This year the Healthcare Caucus has partnered with The Academic Medical Center Emergency Management Consortium (TAMEMC) to produce the Pre-Conference Symposium as a way to foster "Collaboration for the Future".

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About Academic Medical Centers

Sometimes referred to as the “crown jewels” of health care, academic medical centers are the essential core of medical education, medical research, and medical innovation and technology in the United States.  They provide specialized services, some via specialized hospitals and clinics each dedicated to specific types of patients and/or services.  Nearly 400 of the larger institutions belong to the Association of American Medical Colleges’ Council of Teaching Hospitals and Health Systems (COTH). COTH teaching hospitals train about 75 percent of residents yearly and provide more than 40 percent of all hospital charity care in the nation.

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About the Top Academic Medical Center Emergency Management Consortium

The Top Academic Medical Center Emergency Management Consortium (TAMCEMC or ‘the Coalition’”) is a groundbreaking initiative gathered the top practitioners from peer institutions across the nation for broad-ranging discussions on benchmarks and best practices in academic medical center emergency management and resilience

 

The following lists current participants in the TAMCEMC: 

• Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.

• Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio

• Johns Hopkins Medicine/ Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD

• Mass General/ Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

• UCSF Health/ UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, CA

• UCLA Health/ Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA

• New York-Presbyterian/ New York-Presbyterian Hospital, N.Y.

• Stanford Health Care/ Stanford Hospital, Stanford, Calif.

• Penn Medicine/ Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian, Philadelphia, PA

• BJC Healthcare/ Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO

• Northwestern Medicine/ Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL

• UPMC/ UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside, Pittsburgh, PA

• Duke Health/ Duke University Hospital, Durham, N.C.

• Mount Sinai Health System/ Mount Sinai Hospital, New York

• NYU Langone Health/ NYU Langone Medical Center, New York

• Brigham Health/ Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Mass

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The mission of the Coalition is to support member preparedness for, response to, and recovery from emergencies, mass casualty or catastrophic health events.  

 

By sharing lessons learned from training, exercises and real-world incidents along with technical knowledge and best practices, the Consortium increases our individual and collective resilience.  

 

Additional benefits include professional networking opportunities and joint participation in training, exercises and real-world incidents (where feasible) and collaborations with other entities responsible for healthcare preparedness, response, and recovery.

 

By strengthening the capability of this vanguard of healthcare emergency management practitioners, the Coalition seeks to improve the resilience of the national healthcare system

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