23rd Annual Preparedness Practicum PLUS

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Wednesday, February 26, 2025 (8:00 AM – 4:30 PM CST)

REGISTRATION INFORMATION:

  • Early Bird Registration $80.00 • through 12/31/25
  • General Registration $90.00 • through 2/20/25
  • Walk In Registration $100.00 • through 2/26/25

TOPICSI NCLUDE:

General Sessions (for all)

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

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

  • Tanya K. Bailey (she/her), PhD, LICSW, Animal-Assisted Interactions Coordinator, PAWS Program Manager will speak about Animals in Response
  • Line of Duty Death Panel will discuss the operational impacts to hospitals
  • Hurricane Beryl impact on the Hospitals in Houston
  • Long Term Care Evacuations related to Hurricane Helene and Milton
  • Common E Tags and best practices related to those Tags
  • Navigating Spirituality in Response

SPEAKER BIOS:

Tanya Welch (Benedictine-Anoka) and Laurie Thompson (Vivie fka Walker Methodist): Tanya will be speaking about the impact of the Microsoft outage on her facility this past summer—including non-functioning EMR and the need to activate downtime procedures. Laurie will be speaking about a 7-story ALF that experienced a power outage this past summer.

Kari Everson and Ken Combs: Kari is the VP of Clinical Services at LeadingAge MN. She and Ken Combs (from the Metro Coalition team) will be co-presenting on citation trends in LTC EP Surveys

Jeff Weatherhead: Jeff is President and CEO of Plymouth Harbor on Sarasota Bay, FL. He led his LTC facility through two evacuations within a week due to Hurricanes Milton and Helene.