This meeting was not recorded due to audio/visual limitations.
Meeting slides:
August 3, 2018 Meeting Slides
Notes from August 3 meeting
Hospital Meeting:
Requirements for drilling WI Trac (bed counts and MCI counts) are no longer in the grant, therefore WIHERC (formally WHEPP) has stopped requiring them and scheduling them. The consensus among the group was to keep doing them at the same intervals as we previously had.
We talked about the SCWIHERC MCI Surge full scale exercise. The exercise will be held in June 2019, exact date to be determined. This is a coalition-based exercise that focuses on how we respond to MCIs as a region, and may not cover every aspect of every facility’s surge or emergency operations plan. Hospitals are not required to participate, but participating hospitals must provide an internal controller/evaluator. The exercise will focus on medical surge and regional medical coordination from the point of secondary triage in the field through hospital placement, and will look at resource sharing and communication plans/protocols. The SCWIHERC hospital group will be involved in exercise planning at hospital meetings, but Jennifer is also looking for volunteers to be on the exercise design team.
Membership Meeting:
Jennifer introduced two new members of our Board, Aurielle Smith (UW Health) representing Trauma and Jim Acker (Watertown Fire) representing EMS.
Claudine McCarthy from the DHS Office of Preparedness and Emergency Health Care gave a presentation on the HPP grant, capabilities, and coalition workplan. More info can be found at
Walk in items/partner updates:
The Cybersecurity TTX will be held on September 27 at Madison Turners Hall, 3001 S Stoughton Rd.
We found out we have fewer closed POD sites in our region than we thought. We identified a need to update our closed POD plans, and a workshop/exercise to explore the new closed POD template available to public health, similar to the one recently delivered in region 7.
With the recent outbreak of coagulopathy related to synthetic cannabinoids tainted with brodifacoum, Americares is an organization that is providing no cost vitamin K tablets (the standard treatment/antidote to brodifacoum poisoning). Please share this information with your clinicians and pharmacies.
We shared lessons learned from recent events. Please make it a priority to respond to WI Trac alerts requesting your resources. In two recent events, WI Trac response has been inadequate and this lack of information created uncertainty when responding to the incident.
We broke into small groups and did some strategic planning for the coalition, which will be used for future planning.
Meeting attendees:
Gail Scott, Jefferson Cty Health Dept
Donna Haugom, Jefferson Cty EM
Lynda Brereton, St Mary’s Madison
Heather Poker, St. Mary’s Madison
Paul Hable, Fort Healthcare
Ben Eithun, UW Health
Mike Stephens, UW Health
Karen Munt, Meriter
Barb Kuska, Beloit Health System
Patty Walgenbach, Waupun Memorial
Christal Foreyt, Gundersen Boscobel
Sharon Foley, Divine Savior
Angie Cohen, Grant Regional
Jon Erdmann, Divine Savior
Jeff Jelinek, Sauk Co EM
Bob Swenarski, St. Mary’s Janesville
Tracy Buchman, Stoughton Hospital
Tina Strandlie, Stoughton Hospital
Nikki Salas, Watertown Hospital
Stephanie Alami, Central WI Center
Mary Crowley, Juneau Co Health Dept
Jane Gervais, Adams Co EM
Karen Sell, Columbus Community Hospital
Casey Farnum, UW Health
Dan Michaels, PHMDC
Steve Haskell, UW Health
Claudine McCarthy, DHS OPEHC
Sharon Warden, Mile Bluff Med Ctr
Lisa Pickarts, Sauk Prairie Hospital
Jennifer Justus, Mercy Walworth
Stephanie Kuschel, NIPARC
Sam Nepple, Mercyhealth
Ashley Vickers, Mercy Walworth
Asa Rowan, Community Health Systems of Beloit
Cassidy Walsh, Sauk Co Health Dept
Dave Larson, Madison VA Hospital
Cindy Fraker, Divine Savior
Susan Lorenz, Columbia County HHS
Joe Meagher, Dodge Cty EM
Brittany Bleich, Dodge/Watertown Public Health
John Rago, Baraboo EMS
Tanna McKeon, Green Cty EM
Kathy Johnson, Columbia Cty EM
Bob Bentley, Ingleside Manor
Aurielle Smith, UW Health
Alison Chouinard, Rock Cty Health Dept
RoAnn Warden, Green County Health Dept
Jim Acker, Watertown FD
Mike Lohmeier, SCWIHERC/UW Health
Bill Ritzer, Reedsburg Area Medical Center
Carmen Luther, Reedsburg Area Medical Center
Brian Allen, Southwest Health
Patrick Monckton, Southwest Health
Casi Frie, St Clare Baraboo
Cheryl Meyer, Marquardt Mgmt
Dan Williams, SCRTAC
Elisa Stott, Beaver Dam Community Hospital
Erin Hastert, Lafayette Cty Health Dept
Janene Clark, Dells Delton EMS
Jennifer Johnson, Marquardt Village
Josh Kowalke Reedsburg Area Ambulance Service
Kelly Lapp, St. Clare Baraboo
Lyle Kratochwill, Richland Hospital
Mandy McGowan, UnityPoint at Home
Michelle Hemp, UnityPoint
Sally Blackbourn, Memorial Hospital of Lafayette Cty
Sam LaMuro, Fort Health Care
Sister Faustina, St. Elizabeth Home
Suzanne Schreiner, Adams Cty Health Dept