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2017 IACTE Pre-Conference Tours Announced

Illinois Emergency Management Agency (IEMA)
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
12:30-3:30 p.m.

Registration Required-Take a tour of Illinois Emergency Management Agency (IEMA).  The responsibility of IEMA is to better prepare the State of Illinois for natural, manmade or technological disasters, hazards, or acts of terrorism. Our goal is a "better prepared state." IEMA coordinates the State's disaster mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery programs and activities, functions as the State Emergency Response Commission, and maintains a 24-hour Communication Center and State Emergency Operations Center (SEOC). The SEOC acts as lead in crisis/consequence management response and operations to notify, activate, deploy and employ state resources in response to any threat or act of terrorism. IEMA assists local governments with multi-hazard emergency operations plans and maintains the Illinois Emergency Operations Plan. 

Meet in the DoubleTree lobby by 12:30 p.m.

 

Memorial Center for Learning and Innovation
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
1:00-3:30 p.m. 

Registration Required 

Take a tour of The Simulation Center which features 10 unique simulated learning environments in 16,000 square feet on the MCLI’s third floor. These learning environments include a nurse’s station, patient room, operating room, an office and an exam room modeled after Memorial Physician Services and ExpressCare rooms. Many of the rooms have simulated patients that can be programmed with a wide variety of symptoms.

An intensive care room serves a dual purpose as a labor and delivery room; clinicians can run mock scenarios on a simulated patient that can give birth seven different ways. Two rooms – a trauma bay and a treatment room – simulate an emergency department setting.

The Simulation Center also has a mock residence with a kitchen, living room, bedroom and bathroom in 1,300 square feet; the area, which has half walls for easy observation, can be used for training by ambulance providers, firefighters and home service and hospice caregivers.

A high-tech ambulance simulator, which mimics on-the-road movement, allows emergency medical technicians to train as if they’re transporting patients to the hospital.

Three simulations are scheduled for February 15, 2017.  There will be time for follow up discussion and a presentation by the Workforce Development Consultant.

Meet in the Doubletree Lobby at 1:00.