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
Mountain Plains Regional Disaster Health Response System (MPRDHRS) is supporting a Psychological First Aid course in Sioux Falls (9/24/24) and Rapid City (9/26/24). The Denver Health RESTORE team has adapted and focused PFA to make it specifically applicable to those in high exposure professions within healthcare. It serves as a framework for providing a sense of safety, support and comfort for a person following critical incidents and stressful events of all types, and the entire range of both direct stress and trauma as well as potential secondary stress reactions. Registration here.
The Mountain Plains Regional Disaster Health System Medical Advisory Panel (MPRDHRS MAP) provided expert guidance and supported an informative webinar in response to the ongoing blood culture bottle shortage impacting healthcare facilities that utilize the Becton Dickinson (BD) bottle. The shortage has resulted from supply chain issues in the manufacturing of BD Bactec blood culture bottles. Dr. Anuj Mehta and Dr. Matt Wynia have written an opinion piece on what can be learned from this shortage in MedPage here: What Can We Learn From Blood Culture Bottle Shortage? | MedPage Today
The webinar recording can be accessed here and the guidance can be viewed here: Microsoft Word – MPRDHRS MAP blood culture interim guidance (mountainplainsrdhrs.org)
Dr. Michael Duerson presents on prehospital management of respiratory emergencies in the August session of the Rural EMS Education Series. The recorded session can be accessed here.
Dr. Mark Kortepeter, retired U.S. Army Colonel and author of “Inside the Hot Zone”, discusses the threat of biological warfare and biological terrorism. Potential bioweapons and their sources are reviewed along with high-level considerations that make bioweapons particularly threatening. The module can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/PpUQQIrEOUw
