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H1N1 & The Law: A PWW Educational Webinar Recording

This seminar will give you valuable and essential information and tools for dealing with the legal and personnel side of a flu outbreak if it hits your community. The key to effectively managing the unique “people issues” will be advance preparation. This seminar will give you tools to help your organization be ready.

Topics we discussed and questions that were answered include:

What steps can be taken to minimize the “fear of the unknown” among your EMS staff? (Yes, they may have the same fears that the public has about H1N1, especially if significant outbreaks occur)
Can you require EMS staff to be inoculated with the H1N1 vaccine?
What options are available for your agency if EMS staff members refuse the vaccine? Can you use a waiver form?
How should you handle staff members who refuse or don’t properly treat patients with active H1N1 symptoms?
Can EMS personnel be used to assist public health agencies in administering H1N1 vaccines and to help provide care during a significant outbreak? Should they?
What action steps can the organization take to help keep EMS staff healthy during an outbreak?
What about career staff members who wish to volunteer to assist public health agencies with an H1N1 outbreak while off duty?
What employment law considerations are there for staff members who call in or are out sick due to the virus?
Can you bypass normal hiring practices due an emergency staffing shortage? (What about impact on civil service, collective bargaining, etc.?)
What impact do absences due to an H1N1 outbreak have on the Family Medical Leave Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, and Workers’ Compensation Law?
Are there special rules in terms of number of hours/days an employee can work and how are those rules applied during a pandemic emergency?
What policies should we have in place to deal with the personnel issues that may come up such as: sick time use, staying away from work, extended medical leave, calling in additional personnel, and keeping personnel over their regular shift?
How should we deal with staff members who must stay home to care for family members during an H1N1 outbreak?

And much more…

The federal government estimates that nearly 2,000,000 Americans could be hospitalized in this winter’s H1N1 influenza pandemic, with estimated death rates now at three times the standard flu mortality rate. Is your EMS agency ready to deal with the tough legal issues that may arise during an H1N1 flu outbreak? For instance, can you require employees to get flu shots? Are you obligated to provide time off for employees to care for sick family members? What if you require your personnel to be on call during an outbreak - are you required to pay them for their on-call time? What should you do to minimize the impact of an outbreak on your own workplace?

An H1N1 outbreak will impact your EMS organization just as it would any other employer. But unlike traditional businesses, demand for EMS could go up astronomically during an outbreak, and the impact of this call volume increase may challenge your workforce way beyond the norm. You have to keep ambulances on the street with healthy field providers. And if you now have problems with maintaining adequate staffing just for the normal EMS response, imagine doing it with a sudden spike in call volume while at the same time your people are calling off sick.

Included with the webinar recording, you will receive supplemental policies that you may customize for your organization.

WHAT: H1N1 & The Law - Webinar Recording

A National EMS Law Webinar From PWW

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COST: $128.95

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H1N1 Webinar Recording
$128.95

HIPAA Breach Notification Audio Seminar Recording

The age of mandatory breach notification is imminent and the ambulance industry has little time to brace itself for the first wave of new HIPAA regulations. To help your organization get ready to comply with the mandatory breach notification regulations, PWW recently conducted a comprehensive webinar to discuss the background behind these new regulations, how to comply with them, and how you can actually lessen your breach notification requirements by properly securing your data.

Red Flag Rules Survival Kit for Ambulance Services

Ambulance services need to take immediate steps to implement an Identity Theft Prevention Program in time for the May 1, 2009 Red Flag Rules compliance deadline. Let the ambulance industry experts at Page, Wolfberg & Wirth guide you through the process. The Red Flag Rules Survival Kit for Ambulance Services provides a straightforward approach to compliance that will enable your ambulance service to be ready by the enforcement deadline.