healthcare emergency management. Vendors, with the intent of selling to this group are prohibited, which allows the list serve to be a forum for best practice sharing within healthcare emergency management practitioners. To join the IAEM Healthcare Google Group, start here: https://groups.google.com/u/o/g/iaem-healthcare.
Recording: The webinar recording is available to the public here. Join Caecilia (Cece) Blondiaux, with the Quality, Safety & Oversight Group (QSOG) from CMS, who will provide a recap and updates on the Emergency Preparedness Final Rule. Ms. Blondiaux also will highlight and discuss key areas where CMS is seeing an increased number of deficiencies as related to the final rule. There will be approximately 20-25 minutes allotted for a question-and-answer session at the end of the webinar.
Recording: The webinar recording is available for IAEM members here. About the Webinar: Are you interested in learning more about the new CMS Emergency Preparedness Final Rule? How does the final rule impact more than just hospitals? The IAEM-USA Healthcare Caucus has partnered with ASPR to conduct a two-part webinar series to discuss the new CMS Preparedness Final Rule. The first webinar on Mar. 23 focused on understanding requirements of the CMS Emergency Preparedness Final Rule and share resources available via ASPR TRACIE. The second webinar, which will focus on CMS interpretive guidance as it relates to the CMS Emergency Preparedness Final Rule, will be scheduled after release of the CMS interpretive guidance anticipated in May 2017.
Recording: The webinar recording is available for IAEM members here. About the Webinar: For a number of years, the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) has been funding local jurisdictions to form and maintain healthcare coalitions to plan for, respond to, and recover from disasters. Healthcare coalitions are comprised of healthcare providers across the spectrum – hospitals, public health, long-term care and primary care providers, EMS, and community mental health that come together to develop regional surge plans. The IAEM-USA Healthcare Caucus welcomed representatives from two healthcare coalitions – Sarah Seiler of the Metrolina Healthcare Preparedness Coalition in North Carolina and Dave Freeman of the Central Florida Disaster Medical Coalition – to see how these jurisdictions direct their work, fund, and effectively plan for regional surge.
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