Disaster Planning: Restoring Normalcy in the Wake of a Natural Disaster
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Disaster Planning: Restoring Normalcy in the Wake of a Natural Disaster examines the importance of disaster planning for hospitals and other healthcare organizations. In the wake of natural disasters, hospitals and healthcare organizations still need employees to come to work to serve patients, residents and the community. When Hurricane Katrina hit, Ochsner Health System was able to deal with the complexities of the aftermath as well as restore some normalcy to its employees' lives—a task that would up taking a much higher priority than hospital leadership could ever have imagined before post-Katrina flooding turned life in New Orleans upside down.
 
With a continuously updated disaster plan and an integrated workforce management solution in place, Ochsner met its objectives through business continuity plans that ensured its employees were working when they were needed most. And the proof lies in the fact that Ochsner never shut down in the post-Katrina nightmare that hit New Orleans. 

This program illustrates importance of a well-tested disaster plan in place and the critical step of communicating that plan to your workforce. Randal Langford, assistant vice president of physician compensation at Ochsner, provides participants with real-world, dramatic examples of what can go wrong and how IT and Healthcare leaders have to be flexible and always learning from disasters. The slide presentation for this program includes extensive checklists and other information that will take days off your process of developing disaster plans of your own while also giving you a real-world, in-the-trenches view of what happens when you have to put a disaster plan to work.
 

 

 

Training Objectives

 

Participants using this program will:

 
  • Understand what the critical success factors are in developing and executing a business disaster plan
  • Know how to relay important information to the employee base when traditional means of communication are unavailable
  • Minimize disruption of communication through planning and technology
  • Be able to implement a solution to ensure employees are properly paid in an emergency situation
 




About the Speakers

Randal Langford, CPA
CPA, Assistant Vice President of Physician Compensation
Ochsner Health Systems

Randy has a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of New Orleans and is a Certified Public Accountant. Randy has more than 11 years of service with Ochsner Health Systems and has served in other roles as the Director of Physician Compensation and Payroll and Assistant Controller for Ochsner Clinic.



 
 



Brian Graves
Global Practice Leader, Healthcare
Kronos Incorporated

At Kronos, Mr. Graves is focused on helping lead the company in the sales, marketing, development and delivery of the most advanced workforce management solutions for healthcare. With the increased impact on clinical staff by workforce management and the need to maintain high quality care while increasing efficiency, his past experience in clinical system delivery proves invaluable in this effort. With over 16 years in healthcare IT, Brian has held a variety of positions with vendors such as MEDITECH, Pyxis and Picis, spanning Sales, Marketing and Service Delivery; the most recent as the General Manager of Picis UK, before joining Kronos.

 




 

What Is Included?

 

 

 

The CD includes the audio of the presentation, the slides prepared by the speaker and a .pdf file of the slides for printing. Your computer does need an audio component to use this CD.

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