PUBLIC HEALTH administrators can transform monumental unique challenges to “rapid response” opportunities. Think: Hurricanes Florence and Michael, the California wildfires, the mysterious polio-like illness, the opioid epidemic, mass shootings, and immigrant family separation.

December 4, 2018

You are the head of the Department of Public Health Sciences, The University of Texas at El Paso and have been “volunteered” to develop a Rapid Response “shadow” licensing program for the Tornillo, Texas detention camp housing 2300 teens. INTRODUCTION Statement from the American Public Health Association and Trust for America’s Health “As public health

“…really targeting the depth of the opioid epidemic would require an infusion of federal dollars on par with the more than $20 billion a year spent on HIV/AIDs.”

November 19, 2018

“Subdued and on-script, President Donald Trump struck a bipartisan tone as he signed sweeping legislation Wednesday to combat the opioid epidemic, an issue that has animated his effort to support Republican midterm candidates. Discussing a crisis affecting urban centers as well as rural communities that supported his election, Trump touted the measure as a bipartisan

Tomorrow morning’s Emergency Preparedness meeting (just scheduled for 8AM)

October 28, 2018

October 28, 2018 FROM: CEO, Northern New Jersey Regional Medical Center TO: SVPs SUBJECT: Tomorrow morning’s Preparedness meeting (just scheduled for 8AM) Over the last few days there has been a convergence of preparedness challenges. We need to set priorities, confirm assignments, allocate resources, initiate communications plan. 1. NOR’EASTER/ FLOODING. Assessment. Review SuperStorm Sandy rapid

“The youngest child to come before the bench in federal immigration courtroom No. 14 was so small she had to be lifted into the chair…

October 15, 2018

PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS CREATED BY TRUMP ADMINISTRATION FAMILY SEPARATION POLICY “Even the judge in her black robes breathed a soft “aww” as her latest case perched on the brown leather. Her feet stuck out from the seat in small gray sneakers, her legs too short to dangle. Her fists were stuffed under her knees. As

DON’T DEPEND ON ANYONE ELSE TO BRING THE COFFEE! & other Lessons Learned as a junior hospital CEO back in the day….

October 10, 2018

“It is fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” – Bill Gates Vignette 1 One summer Friday early afternoon I was in my car heading off for the weekend when the New Jersey Commissioner of Health called and told me he was closing the Jersey City Medical

HOW ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS ADDRESS CONFLICTS-OF-INTEREST

September 28, 2018

ASSIGNMENT: Profile the University of Maryland Medical System COI challenge. DISCLOSURE. I am a member and Interim Chairman of the IRB* at Stevens Institute of Technology. “There are many varieties of conflicts of interest, and they appear in different settings and across all disciplines. While conflicts of interest apply to a “wide range of behaviors

Confidential September 11, 2001 LESSONS LEARNED memorandum by hospital CEO Jonathan Metsch goes “viral” and becomes a New Jersey gubernatorial campaign issue

September 23, 2018

Previously posted was an op-ed describing Jersey City Medical Center’s “Rapid Response” role after the attack on the World Trade Center towers. Military helicopters and jets were overhead, as President Bush was getting ready to leave. The plumes of smoke from the World Trade Center were still billowing skyward. https://network.aupha.org/communities/community-home/digestviewer/viewthread?MessageKey=d375f16c-d2ff-4d54-b93f-d33c3c6330b3&CommunityKey=7457c476-880a-47b2-ad0b-8677bba9e9e4&tab=digestviewer#bmd375f16c-d2ff-4d54-b93f-d33c3c6330b3 Since Jersey City Medical Center