Prepared facilities can maintain critical functions, quickly recover from disruptions and adapt to changing circumstances, ensuring long-term operational stability. Plus, a healthcare organization's ability to manage emergencies effectively reflects its commitment to safety and reliability.

This webinar will explore innovative approaches to emergency preparedness for health systems facing natural disasters, with a particular focus on hurricane response. Drawing from Kindred Healthcare’s experience in preparing and responding to hurricanes in Tampa Bay, FL, moderators will delve into how a robust safety culture and strategic partnerships can significantly enhance disaster readiness and recovery efforts.

Health leaders will learn how to leverage the power of their real estate and facilities teams to rapidly mobilize critical vendors, tap into broader support networks during crises. This session will discuss scalable solutions that protect patients and caregivers as well as the physical environment, while maintaining safety, comfort and compliance. This webinar will share best practices that can be adopted across various healthcare settings to drive transformative change in emergency preparedness and response as well as the importance of world-class status updates during emergencies will also be addressed. How Kindred and JLL have developed well-coordinated shutdown and recovery plans tailored for impacted sites and how they work with sourcing teams to identify municipal contacts and information sources will be highlighted.

Learning Objectives:

• Develop a comprehensive emergency preparedness plan tailored for health systems that includes a safety-first culture, extending from pre-disaster planning to post-event recovery.
• Identify strategies for efficient facility management practices that reduce risks and improve patient outcomes.
• Learn techniques for mobilizing resources and partnerships to ensure swift, effective disaster response.

Faculty:

Tony Dickamore, VP of Facilities Management and Construction, ScionHealth

Melanie Parks, Managing Director, JLL Healthcare

Christopher Smith, Account Director, JLL Healthcare

ACHE Qualifying Education Credit 

This activity is eligible for 1 ACHE Qualifying Education credit toward earning or maintaining your FACHE credential. 

Credits must be self-reported at My ACHE upon completion of this activity. 

Thank You, JLL
This program is made possible in part by the support of JLL^®, an ACHE Premier Corporate Partner. ACHE would like to thank JLL for its commitment to ACHE and helping us advance healthcare management excellence. Find more information about JLL here.