SPEAKER PROFILE
NAME: Mike Murphy
TITLE: Director, Metropolitan Medical Response System for Oklahoma City and Tulsa
EMPLOYER: Emergency Medical Service Authority, Oklahoma City
RESPONSIBILITIES: Responsible for medical preparedness and response efforts in Oklahoma’s three largest populated areas.
QUALIFYING EXPERIENCE: With both an educational (see below) and field background in disaster management, specializing in urban and densely populated areas, Mr. Murphy is able to address issues concerning the management of surge capacity in Long Term Care Facilities. Mr. Murphy’s field experience includes the management of over 1800 evacuees, many with special needs, during Hurricane Gustav, requiring medical care.
ACADEMIC HISTORY
INSTITUTION ATTENDED: Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California.
DATE OF GRADUATION: 9/2008
HIGHEST DEGREE: MASTERS DEGREE – HOMELAND SECURITY
PRESENTATION INFORMATION
TITLE OF PRESENTATION: Planning and Managing for Surge Capacity in Long Term Care Facilities During Disasters
OUTLINE OF PRESENTATION: Real time information and the ability to communicate it effectively are two extremely important requirements for managing the aftermath after a natural or man-made disaster. Another one of the great challenges will be coordinating a whole array of services, including blood supply, medication, equipment, beds, tracking and identifying victims moving from one care facility to another and providing ongoing information to service providers and families. Long Term Care Facilities must develop plans that address surge capacity during disasters that are sustainable and integrated into the overall facility planning process. In order to be effective these plans must be done in cooperation and collaboration with other service providers in the community. This presentation will address all of these issues and form the basis of some of the discussions during the Tabletop exercises.
OBJECTIVES: To help Long Term Care Facilities to develop an effective plan for managing surge capacity during a disaster. This includes developing effective and sustainable planning processes, planning for all of the stages of disaster management including, preparedness, response, recovery and mitigation.