Meeting

Regional Workshop Series on Standards of Care during a Mass Casualty Event: New York, NY

When:: April 27, 2009 (8:00 AM Eastern)

Topics:: Biomedical and Health Research, Public Health
Activity:: Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events
Board:: Board on Health Sciences Policy

Workshop Background:

The United States faces the real possibility of catastrophic public health events that could involve thousands, or tens of thousands, of victims. Therefore, it is critically important for health systems to identify, plan, and prepare for the possibility that in a mass casualty event they will need to provide care under an altered standards of care framework, with the explicit goal of saving as many lives as possible given the limited resources. To help address these needs the Institute of Medicine’s Forum on Medical and Public Health for Catastrophic Events is organizing a series of four regional public workshops around the topic of standards of care during a mass casualty event. These regional workshops will take place in Irvine, CA; Orlando, FL; New York, NY; and Chicago, IL. They will feature invited presentations and discussions to explore efforts to establish such standards of care.

Audience:

Policy makers from state and local public health departments. Local and regional public health leaders. Local and state government representatives. Providers from the health care community, including relevant medical disciplines, nursing, EMS, palliative care, hospice, home health, and their associated employee unions. Health care and hospital administrators.

Workshop Objectives:

· Illuminate the progress and successes of efforts underway to establish local, state, and regional standards of care protocols.

What have been some of the barriers in establishing protocols?
What solutions have you developed to operationalize standards of care protocols?

· Improve regional efforts by facilitating a dialog and coordination between neighboring jurisdictions.

· Discuss the roles and responsibilities of each stakeholder community in the development and implementation of standards of care protocols, including officials from state and local health departments and providers.

· Examine what resources, guidelines, and expertise have been used to establish standards of care protocols, including legal and ethical expertise that has been used to establish standards of care protocols.

· Identify and discuss resource requirements that will be necessary from federal, state, and regional authorities to advance and accelerate the establishment of standards of care protocols.