Originally from St John, NB where her father is an officer with the Fire Dept, Angela began her career as an ACLS street medic. Angela has 18 years experience in healthcare, operations, and disaster management with several years leading emergency management & business continuity in Boston-based healthcare systems and is one of the co-founders and a managing partner at Wakefield Brunswick LLC.
Throughout her career she has led program management, strategic planning, grant management and education development in emergency management for over 20 hospitals. She has served as an international healthcare disaster preparedness expert for the Prevention Consortium and is currently developing the international BCP for Healthcare curriculum for DRII. She has worked with Boston University, UMASS Boston and Cambridge College, on curriculum development, research and instruction in emergency management and business continuity.
Angela has worked with hospitals and health systems to provide them with the selection of services needed to be prepared for emergencies and disasters in accordance with the most recent Joint Commission Emergency Preparedness Standards and Federal ASPR Grant. Her experience in pandemic planning includes cluster based planning for 17 hospitals in Southeast Massachusetts and their surrounds cities and towns, Ascension Health pandemic assessment for their hospitals across multiple states and their 30 health systems, and hospital based planning for a six hospital healthcare system. Their plans include emergency dispensing procedures, alternate care and triage operations as well as human resource considerations.
Redesigning Hospital Emergency Operations Plans to comply with 2009 Joint Commission Emergency Management Standards with HICS IV and Business Continuity Planning integration. Facilitating a collaborative and coherent approach with a large segment of state and tribal officials to identify and prioritize concerns relating to public health emergencies and disasters and identify issues of significance to women, medically fragile, and vulnerable populations.
Developed and managed emergency management and business continuity corporate office that supported business, IT, clinical and research departments in the development of their plans. Worked closely with several public safety and healthcare facilities on homeland security considerations within the Boston UASI region.