During the meeting we discussed the revised MOU that is getting approved be Mission Hospital. The MOU is between the responsible city and the medical facility. One of the key components is that if the city Emergency Manager is not available, the medical facility can activate the RACES Team on behalf of the city. OCRACES […]

During our January 15, 2025 meeting we discussed the revised focus of OCHEART from being an operational team of radio operators to a coordination and training group that supports hospital emergency communication teams, who are generally city RACES units.  There are three primary reasons for this change which was made during 2024. First and foremost, […]

In our May 2024 Zoom meeting, Dave Gorin  reviewed numerous “standard” ICS-213 message forms and compared their differences.  We discussed how the field values differ and how we can reconcile the different values.  OCHEART members could be asked to use any of these forms in a real life event. I Enjoy the replay.

OCHEART Team Zoom meeting for March 2024  includes an update on the  Team and a terrific overview of HIPAA from Duane Mariotti. We greatly appreciate Duane’s presentation as a training tool for all OCHEART members. Enjoy the replay.

OCHEART Team Zoom meeting for June 2022 includes an update on what our Leadership Team has been discussion, a conversation about the recent county wide Winlink exercise and some finding from our recent simplex net. We also welcomed Bob Smith from San Bernardino County who is working to create a hospital emergency communication support team […]

Thanks to everyone who attended our May  18, 2022 Team Zoom meeting. After recapping our May In-Person meeting this past Saturday, we discussed the status of some of our projects and discussed SEMS (Standardized Emergency Management System) that California uses during emergencies. SEMS is the prototype that FEMA used to model and create their NIMS […]

We will be holding our next in-person Team meeting on Saturday, May 14th from 0900 to Noon. Our meeting will working with Winlink (bring your radio, connection device and or cable, and your laptop) to ensure everyone can send and receive Winlink messages at least using a Telnet (internet) connection. Our goal is to have […]

Thanks to everyone who attended our February 16, 2022 Team Zoom meeting. We covered the status of some of our projects and discussed SEMS (Standardized Emergency Management System) that California uses during emergencies. SEMS is the prototype that FEMA used to model and create their NIMS structure. The two are very similar, but in California […]