UW Medicine’s COVID-19 Response
The content of the presentation will include UW Medicine’s successes during the COVID-19 response and address the development of metrics and triggers that drove response actions. We’ll describe the health system’s overall response, including:
– How IMT was deployed in this environment.
– How traditional ICS principles were modified to fit the healthcare environment.
– Donation management
– Innovations team
– Volunteer Management
– Demobilization Maintenance Reactivation (DMR) Plan
– Visitor Policy
– Intersection with Community Partners (Seatle DMCC)
– Supply Chain Management (Allocation Committee)
– Lessons Learned
– Reporting
About the Presenters
Danica Little, MHA, is the Director of Preparedness for UW Medicine in Seattle, Washington which includes three hospitals, Airlift Northwest air medical transport, and a large network of primary care clinics. With over 20 years as a distinguished leader in healthcare preparedness, Danica is responsible for UW Medicine’s strategic program development, preparedness planning, training and exercise initiatives, overall Business Continuity programming, response coordination and maintaining emergency preparedness and business continuity capabilities, including downtime procedures for clinical operations. She collaborates regularly with other health systems in the region, local response partners and departments across the University and co-chairs the Preparedness Oversight Committee for the University of Washington. She led the response to COVID-19 for UW Medicine and has been with the University for 14 years.
Jasmine Johnson, MHA
Sr. Hospital Emergency Manager, UW Medicine
Michelle Gillies
Homeland Security Program Manager, Snohomish County; Co-Chair Critical Infrastructure Subcommittee, Seattle Urban Area Security Initiative; Vice Chair, WA Region 1 Homeland Security Council