McLaren Macomb employees attend emergency preparedness training

Emergency Preparedness Training

As part of McLaren Macomb’s commitment to emergency preparedness, five hospital employees recently completed a week-long training offered by the Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) in Anniston, Alabama.

McLaren Macomb employees Charles Peck, security supervisor, and Jennifer Dixon, RN, injury prevention coordinator, completed health care leadership training. Michael Marsiglio, RN; Michael Wadman, EMT-P I/C, emergency services liaison; and Hristijan Kontrin, security officer, completed hospital emergency response training.

“I am very fortunate to have been a part of this state-of-the-art training,” said Dixon. “The knowledge and experience I have obtained cannot be duplicated anywhere else."

Health care personnel from more than 25 Michigan hospitals, long-term care facilities, EMS agencies and fire departments attended the training.

Emergency Preparedness Training

The training included a simulated mass-casualty disaster in a fictional town with role-playing actors and a real hospital setting.

“I would recommend this training to anyone who has a leadership role in emergency preparedness,” said Peck. “With the hospital setting, we were provided with extensive training and information about emergency response and setting up incident command during a disaster.”

The CDP develops and delivers advanced training for emergency response providers, emergency managers and state and local government. The CDP offers more than 40 courses focusing on incident management, mass casualty response and emergency response to a catastrophic natural disaster or terrorist act. CDP training is fully funded no cost to emergency response professionals or their employers.

The training at the CDP includes health care and public health courses at the Noble Training Facility, the nation’s only hospital dedicated to training health care professionals in disaster preparedness and response.