Though she already had more than 20 years’ experience in emergency management when she took the Center for Domestic Preparedness’ (CDP’s) Framework for Healthcare Emergency Management (FRAME) Course in April, Lisa Screeton came out of the training with a greater understanding of what to expect in a mass casualty event.
“I wish every emergency manager throughout the U.S. could attend the course. We would be much better prepared as a nation if they did,” she said.
Screeton praised the course’s format, which she said felt like a conversation with the instructor. She also commended the makeup of the class, which included students from various types of organizations across the country.
“Everyone who was there brought something to the table which everyone else benefitted from,” she explained.
Screeton first became interested in emergency management when she watched as her father, a civil engineer, was routinely called up for disasters and emergencies in her home state of Arkansas. She later accepted a Harry S. Truman Scholarship to Harvard, where she earned her master’s degree in public administration with a focus on emergency management.
Screeton currently serves as the emergency preparedness and safety compliance manager for Cookeville Regional Medical Center in Tennessee, which she says is her ‘dream job’ because she gets to help the hospital’s many departments develop and exercise emergency plans.
Screeton also says she’s looking forward to her next opportunity to train at the CDP and she encourages her coworkers to attend training there as well.
“An informed workforce is a competent workforce,” she said.
