Focus on the Flu
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that an H1N1 (Swine Flu) pandemic had begun. XBRM has developed programs and training designed to help your organization meet the challenges ahead.
Worried Well. A critical lesson learned in the first wave of H1N1 (Swine Flu) was that the numbers of “worried well” can easily overwhelm even the best run emergency department. Hospitals across the U.S. experienced a dramatic surge in patients with and without flu symptoms demanding medical services. A run on pharmacies in the U.K. recently cleared shelves of masks, thermometers and hand sanitizing gels. Public Health officials have warned that the H1N1 flu may return in a more powerful form this fall (2009) and will begin nearly simultaneously with the regular seasonal flu.
On June 11, 2009, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that a pandemic had begun and XBRM stands ready to help your organization meet the challenges ahead. With nearly a decade of experience, XBRM has helped organizations of all types prepare for the unique and complex behavioral factors associated with an influenza pandemic. XBRM is home to some of the nation’s foremost experts in the behavioral aspects of pandemic preparedness. We have helped offices within the United Nations and in the U.S. government charged with pandemic readiness in developing plans, policies and exercises to test their response capabilities. Some of the nation’s largest and most sophisticated health and human service agencies depend on XBRM for guidance and support in preparing and responding to what can be a complicated and confusing threat.
Violence. While no organization is immune from pandemic-related risks, the potential for frustration, anger, hostility, and even violence, at health care centers and vaccination distribution sites is very real. Difficult, perhaps dangerous individual, crowd, and mob behavior is foreseeable and in many instances preventable. XBRM can help prepare your team to meet the behavioral challenges of vaccine and medication distribution site operations using evidence-informed behavioral models.
Training. In advance of what is expected to be a and complex public health emergency, XBRM has created this unique suite of training programs to help ready your work force for the very likely and significant behavioral issues anticipated in the coming flu season. XBRM has combined four of our most popular behavioral risk management courses together into a must have training series for any organization (private or public), business, or retailer, involved in the distribution of vaccine or antiviral medications. Together, the knowledge and skills developed through this training series will empower and ready your workforce to effectively safely and manage the unique psychological and emotional reactions associated with the H1N1 flu and other public health emergencies. If you are a Convenient Care Retail Clinic click here for our eLearning Vaccine Distribution Centers brochure.
Swine Flu: Is Your Organization “Pandemic” Ready?
Steven Crimando, Managing Director of XBRM, and other key experts, were recently interviewed for Financial Management Network (FMN) by SmartPros to discuss businesses’ responsibility during a pandemic.
The questions, and their answers, are both informative and revealing about what business executives should expect in the coming months, how they should prepare, and the behavioral/mental health issues they will face in the workplace.
Click here to watch the interview
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