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NSA Writer's & Publisher's PEG Handout

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Dr. Ramirez Addresses the National Speaker's Assocaition

Dr. Maurice A. Ramirez will be presenting a program entitled "Do YouTube? Get LinkedIn to the New Internet" from 2:15 - 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, August 3rd at the New York Marriott Marquis Times Square in New York City.  As part of his presentation, he will be providing 5 hot seats to create and/or review a social media markeitng plan for participants.

The National Speakers Association national convention is the premier meeting of and for professional speakers. The NSA convention is open to members and non-members alike and is a unique environment for the experience speaker and those new to the business. This year's theme is NSA Rocks and will feature such luminaries as Steve Forbes. The NSA Rocks overview is attached below:

OLD SCHOOL. NEW SCHOOL. YOUR SCHOOL
NSA Rocks NYC!
August 2 - 5, 2008
New York, NY
New York Marriott Marquis Times Square

Sha-dooby, Rock Stars:

What happens when a couple thousand passionate speakers meet up in the coolest hotel on the busiest street of the most-celebrated city in the world? Well I don’t know, but hold on to your bell bottoms, ‘cause we’re planning a shindig in Times Square that’s sure to drop the ball a few months early.

Like the wild anticipation that comes over you with any great concert event, you can’t help but feel your heart pound knowing that NSA is ending its celebrated six-city rock tour in the Big Apple. And with a lineup of marquee main stage keynoters, outstanding concurrent session offerings, and entertainment that’s deserving of its billing on Broadway, the 2008 NSA Convention is sure to be the hottest ticket in town.

So don’t pack up those blue jeans and leather vests yet, gang. Instead, climb aboard the tour bus headed towards the legendary land of Woodstock for a convention experience that will rock your world and roll your business to the top of the charts!

As put so aptly by AC/DC, “For those about to rock, we salute you.” And I do salute you!

To register for NSA Rocks: https://nsa.treefrog.ephibian.net/CONVENTION2008/tabid/84/Default.aspx

See you there!

Maurice

Healthcare Disaster Planning 2008

Third Annual Disaster Planning for Hospitals Conference to be held in Washington, DC August 11 and 12, 2008. Top experts in hospital disaster planning, including Dr. Ramirez will provide step by step planning guidance that has been field tested and disaster proven.

The link for the conference is: https://www.conf-reg.com/webreg/RegGate.wbr?HW08075

The brochure may be viewed from this posting: Download DisasterPlanningPrelim.pdf

Dr. Ramirez will present the Post-Conference Workshop on Tuesday August 12, 2008 from 1:00pm to 4:00pm entitled:

Real-World Strategies for Meeting Surge Capacity: Continuous Integrated Triage and Expanding the Healthcare Highway You stand with nine colleagues facing 5387 patients in need of triage. There are 540 more arriving every hour (9 per minute). How will you find those most in need of your care before it is too late? How will you keep from being overrun? Regular ER Triage won’t do the job. And once you triage them, where do you treat them? Surge capacity means more than treating extra patients. There are family members, friends, bystanders and the curious to contend with. Before you can truly serve the surge, you must not only understand who makes up the surge, but what you will do with them once they arrive. To complicate matters, you must deal with laws such as EMTALA & HIPPA and agencies such as OSHA & EPA. This is the situation that Dr. Ramirez, founder of High Alert LLC, and his team faced in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Continuous Integrated Triage is the system used to triage 5387 people care in less than 10 hours at the Louis Armstrong International Airport following hurricane Katrina. He shares lessons learned from this riveting case study with workshop participants and they will take away a template for triage to implement at their facilities. This workshop also explores how to maximize resources. Expanding the Healthcare Highway is the strategic resource allocation approach that creates capacity through the optimal deployment of existing resources. This workshop demonstrates the overall approach to increasing surge capacity up to 400% while providing detailed procedural guidance to make operations more efficient. Session Objectives: Better prepare healthcare institutions for the mass casualty events. Recognize that surge will be much larger than current plans and drills envision. Understand surge as complex, diverse and multi-dimensional. Learn how the complex, diverse and multi-dimensional nature of surge impacts triage needs. Discuss with your peers the moral, ethical and legal issues inherent to triage decisions. Demonstrate methods to expand surge capacity up to 400%. Prepare healthcare professionals who may be direct targets of harm. This session also focuses on Return on Investment for disaster planning: Strategically plan to accommodate the full volume of surge, decreasing the likelihood of being overwhelmed. Adopt a casualty reception and triage process that matches staff and facilities to the complex, diverse & multi-dimensional surge, reducing wait times and treatment delays. Amplify surge capacity with existing resources, ensuring continuity of care to the community. Clarity for triage personnel regarding their moral, ethical and legal duties in triage, decreasing impediments to patient care and flow. Create resiliency throughout the healthcare workforce, increasing attendance, efficiency and morale. Build community resilience by forging regional partnerships, improving public image and institutional resilience. ABOUT THE WORKSHOP LEADER: Dr. Maurice A. Ramirez is the founder and president of the consulting firm High Alert LLC. He serves on expert panels for pandemic preparedness and healthcare surge planning with Congressional and Cabinet Members. Board certified in multiple specialties, Dr. Ramirez is Founding Chairperson of the American Board of Disaster Medicine and serves the nation as a Senior Physician-Federal Medical Officer in the National Disaster Medical System. Dr. Ramirez has a new book: You Can Survive Anything, Anywhere, Every Time. His website is www.High-Alert.com.