St. Joseph Medical Center changes to Penn State Health Alerts enterprise system Nov. 7
St. Joseph Medical Center’s emergency alert system will transition to the enterprise Everbridge system on Tuesday, Nov. 7. Penn State Health Alerts sends notifications to Penn State Health and Penn State College of Medicine on severe weather, IT and power outages, workplace violence and other incidents.
All information in the St. Joseph Medical Center emergency alert system has been moved to the new system. This change will not affect notifications for staff. However, the change will allow additional modes of notification receipt such as a mobile application. St. Joseph Medical Center’s independent Everbridge system will be discontinued on Nov. 7.
Some nonclinical focused emergency alerts, which have traditionally been communicated only by overhead page, will begin to be phased into the communications plan over the next few months. Some employees may receive targeted notifications based on their role if they support emergency management during unplanned events. The alerting will include use of plain language emergency codes instead of traditional color codes. This is part of a national initiative by health systems throughout the U.S. to reduce confusion and improve response time.
What you need to do
All Penn State Health and College of Medicine employees, faculty and students are automatically enrolled in Penn State Health Alerts with their work or student email. To ensure you receive emergency alerts:
- Install the Everbridge mobile app on your cell phone.
- Update your preferred contact information with your cell phone number, personal email address and work location.
Optimizing systems
The St. Joseph Medical Center emergency alert transition is part of Penn State Health’s optimization efforts to streamline system functions and advance clinical and health system integration.
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