Advanced Disaster Life Support - 2026

Program allows participants to demonstrate competencies in mass casualty management. Essential training components include population scenarios discussion; mass casualty triage tabletop and situational training exercises; surge tabletop scenario for a health care facility; personal protective equipment skills performance and decontamination video review; casualty management in small groups with simulated scenarios; and emergency operations center situational training exercise.

1. Discuss the shift from individual- to population-based care in a disaster or public health emergency
2. Describe mass casualty triage in a simulated disaster scenario
3. Identify strategies to establish organizational and community surge capacity in a disaster or public health emergency
4. Review roles performed in an emergency operations center or incident command center established in response to a simulated mass casualty event
5. Discuss legal, regulatory, and ethical principles and practices to enable health professionals to provide crisis standards of care in a disaster or public health emergency
6. Identify personal protective equipment and decontamination measures appropriate for personnel and public health protection in a disaster or public health emergency
7. Discuss clinical skills for the management of mass casualties in simulated all-hazards scenarios

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (13.75 hours), Act 13 Patient Safety/Risk Management Credits (13.75 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (13.75 hours)

Thursday, September 10, 2026, 8:45 AM - Friday, September 11, 2026, 3:30 PM, York County Fire School 330 Emig Road, York, PA

Accreditation Statement: WellSpan Health is accredited by the Pennsylvania Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians. 

Credit Designation: WellSpan Health designates this Live Activity activity for a maximum of 13.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

All faculty participating in continuing medical education programs sponsored by WellSpan Health are expected to disclosure to the program audience whether they do or do not have any real or apparent conflict(s) of interest or other relationships related to the content of their presentation(s).

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

WellSpan Health CME adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity, including faculty, planners, reviewers or others are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with ineligible entities (commercial interests). All relevant conflicts of interest have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.