23rd Annual 2025 Preparedness Practicum PLUS

TOPICS/SPEAKERS INCLUDE:

General Sessions (for all):

• Dr. Daniel Aldrich, Professor and Researcher at Northwestern University, will speak on Factors that Drive Resilience and How to Promote Resilience.
• Maria Baca and Carolyn Marinan, Hennepin County Chief Public Relations Officer, will discuss Keeping Cool in a Crisis - Hhow to Manage Your Own Stress
• Jonathan Bundt, Masa Consulting, will speak on the Burnsville Response

Break Out Sessions: (Long Term Care, Disaster Behavioral Health, and Practicum)

• Tanya Welch (Benedictine-Anoka) will be speaking about the imipact of the Microsoft outage on her facility this past summer, including non-functioning EMR and the need to activate downtime procedures; and Laurie Thompson (Vivie fka Walker Methodist) will be speaking about a 7-story assisted living facility that experienced a power outage this past summer
• Kari Everson (VP of Clinical Services at LeadingAge MN and Ken Combs (Metro Coalition team) will be co-presenting on citation trends in Long Term Care Emergency Preparedness Surveys
• Jeff Weatherhead (President and CEO of Plymouth Harbor on Sarasota Bay, FL) will speak on leading his long term care facility through two evacuations within a week due to Hurricanes Milton and Helene
• Tanya K. Bailey (she/her), (PhD, LICSW, Animal-Assisted Interactions Coordinator, PAWS Program Manager) will speak about Animals in Reponse
• Line of Duty Death Panel will discuss the operational impacts to hospitals
• Hurriane Beryl impact on the hospitals in Houston
• Common E Tags and best practices related to their use
• Navigating spirituality in response

COURSE GOAL

Enhance and improve the preparedness of Minnesota healthcare facilities by providing education from lessons learned to providers and other members of the preparedness team. The educational experience will include review of didactic information relevant to the planning and care practices of all involved in preparedness planning.

OVERALL LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Following this activity, participants should be able to:

• Apply lessons learned in communication and multi-agency coordination during recent disasters and incidents.
• Identify critical aspects of staff and resident/ patient protection during disaster/special incident response.
• Integrate best practices and lessons learned from recent incidents and exercises into facility response planning.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Heritage Center of Brooklyn Center, 6155 Earle Brown Drive, Brooklyn Center, United States