Training Calendar
Please note: upcoming events are listed chronologically underneath our calendar.
eFINDs Train the Trainer
eFINDS is a tracking system/application on the Health Commerce System (HCS) that should be used by a healthcare facility in the event of an emergent, urgent or planned evacuation. The application captures minimal amounts of data and allows facilities to track the patient/resident movement to other facilities, facility types or temporary shelters.
Hospitals that need to build capacity or need to replace an eFINDS facility-based trainer who can no longer fulfill this responsibility should send a staff person to this training.
Mass Casualty Incident Management Workshop
This MCI workshop is designed for anyone involved in delivering emergency services as a result of a mass-casualty incident. EMS, fire, police, aeromedical, ED, and dispatch center personnel will benefit from attending since joint response and coordination are crucial to successful MCI management.
Mass Casualty Incident: After Action
The Healthcare Training Center (HTC) Monthly Webinar Series is a collaborative training initiative designed to plumb the depths of all-hazards preparedness and response. Each month, guest lecturers will lend subject-matter expertise to particular topics that materially impact Healthcare Emergency Preparedness Coalitions. As a compliment to traditional, “pre-approved” training, these 60-90 minute engagements will provide focused insight on best-practices, regulatory updates, training, incident management, and personal accounts of real-world responses. Derived from Hospital Preparedness Program capabilities, this virtual series will take a comprehensive approach to preparing for, responding to, and recovering from a wide variety of high-stakes, healthcare challenges.
Hospital Emergency Response Training
HERT Indirect will review the skills needed to perform successful and safe decontaminations operations for MCI patients exposed to a chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear hazards.
MGT-346: EOC Operations & Planning for All Hazard Events
The Disaster Preparedness for Healthcare Organizations Within The Community Infrastructure course provides information specific to healthcare organizations vulnerability to a disaster. During this FEMA sponsored course, participants will be introduced to the various natural, technological, and civil hazards to which healthcare organizations may be vulnerable and the potential impacts of those hazards.
Hospital Emergency Response Training
HERT Indirect will review the skills needed to perform successful and safe decontaminations operations for MCI patients exposed to a chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear hazards.
eFINDs Train the Trainer
eFINDS is a tracking system/application on the Health Commerce System (HCS) that should be used by a healthcare facility in the event of an emergent, urgent or planned evacuation. The application captures minimal amounts of data and allows facilities to track the patient/resident movement to other facilities, facility types or temporary shelters.
Hospitals that need to build capacity or need to replace an eFINDS facility-based trainer who can no longer fulfill this responsibility should send a staff person to this training.
MGT-319: Medical Counter Measures - Pod Planning & Response
This course is a guide for local health officials and their partners to coordinate plans to provide mass distribution of medical countermeasures in response to a large-scale public health incident. This course focuses on planning considerations, recommendation to achieve the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) 48-hour standard for Mass Prophylaxis, and the local community’s Mass Prophylaxis and Point of Dispensing (POD) site preparedness. The course material is applicable to pandemic influenza, bio-terrorism, and other public health emergencies
HSEEP: Homeland Security Exercise & Evaluation Program
At completion of this course, students will increase awareness of the Homeland Security Exercise Evaluation Program Doctrine, clarify roles and responsibilities, and improve teamwork and coordination.
Hospital Emergency Response Training- 2 Day
This course is designed to provide guidance to hospital staff and others who may be required to support the hospital response to an MCI involving contamination as a result of a natural, accidental, or intentional incident.
Hospital Emergency Response Training
HERT Indirect will review the skills needed to perform successful and safe decontaminations operations for MCI patients exposed to a chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear hazards.
eFINDs Train the Trainer
eFINDS is a tracking system/application on the Health Commerce System (HCS) that should be used by a healthcare facility in the event of an emergent, urgent or planned evacuation. The application captures minimal amounts of data and allows facilities to track the patient/resident movement to other facilities, facility types or temporary shelters.
Hospitals that need to build capacity or need to replace an eFINDS facility-based trainer who can no longer fulfill this responsibility should send a staff person to this training.
ICS-300: Intermediate ICS for Expanding Incidents
IS-300 is a three-day program that delivers ICS curricula for the expanding incident.
HICS Webinar
The HICS webinar session will provide an overview of the Hospital Incident Command System (HICS) and the operation of the Hospital Command Center (HCC) during emergency and non-emergency situations.
Public Information Basics (L-105)
This National Emergency Management Basic Academy course introduces the participants to what the Public Information Officer (PIO) does in emergency management along with the basic information about the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS). The PIO topics covered include the role of the PIO; communication tools and resources encompassing social media; effective communication; preparing the community through outreach and other means; and communication in an incident.
GNYHA Member Debriefing Sessions on CrowdStrike Outage
The Healthcare Training Center (HTC) Monthly Webinar Series is a collaborative training initiative designed to plumb the depths of all-hazards preparedness and response. Each month, guest lecturers will lend subject-matter expertise to particular topics that materially impact Healthcare Emergency Preparedness Coalitions. As a compliment to traditional, “pre-approved” training, these 60-90 minute engagements will provide focused insight on best-practices, regulatory updates, training, incident management, and personal accounts of real-world responses. Derived from Hospital Preparedness Program capabilities, this virtual series will take a comprehensive approach to preparing for, responding to, and recovering from a wide variety of high-stakes, healthcare challenges.
GNYHA Member Debriefing Sessions on CrowdStrike Outage
The Healthcare Training Center (HTC) Monthly Webinar Series is a collaborative training initiative designed to plumb the depths of all-hazards preparedness and response. Each month, guest lecturers will lend subject-matter expertise to particular topics that materially impact Healthcare Emergency Preparedness Coalitions. As a compliment to traditional, “pre-approved” training, these 60-90 minute engagements will provide focused insight on best-practices, regulatory updates, training, incident management, and personal accounts of real-world responses. Derived from Hospital Preparedness Program capabilities, this virtual series will take a comprehensive approach to preparing for, responding to, and recovering from a wide variety of high-stakes, healthcare challenges.
GNYHA Member Debriefing Sessions on CrowdStrike Outage
The Healthcare Training Center (HTC) Monthly Webinar Series is a collaborative training initiative designed to plumb the depths of all-hazards preparedness and response. Each month, guest lecturers will lend subject-matter expertise to particular topics that materially impact Healthcare Emergency Preparedness Coalitions. As a compliment to traditional, “pre-approved” training, these 60-90 minute engagements will provide focused insight on best-practices, regulatory updates, training, incident management, and personal accounts of real-world responses. Derived from Hospital Preparedness Program capabilities, this virtual series will take a comprehensive approach to preparing for, responding to, and recovering from a wide variety of high-stakes, healthcare challenges.
ICS-300 Refresher: Intermediate ICS for Expanding Incidents
IS-300 Refresher is a one-day program that delivers ICS curricula for the expanding incident.
Labor Action Planning Webinar
The Healthcare Training Center (HTC) Monthly Webinar Series is a collaborative training initiative designed to plumb the depths of all-hazards preparedness and response. Each month, guest lecturers will lend subject-matter expertise to particular topics that materially impact Healthcare Emergency Preparedness Coalitions. As a compliment to traditional, “pre-approved” training, these 60-90 minute engagements will provide focused insight on best-practices, regulatory updates, training, incident management, and personal accounts of real-world responses. Derived from Hospital Preparedness Program capabilities, this virtual series will take a comprehensive approach to preparing for, responding to, and recovering from a wide variety of high-stakes, healthcare challenges.
Planning: Emergency Operations (L-103)
This course in the National Emergency Management Basic Academy is designed to give basic concepts and planning steps to those new to the field of emergency management so that they may apply planning discipline and skills to challenges in their jobs. The course content includes emergency management planning doctrine and steps to take to accomplish writing plans and using them to deal with special events, which are common challenges for all jurisdictions.
Hospital Emergency Response Training
HERT Indirect will review the skills needed to perform successful and safe decontaminations operations for MCI patients exposed to a chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear hazards.
Science of Disaster (L-102)
This course in the National Emergency Management Basic Academy is designed to provide the participants with an overview of scientific principles and concepts that shape our increasingly dangerous world.
ICS-300 Refresher: Intermediate ICS for Expanding Incidents
IS-300 Refresher is a one-day program that delivers ICS curricula for the expanding incident.
3 Day HERT
The Hospital Emergency Response Training for Mass Casualty Incidents (HERT) course addresses healthcare response at the operations level for the facility and its personnel. This three-day course prepares healthcare responders to utilize the Hospital Incident Command System — integrating into the community emergency response network while operating an Emergency Treatment Area as hospital first responders during a mass casualty incident involving patient contamination. The healthcare responders will determine and use appropriate personal protective equipment and conduct triage followed by decontamination of ambulatory and nonambulatory patients as members of a Hospital Emergency Response Team.
Hospital Emergency Response Training
HERT Indirect will review the skills needed to perform successful and safe decontaminations operations for MCI patients exposed to a chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear hazards.
eFINDs Train the Trainer
eFINDS is a tracking system/application on the Health Commerce System (HCS) that should be used by a healthcare facility in the event of an emergent, urgent or planned evacuation. The application captures minimal amounts of data and allows facilities to track the patient/resident movement to other facilities, facility types or temporary shelters.
Hospitals that need to build capacity or need to replace an eFINDS facility-based trainer who can no longer fulfill this responsibility should send a staff person to this training.
Psychological First Aid TtT
The Office of Health Emergency Preparedness (OHEP), in partnership with the NYS Of-fice of Mental Health (OMH) and the SUNY New Paltz Institute for Disaster Mental Health (IDMH), has developed a revised curriculum in Psychological First Aid (PFA). PFA is an evidence-informed approach that pro-vides staff with practical methods to help people with their basic needs and immediate concerns during, or in the aftermath, of an emergency. It is designed to reduce the initial distress caused by traumatic events and to foster short- and long-term adaptive functioning and coping.
Public Information Basics (L-105)
This National Emergency Management Basic Academy course introduces the participants to what the Public Information Officer (PIO) does in emergency management along with the basic information about the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS). The PIO topics covered include the role of the PIO; communication tools and resources encompassing social media; effective communication; preparing the community through outreach and other means; and communication in an incident. The IPAWS topics covered include what the system is and does, preparing alert and warning messages, and writing common alerting protocol messages. This is a 2-day classroom course which gives participants time to perform activities and exercises to reinforce the knowledge and build basic skills.
Psychological First Aid TtT
The Office of Health Emergency Preparedness (OHEP), in partnership with the NYS Of-fice of Mental Health (OMH) and the SUNY New Paltz Institute for Disaster Mental Health (IDMH), has developed a revised curriculum in Psychological First Aid (PFA). PFA is an evidence-informed approach that pro-vides staff with practical methods to help people with their basic needs and immediate concerns during, or in the aftermath, of an emergency. It is designed to reduce the initial distress caused by traumatic events and to foster short- and long-term adaptive functioning and coping.
ICS 800 Webinar
ICS800: This course provides guidance for the whole community. Within this broad audience, the National Response Framework focuses especially on those who are involved in delivering and applying the response core capabilities.
Homeland Security Exercise & Evaluation Program (HSEEP)
This is an intermediate-level course designed to describe the core principles and processes of HSEEP, its standardized methodology, available resources, and practical skill development, which will assist in developing an HSEEP consistent exercise program. The objectives of the course are to understand the role of HSEEP in National Preparedness, and how HSEEP exercise principles and methodology support efforts across the whole community to improve our national capacity to build, sustain, and deliver core capabilities.
Cybersecurity Webinar
Cybersecurity Webinar Learning Objectives:
Review the current Cyber threat landscape
Review common Emergency Management terms and concepts
Identify the regulatory framework for cyber incident planning
Describe the Emergency Manager’s role in cyber incident planning and response
Describe how Information Technology’s Cyber Incident Response team can be integrated into your hospitals Incident Command structure during an incident
Planning: Emergency Operations (L-103)
The goals of this course are to promote effective emergency management planning practices and enhance planning skills through application exercises.
Disaster Response and Disaster Mental Health in NYS
Following last year's webcast describing the experiences of two survivors of mass shootings, this year's event will feature a multi-agency panel representing the key organizations involved in disaster response in New York State. Leaders from New York State Department of Health Office of Health Equity and Human Rights, New York State Office of Mental Health Bureau of Emergency Preparedness and Response, and the American Red Cross will explain how they prepare, deploy, and manage personnel throughout an operation, with focus on disaster mental health. They'll discuss specific examples of responses that went well, lessons learned, and operational improvements planned for the future.