Mountain Plains Regional Disaster Health Response System

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

Build a disaster network, establish and operationalize a partnership for Denver Health Response

ALIGN

Align plans, policies, processes and procedures related to clinical excellence in disasters

INCREASE

Increase statewide and regional medical surge capacity

IMPROVE

Improve statewide and regional situational awareness

DEVELOP

Develop readiness metrics and conduct an exercise to test capabilities

COORDINATE

Implementation, managing incidents, HIMS Unites real-time with hospital incident command system

Program Capabilities

BUILD

Build a disaster network, establish and operationalize a partnership for Disaster Health Response

ALIGN

Align plans, policies, processes and procedures related to clinical excellence in disasters

IMPROVE

Improve statewide and regional situational awareness

INCREASE

Increase statewide and regional medical surge capacity

DEVELOP

Develop readiness metrics and conduct an exercise to test capabilities

Current Updates

Training Opportunity

Pediatric Fundamental Critical Care Support (PFCCS)

MPRDHRS is supporting a Pediatric Fundamental Critical Care Support Course (PFCCS) in Missoula, MT from 5/1/2025-5/2/2025.

This curriculum is developed by the Society for Critical Care Medicine and the course is facilitated by Children’s Hospital of Colorado. This course is for interdisciplinary healthcare team members including physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, and EMS professionals. Course fees are covered by MPRDHRS for learners from Region VIII states (CO, UT, MT, ND, SD, WY)

Spots are limited and registration will close on 3/15/2025 – register below!

Training Opportunity

Advanced Burn Life Support
(ABLS)

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 VIII 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

Rural EMS Education Series | Burn and Frostbite Care

Fred Endorf, MD, presents on the management of burn and frostbite injuries for pre-hospital providers. The recorded session can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/fHnqOsFAudk

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.

Rural EMS Education Series | High Yield EKG Refresher

Steve Rydquist, FP-C, CC-P, provides a 3-hour high yield EKG refresher geared towards ALS providers. The recorded session can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/8xYmz2NWrzs

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.

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