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Updated ED recommendations AND an updated checklist are now available, just ahead of the upcoming March 3 assessment! Se...
02/25/2026

Updated ED recommendations AND an updated checklist are now available, just ahead of the upcoming March 3 assessment! See what’s new: https://ow.ly/iUop50Ym9VH

EMSC Innovation and Improvement Center

📢 Episode 2 of the Ready. Prep. Go! Season 3 Storm Series has arrived! Social media influencer Dr. Beachgem, a pediatric...
02/24/2026

📢 Episode 2 of the Ready. Prep. Go! Season 3 Storm Series has arrived! Social media influencer Dr. Beachgem, a pediatric emergency physician and disaster response expert, and Travis Witt, Director of Safety and Emergency Management at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital, share how Hurricane Milton pummeled St. Petersburg shortly after Helene. While sorting out fuel shortages, power outages, and fragile hospital infrastructures, frontline staff were also managing personal recovery efforts, like flooded homes.

Available where you get your podcasts or listen here: https://ow.ly/kGZI50Yl1RC

What’s new in the 2026 ED Pediatric Readiness joint guidelines and therefore in the upcoming national assessment? Scroll...
02/19/2026

What’s new in the 2026 ED Pediatric Readiness joint guidelines and therefore in the upcoming national assessment? Scroll through to see some areas of increased emphasis → or read the guidelines here: https://ow.ly/hahC50YisNx

EMSC Innovation and Improvement Center

As the 2025-2026 influenza season unfolds, influenza-associated encephalopathy remains a serious and still incompletely ...
02/17/2026

As the 2025-2026 influenza season unfolds, influenza-associated encephalopathy remains a serious and still incompletely understood risk for children.

To support pediatric clinicians and public health practitioners, PPN has updated its Influenza-Associated Encephalopathy or Encephalitis (IAE) and Acute Necrotizing Encephalopathy (ANE) resource to help guide patient care. The update includes critical information on IAE and ANE case reporting, clinical characteristics of ANE, and more.

Access now: https://ow.ly/fY4M50YhnxQ

A 2021 National Pediatric Readiness Project survey found that fewer than half of U.S. hospitals include children’s needs...
02/16/2026

A 2021 National Pediatric Readiness Project survey found that fewer than half of U.S. hospitals include children’s needs in their disaster plans. That gap is exactly what drives PPN Co-PI Charles Macias, MD, MPH, to help build stronger systems that support hospitals in pediatric readiness.

Dr. Macias recently authored an article originally published in University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital's publication “Innovations in Pediatrics” highlighting the critical work of PPN and its partners, including Pediatric Disaster Centers of Excellence and the EMSC Innovation and Improvement Center.

Read it here: https://pedspandemicnetwork.org/news/uh-rainbow-helping-to-make-americas-kids-more-disaster-resistant/

02/12/2026

Flu season is here and this year it’s hitting kids especially hard. Influenza isn’t just a bad cold. Danielle Zerr, MD discusses how it can lead to serious illness, hospitalization, and complications in children, even those who were previously healthy. As of February 2, 2026, there have been 52 pediatric deaths due to influenza this year.

The flu vaccine remains one of the best tools we have to protect kids and reduce severe outcomes. Talk to your child’s healthcare provider about flu vaccination - it’s not too late!

For more flu resources for Families & Caregivers, visit the link in our bio.

Join PPN for a learning collaborative to equip emergency medicine clinicians with the knowledge, skills, and strategies ...
02/12/2026

Join PPN for a learning collaborative to equip emergency medicine clinicians with the knowledge, skills, and strategies to respond to the mental health impacts of disasters on kids and families.

Register here https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/3b9aec5615a949a587420a6bd0ce3f94 for the first session on February 25, 2026 at 12 pm ET.

📢 Season 3 of Ready. Prep. Go! podcast is here! Episode 1 drops into St. Petersburg as Hurricane Helene shatters expecta...
02/10/2026

📢 Season 3 of Ready. Prep. Go! podcast is here!

Episode 1 drops into St. Petersburg as Hurricane Helene shatters expectations with catastrophic flooding instead of another near miss.

Social media influencer Dr. Beachgem, a pediatric emergency physician and disaster response expert, shares what it means to serve on the front lines while her own home floods, alongside Travis Witt, Director of Safety and Emergency Management at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, facing the fight to keep a children’s hospital running as staff homes are damaged.

Available where you get your podcasts or listen here: https://pedspandemicnetwork.org/ready-prep-go/the-water-came-in/

PPN’s Disaster Response Collaborative (DRC) focus area on triage, infection control, and decontamination recently hosted...
02/09/2026

PPN’s Disaster Response Collaborative (DRC) focus area on triage, infection control, and decontamination recently hosted a session titled “Are You Ready? Strengthening Hospital Readiness for Respiratory Illness Surges.”

The session featured presentations from Larry Kociolek, MD, MSCI, SHEA, FPIDS; Nicolaus Glomb, MD, MPH, FAAP; and Danielle Zerr, MD, MPH, FPIDS, who shared perspectives from infectious diseases, the emergency department, and a real-world case study.

To view the recording, visit: https://youtu.be/grAkXAjsnSk?si=JBTpYutK1W9qtXDH

Learn about the life-saving potential and low cost of Pediatric Readiness, what’s new in the recently updated guidelines...
02/06/2026

Learn about the life-saving potential and low cost of Pediatric Readiness, what’s new in the recently updated guidelines, and how to prepare for the 2026 assessment. To learn more visi https://ow.ly/5ltm50YanWM EMSC Innovation and Improvement Center

PPN’s new resource for Burn Care for Healthcare Providers features evidence-informed tools and educational resources des...
02/05/2026

PPN’s new resource for Burn Care for Healthcare Providers features evidence-informed tools and educational resources designed to support healthcare providers in burn wound evaluation, emergency response planning, and injury pattern recognition.

Explore tools below to strengthen burn assessment, improve readiness for high-acuity events, and more: https://ow.ly/rFWK50Y9CmC

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