MPRDHRS is a collaborative effort, housed at Denver Health & Hospital Authority, in partnership with HHS Region VIII: Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming, funded by the Administration of Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR) to improve medical surge and clinical specialty capabilities during an emergency and save lives.
Build a disaster network, establish and operationalize a partnership for Denver Health Response
Align plans, policies, processes and procedures related to clinical excellence in disasters
Increase statewide and regional medical surge capacity
Improve statewide and regional situational awareness
Develop readiness metrics and conduct an exercise to test capabilities
Implementation, managing incidents, HIMS Unites real-time with hospital incident command system
Build a disaster network, establish and operationalize a partnership for Disaster Health Response
Align plans, policies, processes and procedures related to clinical excellence in disasters
Improve statewide and regional situational awareness
Increase statewide and regional medical surge capacity
Develop readiness metrics and conduct an exercise to test capabilities
Dr. Joe Wathen, pediatric emergency medicine physician at Children’s Hospital of Colorado, discusses the early and late signs of pediatric respiratory distress, risk factors that contribute to severe illness, and management options for the pediatric patient infected with respiratory viruses.
To view the associated one-pager to the Management of the Pediatric Patient – Respiratory Viruses recording, click here.
MPRDHRS is supporting an Advanced Burn Life Support (ABLS) course in Cody, WY on 3/28/2025.
The full-day course provides students with hands-on instruction in caring for burn patients in the first 24-hours following injury. Course fees are covered by MPRDHRS for attendees from Region 8 states (CO, UT, MT, ND, SD, WY). Attendees are encouraged to have 6 months of patient care experience before attending.
For questions, please email laura.madsen@uchealth.org
MPRDHRS is supporting an Advanced Hazmat Life Support Provider/Instructor (AHLS) course in Casper, WY from 6/11/2025-6/13/2025.
The 2-day Provider course provides a comprehensive review of managing patients exposed to hazardous materials. The additional half-day Instructor course enables students who have passed the Provider course to become verified instructors to teach future AHLS courses. Course fees are covered by MPRDHRS for attendees from Region 8 states (CO, UT, MT, ND, SD, WY).
For additional information on the course, you can reference the AHLS FAQ here: FAQs | Advanced Hazmat Life Support
Cossette Kathawa, MD and Santi Porragas, MD review essentials for handling OB emergencies. The recorded session can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/FUAFa-XO2yc
Visit the Rural EMS Education Series Repository to view all other previously recorded sessions.
The live Rural EMS Education Series session occurs every 4th Wednesday of the month from 6PM-8PM MST. Free CE’s are available to attendees of the live session, registration can be accessed here.
