The Campbell County Office of Emergency Management’s Director William R. Turner, Deputy Director James Sparks, and Deputy Director Greg Buckler received the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service’s Community Disaster Preparedness for Healthcare certificate.
The certificate is designed for healthcare, public health, emergency management and public safety professionals who wish to enhance their personal knowledge and skills related to healthcare and public health disaster preparedness while earning continuing education credits within their specialty area, per a recent press release.
This program combines an understanding of disaster preparedness and response in the healthcare arena with the practical application of concepts within the classroom environment. Completing the certificate demonstrates a commitment to understanding how current threats impact the healthcare community and current planning, response, and preparedness gaps within the healthcare delivery system.
The required courses provide information on healthcare preparedness and response in chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosives incidents, medical countermeasures and point of dispensing planning and response, bombings and bomb threats, and pediatric disaster response and emergency preparedness.