MEMO

TO: Missouri Society for Healthcare Facililty Management

FROM: Weldon Evans, MSHFM President

SUBJECT: MSHFM Meeting
10 a. m. Thursday, February 13
Boardroom
Missouri Hospital Association
4712 Country Club Drive
Jefferson City, Missouri

I hope everyone had a pleasant holiday season. Here at Bothwell Regional, January and February find us in the middle of our annual budget process. I’m sure we all find time in short supply this time of year. Since I doubt that our New Year’s resolutions included attending MSHFM membership meetings, I decided to try to find some speakers and demonstrations that would inspire you to drive to Jefferson City three times this year.

February Meeting

With the threat of nuclear, biological and chemical terrorism on everyone’s mind, or at least in the news, I have arranged for presenters from TVI, Fisher Safety and Drager to give us a demonstration of quick set-up (less than five minutes) decontamination shelters, responder suits, breathing apparatus and detection equipment. The decontamination shelter has a line for men, one for women and a non-ambulatory line, and comes complete with plumbing and runoff storage. There may even be government funds to cover the cost of the equipment.

May Meeting

Bruce W. Clements will be our speaker in May. Bruce is associate director of the Center for the Study of Bioterrorism, at St. Louis University, School of Public Health. I heard Bruce at the Bioterrorism Summit where he was the key speaker last November. His presentation was excellent. He will speak to us on the Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Threat in our morning session. In the afternoon, he will give us steps that facility managers can take to protect their hospitals should an event occur. I hoped to have Bruce in February, but he will be in Israel working with the government at that time. His presentation and our quarterly meeting will be May 22.

Attached are the February agenda.

I hope to see you all February 13.

WE/det