CIENCIASMEDICASNEWS: EPIC Exchange – EPIC webinar info, opioid and disability resources, and an interview with NCFH

viernes, 14 de diciembre de 2018

EPIC Exchange – EPIC webinar info, opioid and disability resources, and an interview with NCFH

Join the Next EPIC Webinar — December 19, 2018

EPIC Webinar, December 19 at 1:00 PM Eastern Time

Have you made a New Year’s resolution? As the new year approaches, resolve to create a crisis communication plan for your organization. This is the best way to make sure you can effectively communicate potentially life-saving messages to the people you serve. Join CDC’s Kellee Waters on December 19 at 1:00 PM ET to learn more. Please click the link below to join the webinar:

https://zoom.us/j/336888256

Or Telephone:

Dial (for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location):

US: +1 646 876 9923 or +1 669 900 6833

Webinar ID: 336 888 256

Additional Learning Opportunities and Resources

CDC has created an interactive training series for health care providers on applying CDC guidelines when prescribing opioids.

CDC has also compiled a number of tools and resources to help people with disabilities and their caregivers prepare for an emergency.

National Center for Farmworker Health

EPIC partners play an important role in emergencies. Learn about a different partner each month.

What is the mission of your organization?

At the National Center for Farmworker Health (NCFH), we strive to improve the health status of agricultural workers and their families by providing innovative training, technical assistance, and information services to the community health centers serving them.

What is the role of your organization in a public health emergency?

During local community emergencies, the NCFH team adjusts its role to meet the needs of the agricultural worker population we serve. Our response efforts often include the following activities:

Anticipating emergencies affecting agricultural worker communities.
Communicating with local organizations and health centers to identify and understand agricultural worker emergency needs.
Maintaining up-to-date communication channels within the health center network.
Identifying information resources and dissemination venues.
Creating low literacy and culturally appropriate emergency preparedness information.
Disseminating NCFH and third-party emergency preparedness information and resources.
Working within the network of Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) funded community and migrant health centers to match resources to health center needs.

How do you plan for emergencies?

Our NCFH team has an emergency preparedness plan and conducts periodic emergency and communication drills to ensure all our team members know what to do in case of an emergency.

What experiences or lessons learned do you have from an emergency response?

During and after Hurricanes Andrew, Katrina, and Rita, we learned several important lessons:

Communications equipment connections and channels often break down during an emergency, and time zone differences offer an additional challenge. Knowing who to contact or even getting through to federal officials can be a big challenge. Through our use of cell and satellite phones, NCFH was able to facilitate communications between affected health centers, HRSA, and other first responder partners.
The national network of community health centers is a very tight-knit group of health professionals concerned with sharing resources to assist sister organizations. NCFH was able to connect volunteer health centers with affected centers in need of mobile units and medical teams. NCFH also worked to overcome licensure, legal, and medical liability barriers to make the process easier.
Liability and project scope issues and policies prevent additional health centers from deploying medical teams to affected areas.
During emergencies, agricultural workers are more vulnerable to impacts than the general population and are poorly positioned to receive pre-event warnings and post-event assistance.