Course Information: HICS is an incident management system based on principles of the Incident Command System (ICS), which assists hospitals and healthcare organizations in improving their emergency management planning, response, and recovery capabilities for unplanned and planned events. HICS is consistent with ICS and the National Incident Management System (NIMS) principles. The principal beneficiaries of […]
In this National Emerging Special Pathogen Training and Education Center webinar attendees will discuss current evidence surrounding clinical trials for COVID-19 therapeutics including ACTT1, ACTT2, and ACTT3, and describe the FDA’s Coronavirus Treatment Acceleration Program (CTAP) when determining new treatments for COVID that are deemed safe and effective. Register Here
VDH will be hosting an Expert Panel on COVID-19 Vaccines on February 16th. The panel will be recorded, and the recording will be available on Virginia Department of Health COVID-19 Vaccine webpage. Please share details of this panel with members of your professional organizations. While content will be tailored to the Dental Community, the panel […]
Course Information: Nursing homes provide essential services that must be protected at all times, including those extraordinary occasions we call emergencies or disasters. Yet it is difficult to predict when an incident may occur that threatens the ability of a nursing home to safely care for its residents, staff, and visitors; or conduct normal operations […]
This exercise will be held virtually with the information emailed out a few days prior to the date. Schedule* below 8:00 - 8:30: Registration 8:30 - 12:30: Tabletop Exercise * Will be updated with a more in depth schedule as we get closer to the date Please click here to Register
Course Information: HICS is an incident management system based on principles of the Incident Command System (ICS), which assists hospitals and healthcare organizations in improving their emergency management planning, response, and recovery capabilities for unplanned and planned events. HICS is consistent with ICS and the National Incident Management System (NIMS) principles. The principal beneficiaries of […]
Course Information: Nursing homes provide essential services that must be protected at all times, including those extraordinary occasions we call emergencies or disasters. Yet it is difficult to predict when an incident may occur that threatens the ability of a nursing home to safely care for its residents, staff, and visitors; or conduct normal operations […]
The Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association and the Virginia Department of Health will be hosting a situational awareness webinar on the Ebola outbreak in Guinea and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and discuss the travel monitoring implemented in the U.S. This webinar is recommended for individuals in a health system responsible for highly infectious […]
INFORMATION As part of our nation’s critical infrastructure, healthcare facilities large and small must be proactive and move quickly to protect themselves from cyberattacks that could directly impact the health and safety of patients and the community at large. According to medical health experts experienced in cybersecurity preparedness, cyberattacks are identified as the top threat […]
About the Event On March 30, 2021, the National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) will release and present on their latest study, Averting Targeted School Violence: A U.S. Secret Service Analysis of Plots Against Schools, and the report's implications for the prevention of targeted school violence. The study examines 67 disrupted plots against K-12 schools that took […]