Ep. 11 – Preparedness for Climate-Based Threats

GNYHA’s Anne Liston Sullivan, RN, Associate Vice President, Quality and Clinical Initiatives, sits down with infection prevention experts Priya Dhagat, MS, MLS(ASCP) CM, CIC, CHEP, of NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue, and Alison Bradbury, MSN, RN, CIC, of NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County for a timely conversation about how hospitals can stay ready for measles.

Join GNYHA’s Jon Cooper, Senior Vice President, Federal Affairs, and Andrew McKechnie of the Tiber Creek Group as they explore the challenges the health care sector may face over the next four years, with a focus on Medicare and Medicaid funding, regulatory hurdles, and immigration.

GNYHA’s Lee Perlman, interviews Danielle Butin, Founder of the Afya Foundation, who's goal its to create access to critical medical supplies where there is none. They also discuss Ms. Butin’s new book, Wild Hope Now, which showcases how deeply connected Afya is to the communities it serves. 

Mercedes Redwood of NYC Health + Hospitals reviews how Health + Hospitals has transformed their patient meal offerings to feature plant-based meals throughout the health system, benefiting patients while simultaneously reducing their carbon footprint and saving the system hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.    View supplemental materials on the NYC H+H Plant-Based Meals program.

Svetlana Lipyanskaya, CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals/South Brooklyn Health; and Daniel Collins, Senior Associate Director of Facilities explore the disaster planning that went into the creation of South Brooklyn Health’s new, architecturally flexible, hurricane-proof hospital, including being prepared for future climate-based threats and increasing surge and flex capabilities. 

Dr. Jason Golbin, Executive Vice President & Chief Medical Officer at Catholic Health explores strategies to use when implementing patient safety initiatives and how to foster collaboration between the leadership, staff, and patients.

Erin McDonough, Chief Communication Officer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and former Chief Communication Officer at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital; and Mike Hughes, Senior Vice President and Chief of Staff at Buffalo’s Kaleida Health take an expert look at hospital crisis communications.

Dr. Scott Shipman, Director, Clinical Innovations and Primary Care Initiatives at the Association of American Medical Colleges explores the relationship between primary care and specialty care providers, including access challenges and strategies to overcome them. 

Dr. Meghan McGinty, Situation Unit Leader & Director, Emergency Planning, Resilience, and Recovery at NYC Health + Hospitals; and Scott Heller, Vice President, System Emergency Management at Albany Medical Center discuss how the health care industry has adapted to changing emergency events and overlapping and long-term emergency activations.

Dr. Alyssa Silver, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and attending physician at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore; and Dr. Noé Romo, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Pediatrics Inpatient discuss the role health care providers and institutions can play in firearm injury prevention.