In July of this year, there will be new and revised emergency management (EM) standards and elements of performance (EP), applicable to hospitals and critical access hospitals. This comes after a comprehensive review and rewrites by The Joint Commission.
In this post, we have highlighted just a few of the changes that may be important to your organization.
Email phishing and ransomware attacks are two of the top cybersecurity threats to healthcare organizations. Download our Healthcare Cybersecurity Quick Guide for actionable steps you can take today to reduce the threat of phishing and ransomware.
Aligning cybersecurity governance with enterprise risk management and continuity planning steering committees is an essential step in improving your organization’s resiliency. Download this resource to help identify possible threats to your cybersecurity program and important mitigation practices to help improve your organizational resiliency.
In July of this year, there will be new and revised emergency management (EM) standards and elements of performance (EP), applicable to hospitals and critical access hospitals. This comes after a comprehensive review and rewrites by The Joint Commission.
In this post, we have highlighted just a few of the changes that may be important to your organization.
A mature healthcare cybersecurity program is the shared responsibility of staff, service providers, and leaders. Normalizing cybersecurity into your daily practice requires a commitment to adopting behavioral changes through a meaningful education program. We have collected valuable resources to consider when designing your cybersecurity education and awareness campaign and created a convenient one-page reference guide.
Aligning cybersecurity governance with enterprise risk management and continuity planning steering committees is an essential step in improving your organization’s resiliency. Download this resource to help identify possible threats to your cybersecurity program and important mitigation practices to help improve your organizational resiliency.
Read the first of the Lessons Covid-19 Has Taught Us blog series, based on Angela Devlen's 2021 presentation: Rethinking Preparedness. Across the country, healthcare organizations have been put to the ultimate test with regards to response to a public health crisis, adopting new means of continuing safe patient care, and in insulting their key revenue drivers to ensure that they would withstand the throes to come. Read the key areas of opportunity and organizational strengths culminating throughout the pandemic — and how to incorporate them into your own organization.
With the resources that we have being truly finite when it comes to the management of covid-19, the most important resource that we have is our staff and frontline support workers. For this reason, it is essential to develop and implement pandemic strategies that prevent staffing shortages and burnout.
In this short 5-minute video, our Vice President of Client Services Christopher Sonne, is discussing some alternative staffing solutions to try in your healthcare organization.
Every healthcare resiliency program needs a Steering Committee. It's common to bump-up against difficulties obtaining leadership buy-in throughout this process, so it's important to have a group dedicated to supporting your program. Download our free Steering Committee Charter Template to form your group, establish the scope, and get leadership buy-in on your healthcare resiliency program.
Connecting with Executive Leadership in Healthcare Emergency Management is still challenging, even as organizations are working hard to respond and recover to COVID-19. Working with executives in a way that is clear, direct, and solution-oriented is more important than ever - Incorporate these 3 leadership tips into your work with healthcare executives to get the response and the results your organization needs to recover from COVID-19.
COVID-19 information tracking is so important for staying on top of new challenges, as well as later FEMA and funding reimbursement applications. Download this tracking form today to help your staff stay organized as they tackle challenges, implement new policies, and collect valuable experience information for later reporting.
COVID-19 is having an unprecedented financial impact on healthcare institutions, while they are the front lines saving lives. Start preparing your organization now to apply for financial assistance and FEMA reimbursement as these programs and funds become available. Download the checklist bundle below, intended to assist you through the financial recovery process including, Requests for Public Assistance (RPA), which includes a “ready to use” PDF and a Word document template you can customize for your organization.
During the COVID-19 response or a long-term disaster, workforce access security needs may change based on work reassignments. These changes require new levels of access in one or more units, facilities, or for those working from remote locations. An emergency access “Break the Glass” (BtG) process should be part of your emergency operations or disaster recovery plan including exercising it on a regular basis to work out a workflow or technical issues. Download this guide for your identity access management (IAM), enterprise risk, legal, and operations teams to help you design a “break the glass” process which can provide flexible secure access to critical software applications.
Not all healthcare organizations are responding to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic with the same resources and methodology. We tapped into our network of organizations across multiple geographies to bring together simple, comprehensive templates for your team to deploy as you fight COVID-19 in your community. Download each bundle from this post for immediate deployment in your organization.
Download these Psychosocial Coping Tips for Healthcare Workers, a one-page guide to print and post on your fridge, tape to your glove box, or hang in the workers’ relief area at your healthcare facility. These strategies include options for 90 seconds, 3 - 5 minutes, 15 - 30 minutes, and temporary lifestyle changes to help you cope with the demands of a pandemic without demanding too much of your self-care.
In this post you’ll find information on 1135 Waivers for a Public Health Emergency, sourced from the US Department of Health and Human Services.
During and after your leadership briefing you are going to want to reinforce that this is a process that will continue to mature over time as you continue to move through each stage of your continuity program. Try using at least one, or all of, the following 4 pre-existing methods accessible to you to help you effectively share resilience & continuity information across your healthcare organization.
The purpose of the briefing is to share with leadership and staff what this program means to them, what they need to do and how progress will be measured as you move through the process. Read these 5 tips for how to prepare for a successful leadership briefing. Plus a free downloadable powerpoint template you can customize for your presentation.
Now that your Executive Sponsor has been established, you are going to work with them to identify leaders that will serve on the steering committee. This can also be an existing committee where your program becomes a sponsored new agenda item on a regular basis.
Download the linked customizable Steering Committee Charter Template to use in your organization when forming your program’s steering committee.
Executive sponsors are vital to the success of your emergency management and continuity program, as they help to:
Maintain program communication among departments;
Encourage staff accountability & participation; and
Address program questions and feedback for improvement.
Download this tip sheet for a list of suggested topics to discuss during your executive sponsor interviews.
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