16th Annual WMD/CBRNE Symposium “Preparing on All Fronts: A Community Approach to Preparedness

District 1 Regional Medical Response Coalition (D1RMRC) is pleased to announce the "16th Annual WMD/CBRNE Symposium “Preparing on All Fronts:  A Community Approach to Preparedness", being held at on the campus of Michigan State University at the Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center on Tuesday, February 6, 2018 from 8:45 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Complimentary continental breakfast begins at 8:00 a.m. 

D1RMRC will host national speakers from:

• Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center in Las Vegas on the 2017 mass shooting incident response
• Florida Hospital Memorial Medical Center recent response to hurricane’s Irma and Matthew
• Joint Commission on Best Practices and Lessons Learned from surveys across the nation
• A legal and personal perspective on “Community Response to the Opioid Crisis”
• Western Michigan University Children’s Trauma Assessment Center on the Trauma Informed Approach for Victims of Human Trafficking

The target audience for the symposium includes Hospitals and Outpatient Clinical Facilities, Home Health, Hospice, PACE, Pharmacists, EMS and First Responders, Local Public Health, Emergency Management, Behavioral Health, Long Term Care, Dialysis, Educators, Federal/State/Local government and community partners.

Registration is available on MI-TRAIN at http://www.train.org/mi-train.

If you already have a MI-TRAIN account, search for the course number below:

Course ID:  1074333

If don’t have a MI-TRAIN account, follow these instructions:

Log onto http://www.train.org/mi-train. Click on “Create an Account,” fill out the form and review and accept the TRAIN Policies. Depending on your selected affiliate(s), you may have additional information to complete. When you have finished, click “Create Account.”

Contact D1RMRC at 517-324-4404 if you have any questions.

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