Joint Provider Fire Marshal will be online this year on July 29th

Learning Objectives

At the completion of this program, the participants will:

  • Identify the needs of older adults in an emergency setting and explore how organizations and the community can help to increase the preparedness and resiliency of older adults during an emergency
  • Build community relationships for information sharing, resource sharing and increased communications that will assist during and emergency event through regional planning
  • Identify gaps in relationships and resource sharing specific to COVID-19
  • How to start your disaster training beginning with NIMS (National Incident Management System)
  • Utilizing NHICS ( Nursing Home Incident Command System)
  • Creating your HVA (Hazard Vulnerability Assessment) tailored to your facility’s needs
  • Know the top fire safety citations in adult care facilities with a view toward lessening their prevalence
  • The importance of unified messaging, cross-training, communications, planning resources, and relationships building during an emergency
  • How and what your local emergency manager can do for your facility at the local and state level
  • Emergency management disaster response efforts to COVID-19
  • COVID-19 Future Planning
  • Defining health care coalitions and their role during COVID-19 and other emergencies
  • Identifying critical contacts to establish prior to an emergency

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Addy Cunningham
A graduate of Wichita State University’s Math Education program, Addy is using her planning and organizational skills, creativity, and love of helping others to support our providers and members. First as Administrative Coordinator and now as Associate Director of Communications & Events, Addy’s primary duties include overseeing general member communications through social media, our Weekly Member Calls, the Aging Update, and database and website maintenance. She also collaborates with the team to plan, produce, and market events across all aspects of LeadingAge Kansas, manage Continuing Education processing.. Outside of the office, Addy enjoys crafting, playing board games, video games, and DnD, and spending time with her husband and their two cats.