Community Commitment Providing Ebola Treatment in the Inland Northwest About Us Providence Health Care- Eastern WA 996 licensed beds (644 at SHMC) 6186 Employees 38,970 Admissions/Year 149,312 Emergency Room visits / year 4441 Births per year 2 Our Mission and Vision As people of Providence, we reveal Gods love for all, especially the poor and vulnerable, through our compassionate service. Creating Healthier Communities Together 3 Ebola in America 4 Nurses at Texas hospital say they were unprepared to handle Ebola victim 5 CDC head assures Ebola not serious risk to U.S., Obama mulls 'czar' while nurse patients moved out of Dallas Managing the Momentum of Media and Fear What to do First? SRHD and DOH Emory University Nebraska Medical Center CDC: Information and recommendations changing almost daily 6 Where is our Stuff? PPI inventory management: Where is it? What is it? How much do we have? 7 Organizing within a System and State First Steps DOH Cross Functional Checklist Steering Committee Lessons Learned Decisions Local support Competing for supplies Long term approach 8 Measuring Success How do we know we are prepared? CDC visit Drills, improvement plans, prospective approach 9