CYBER ALERT – BlueKeep Exploit Affecting Medical Devices
A newly identified exploit, known as BlueKeep, is being used by unauthorized actors to gain system level access to healthcare networks via unprotected medical devices. This exploit is similar to the Eternal Blue exploit used to spread the ransomware, WannaCry,…
October 2018 Full Coalition Meeting
Our fall 2018 Full Coalition meeting drew together western MA healthcare and public health stakeholders to offer disciplinary and HMCC-level updates, and partake of a program focusing on models of community paramedicine and mobile integrated health. For that main program,…
HMCC Leadership Elects New Officers
Jacqueline Johnson, Chief Operating Officer of Caring Health Center HMCC Steering Committee Chair
Stop the Bleed Training Kits Now Available
The Western MA HMCC now offers bleeding control training kits to western MA organizations to borrow, free of charge, when offering bleeding control trainings, provided the organization will not make a profit from the training. The kits, four in total,…
We’re Hiring!
The Franklin Regional Council of Governments seeks a well-rounded, professional, and intelligent candidate for a 30 hr/wk grant-funded position assisting with a variety of regional emergency preparedness activities in western Massachusetts.
What Is a Healthcare Coaliton?
Lori Upton, MS, Director of Regional Preparedness for the Southeast Texas Regional Advisory Council (SETRAC), speaks to the fundamental composition and purpose of healthcare coalitions. Ms. Upton joined the region 1 HMCC and our Region 2 counterparts this past spring…
HMCC Participates in Patient Evacuation Exercise
The Western MA Health & Medical Coordinating Coalition participated in a tabletop exercise on April 25th testing the MA Dept. of Public Health’s new Patient Placement Coordination Plan. Following federal requirements, the Department had to practice moving at least 20% of…
October 2017 Full Coalition Meeting
Our Full Coalition convening in the fall of 2017 was the venue in which we hosted JSI Research and Training, a contractor hired by the MA Department of Public Health to conduct regional Jurisdictional Risk Assessments in each Massachusetts HMCC…
April 2017 Full Coalition Meeting
Our April 2017 Full Coalition Meeting allowed for HMCC updates to our membership, and featured presentations from Jessica Collins, Executive Director of Partners for a Healthier Community (since renamed the Public Health Institute of Western Massachusetts) on “Foundations of Health Equity”, and Chad…