UGA Institute for Disaster Management

It was a pleasure to travel to Tennessee to offer our emergency preparedness and infectious disease training to the long term care staff of the Upper Cumberland Healthcare Preparedness Coalition.

Our team is so passionate about the work they do and love to share their knowledge with the individuals caring for one of our most vulnerable populations.

Thank you to the attendees and to our friends at the UCH Coalition for having us.

Disaster Exercise Photo Series 3 | Command Center

In the central hub of disaster response, the Command Center, seven students gathered to coordinate the response of a simulated tornado. Each playing a different role in the Incident Command structure, students communicated with first responders on scene, hospitals, and police, all while working from limited and potentially unreliable information. In a disaster response, these are the individuals responsible for finding, coordinating, and sending resources to aid the care of those impacted by the event.

Disaster Exercise Photo Series 2 | Response

A tornado struck the Health Sciences Campus – or so students were told at the beginning of their skills assessment exercise. Teams of responders were sent to the scene with first aid supplies and instructed to assess, triage, and evacuate the injured. Dealing with an unsafe environment, limited resources, and poor communication methods, students were challenged with reaching the command center to request aid.

All injuries are simulated for training purposes only

This month, IDM partnered with Piedmont Healthcare to develop and deliver two 4-hour trainings on the Hospital Incident Command System for leadership.

With both the HICS Leadership Course and the HICS Leadership Train-the-Trainer Course now complete, we want to thank everyone that made this effort successful. We're looking forward to seeing how this work supports teams across the system moving forward!

Congratulations, graduates! We are so grateful to have been a part of your time here at UGA. Come back and see us ❤️