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VORTTX Training and Testing strives to be the premier provider of virtual staff training programs for long-term healthcare providers and other regulated industries.


Long-term healthcare facilities are required by State and Federal licensing to train all staff on specific emergency response protocols and prove their proficiency.

There is not a standard staff training program for long-term healthcare facility emergency response protocols. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) provides a complex (280 page) workbook of rules, regulations, basic outlines and worksheets for recording training responses only.


State and Federal Regulations:

• Every new long-term healthcare facility employee must be oriented and competent with emergency procedures on their first day of employment.

• In addition, every department is required participate in a fire drill a minimum of once every quarter. Each department has different requirements of in-service (on the job training) each month and year.

• Annually each facility has to certify to surveyors (state or federal inspectors) that every staff member is

competent in safety (specifically fire).


2016 FEMA Reporting:

• Federal regulations require that Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing homes have written emergency plans and provide employees with emergency preparedness training.

• Most nursing homes nationwide met Federal requirements for written emergency plans and preparedness training. However, gaps in nursing home preparedness and response were found. Emergency plans lacked relevant information—including only about half of the tasks on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services checklist.


2016 FEMA Reporting:

• Federal regulations state that facilities must “train all employees in emergency procedures when they begin to work in the facility, periodically review the procedures with existing staff, and carry out unannounced staff drills using those procedures.”


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The only emergency response training aid currently available for facility operations comes from the CDC Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response Long-term, Acute and Chronic Care as a (280 page Word doc.) action plan Long-Term, Home Health, and Hospice Care Planning Guide for Public Health Emergencies.


CDC Action Plan

• Word Doc.

• Printed, then filled out by hand, hard copy stored

• No interaction

• No variables

• No summary report


VORTTX Training and Testing

Virtual Online Tabletop Exercises for Healthcare Facilities.

A better way to train facility staff!

• More captivating than traditional tabletop exercises.

• Less research, preparation and reporting requirements for HR or Safety Managers.

• Purchase, set up and begin using in the same day.

• Less expensive than 3rd party facilitators.

• Reports generated prove competency of staff.


The VORTTX system is a highly effective and efficient way to train and test facility staff in groups, teams or individual basis.

The VORTTX Training and Testing System was developed by Tadd Weese, Director of Facilities Management at Saint Simeon’s in Tulsa, OK. As a part of his ongoing mission to make Saint Simeon’s the safest place, Weese and his business partner Kyle Golding of The Golding Group, created VORTTX to allow any community, facility or campus to utilize his training and meet and exceed state and federal training and preparation guidelines.


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• Online tool

• Begin training with zero preparation

• Shift and time of day specific scenarios


• 100% Interactive

• 3 levels of situational variables

• Chose variable or have VORTTX chose for you

• Available 24/7/365 for use by all shifts, regardless of day, time or other scheduling issues.


• Option for noting needed changes to existing action plan

• Summary report emailed upon completion


“I did not seek out a career in this profession, but I found myself here anyway. When I stopped to really look at what it was all about, I completely bought into the Mission of Saint Simeon’s. I want to take that passion for creating the safest places, and most prepared staff to every place someone’s parents, grandparent, friends or other loved ones may find themselves living. This is the purpose of VORTTX Training and we take it very seriously.”

VORTTX Co-Founder Tadd Weese


• Scenario training changes variables, situations and outcomes based on the choices of staff for an evolving experience.

• 3,000+ potential combinations, staff will not be disengaged by repeating situations or boring presentations.

• Train and test facility staff in groups, teams or individual basis. Improve staff preparation while lowering training cost and scheduling hassles.


• VORTTX is designed to be the most user-friendly variable outcome training solution available.

• Multi-part, multi-level scenarios provide a unique experience every time.

• VORTTX training utilizes shift, time-of-day and real world complications to present robust training and testing.


Emergency Response Training Needs/Concerns of Long-Term Healthcare Facilities

1. Local, state and Federal license compliance (reporting, cost saving).

2. Well-trained staff creates less liability (cost saving).


Additional Benefits of Effective Emergency Response Training

3. Well-trained staff is a best practice marketing point (selling, point, client attraction).

4. Well-trained staff is easier to retain, less turnover and less additional training (cost saving).

5. End report shows areas that need additional training with no guessing or wasted effort (efficiency, cost reduction, liability).


VORTTX Virtual Tabletop Exercise is the smart, simple way to train (or prepare) facility staff for emergency response situations.

• Situational based testing with variable scenarios determined by answers given.

• Prove training and testing while learning staff deficiency or additional training needs.

• More efficient delivery method (online, variable response) than in-person (expensive) third party facilitator and more effective than written (no variables) exams.


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I’ve been lucky enough to have been involved in disaster/emergency preparedness response and training for over 35 years. My background ranges from pre-hospital, private clinic, hospital to a county medical emergency operations center. As coordinator of the Medical Emergency Operations Center (MERC) for 10 years, it was my job to work with all facets of planning, exercises and preparedness for those were involved with and worked the medical system of Tulsa County. My current position, in one of the largest volunteer organizations in the world, I am over disaster preparedness, response, training, exercises, planning for 17 counties in Oklahoma.

I’ve had the privilege to participate, facilitate and create numerous exercises and trainings in my life. I’ve been able to see and use countless training tools and systems. VORTTX is one of the most useful tools I have ever used. User friendly, pertinent, intuitive and the feedback is instantaneous. I can without a shadow of a doubt, HIGHLY recommend this training and exercise tool for any agency, facility or system.

Johnnie MunnDisaster Program Specialist

Tulsa, OK


100 employees or less

30 Training Sessions Per

Month

$5-$10 per employee

$500



Month

Only $5 per employee

$1,250



Month

Less than $4 per employee

$2,000

500 employees or more

Unlimited Usage Per

Month

Best Value Available

$2,500

One year membership

Volume discounts available for owners of multiple facilities


VORTTX is designed to be the most user-friendly variable outcome training solution available. Multi-part, multi-level scenarios provide a unique experience every time. VORTTX training utilizes shift, time-of-day and real world complications to present robust training and testing opportunities.

VORTTX is the only online, automated, variable outcome staff training system specifically designed for long-term healthcare facilities available.


Tadd Weese is the Director of Facilities Management at Saint Simeon’s in Tulsa, OK – a Non-Profit Long Term Care Community. Weese’s responsibilities include, Building and Grounds, Security, Housekeeping, Laundry, Maintenance, Purchasing, I.T. and Chairman of the Safety Committee. Weese is involved in, if not the originator of, many long term planning projects both contracted or performed by his staff. Weese is also a licensed Nursing Home Administrator in the Sate of Oklahoma, and acts in that capacity as needed.

In his tenure at Saint Simeon’s, Weese has worked to help make the facility the safest place to live, work or visit and has integrated his campus into the Tulsa County Emergency Medical Response Center and Regional Medical Planning Group. Saint Simeon is the only Long Term Community in Tulsa County that is active with this valuable organization. Weese has garnered recognition, on the local and national

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scale, with the manner in which he trains and drills the staff at Saint Simeon’s and is often consulted by other communities and Emergency

coordinators for his input and guidance.


Kyle Golding is born entrepreneur who stated his first business as a teenager. With 30 years of experience building, owning and operating multiple businesses, he has positioned, marketed and managed artist, musicians, start-ups, corporations and non-profits to local, national and worldwide success.

VORTTX Training was developed by The Golding Group, a Oklahoma City business development think tank of which Kyle Golding is CEO, in partnership with VORTTX co-owner Tadd Weese. Golding is a brand builder who also owns Share Furniture, is in partnership at 1219 Creative Co-Work Space + Art Gallery and investments in multiple start-ups/venture projects.

Golding has a Communications B.A. from Oklahoma City University (double major: Public Relations and Radio/Television/Film Broadcasting).

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• 67,000 regulated long-term care services providers facilities

• 15,600 Nursing Homes

• The number of people using nursing facilities, alternative residential care places, or home care services is projected to increase from 15 million in 2000 to 27 million in 2050 (HHS, 2003). Most of this increase will be due to growth in the older adult population who need such services (HHS, 2003).

• The number of Americans over age 65 is projected to more than double from 40.2 million in 2010 to 88.5 million in 2050 (Vincent & Velkoff, 2010).

• Those aged 85 and over are projected to almost triple, from 6.3 million in 2015 to 17.9 million in 2050 and will account for 4.5% of the total population (United States Census Bureau, 2012).


VORTTX Launch Plan

• Private BETA of the fully operational VORTTX Training system via vorttx.com began Summer 2016.

• Public BETA began in November 2016 in conjunction with the LeadingAge Annual Meeting and Expo in Indianapolis, IN.

• Full public release at LeadingAge Oklahoma Conference on March 7-8th 2017 in Midwest City, OK.

• Currently attempting to certify VORTTX training for Professional Continuing Education credits.

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