WFC ACHE - Ensuring Your Community’s Successful Emergency Preparedness

In the best of circumstances, healthcare organizations operate in a complex environment. This can be exacerbated when a community faces a local or national emergency, either natural, human-caused, or technological, that thrusts the healthcare system to the forefront of response and makes it the focus of recovery efforts. It is critical that the local healthcare community be actively engaged in the development of comprehensive emergency preparedness plans, training, and exercises to ensure that local organizations communicate and coordinate their mutual support in service to the community.

Agenda

11:30-12:30 - Speaker Introduction / Presentation

12:30-1:00 - Q&A

ACHE Virtual Interactive Education Credits: 1.5

Earn ACHE Virtual Interactive Education credits through these innovative, interactive courses from your home or office. Virtual education is offered on a variety of timely healthcare leadership topics and consists of pre-course surveys and assessments, discussion board conversations and scheduled virtual live sessions.

To receive full credit for the course, you are required to participate in all pre-scheduled virtual live sessions. Participants will have access to all course materials/recordings 180 days after the program concludes.

Gloria S. Graham, MLD, CHPA, CPP (Moderator)

Gloria Graham’s law enforcement and public safety career has spanned more than 27 years. She is currently the System Director for Public Safety, Emergency Management and PBX Operations for Lee Health System in southwest Florida. Lee Health is a non-profit, public health system with nearly 90 practice locations, 4 acute care hospitals and 2 specialty hospitals with 1,812 hospital beds, more than 16,000 employees, 4,500 volunteers, and over 830 employed primary care and specialty care providers.

Prior to joining Lee Health she served as the inaugural Associate Vice President for Safety and Security at the University of Virginia after the violent Unite the Right rally of 2017. In 2010, she was appointed Chief of Police at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Graham also served as Assistant Vice President and Deputy Chief of Police at Northwestern University, the University of Chicago and Duke University Police Department. She began her law enforcement career in her home state of Indiana in 1995.

Gloria earned a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice studies from North Carolina Wesleyan University and a master’s degree in leadership development from St. Mary of the Woods College. She is a 2012 graduate of the Northwestern University School of Police Staff and Command, a 2018 graduate of the University of Southern California Race and Equity Institute, and is an IAHSS Certified Healthcare Protection Administrator and ASIS Certified Protection Professional. Gloria is currently appointed to the Pace Lee Center for Girls Board of Directors, and the ASIS Healthcare Steering Committee.

Chona Macalindong, MD

As Deputy Chief Medical Officer of the VA Sunshine Healthcare Network (VISN 8) since 2017, Dr. Chona Macalindong provides programmatic leadership for Primary Care and assists the VISN 8 Chief Medical Officer in oversight and operations of network clinical programs, including serving in the Medical Operations Section of Network Emergency Management. VISN 8 is one of the largest VA health systems in the nation, serving 1.4 million Veterans residing in Florida, South Georgia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, through a network of 8 major hospitals, over 90 community outpatient clinics, and 8 VA nursing homes.

Dr. Macalindong received a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines. She completed 4 years of Internal Medicine Specialty training at the University of Virginia Roanoke-Salem Program. Dr. Macalindong has over 30 years of VA service as a primary care clinician, mentor, and leader. She spent majority of her VA career at North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Health System, where she held positions of increasing clinical oversight, including serving as Deputy Chief of Staff from 2011-2016. She is Board-Certified in Internal Medicine and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.

Daniel Hahn, MA, MBA, CEM, FPEM

Daniel spent 22 years in the United States Army prior to starting his career in emergency management in 2006. Daniel was the Plans Section Chief for the Santa Rosa County Florida, Division of Emergency Management, the Citizen Corps and CERT coordinator, and the administrator of the county COAD (Community Organizations Active in Disasters) called SAFER Santa Rosa, for 12 years. In 2007 Daniel was invited to the Whitehouse for volunteer recognition of Citizen Corps programs. Daniel was named the Florida Emergency Preparedness Association (FEPA) 2009 Emergency Management Professional of the year. In 2011 Daniel was again invited to the Whitehouse as one of the Champions for Change due to involvement with volunteer management during Deepwater Horizon. Daniel earned his master’s degree in Emergency and Disaster Management with American Military University, graduating with honors, and received the President’s Award in 2008. While a student at AMU, Daniel was the founding secretary and first elected President of the International Association of Emergency Managers Student Organization. Daniel also has an MBA with a specialization in homeland security policy and leadership. Daniel was the chair of the IAEM Public Private Partnership Caucus, and is on the editorial board for the Journal of Business Continuity and Emergency Planning. Daniel is a Certified Emergency Manager through IAEM. Daniel is active in his community having served on the board of the EscaRosa Coalition on the Homeless, Healthy Start, and Bridges Out of Poverty. Daniel has also been involved in scouting for over a decade and is currently a scoutmaster. In the spring of 2018 after the Parkland shooting, Florida created a law stating each school district must have a school safety specialist. Rather than hire from within, or assign extra duties to an Assistant Principal, Santa Rosa District Schools hired Daniel away from County Emergency Management to create and develop the Safety Department for the district.

Michael Davis, CHEP

A seasoned professional in disaster preparedness and response, Mike is a graduate of FEMA’s National Emergency Management Advanced Academy and has been certified as an Emergency Management Specialist, a Terrorism and Homeland Security Specialist, and a Healthcare Emergency Professional. He began his EM career with the San Diego County Office of Emergency Services, with wildfire activity being the main threat to the community, including 6 Presidentially Declared Disasters during his tenure. Mike then was presented with an amazing opportunity to help build Facebook’s Global Emergency Management Program, which ironically included the drafting of a corporate Pandemic Response Plan in the months just prior to COVID. After moving to the Tampa area in 2020, Mike joined the BayCare Health System as its first-ever Emergency Manager, overseeing and standardizing emergency planning and response efforts for both the hospital and non-hospital divisions.

Married to a long-time OR Nurse, community preparedness and patient care are a constant thread in the Davis household, and Mike takes great satisfaction in working each day to help ensure the safety and well-being of BayCare’s patients, visitors, and team members.