GRQC Healthcare Forum - Safety in the Workplace
Thu, Dec 04
|Webinar
Join us on December 4!


Time & Location
Dec 04, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM EST
Webinar
About the Event
Join our free Zoom webinar to learn about Safety in the Workplace to help improve health and to support providers of care throughout the Rochester region. We will have insightful panelists from across the community, including Rochester Regional Health and UR Medicine. This event will bring value to all sectors, not just healthcare.
Program Agenda
12:00 – 12:05 pm Welcome and background for today’s forum
Robert Panzer, MD, Chair of the GRQC Health Care Forum Committee, GRQC Board Member and Professor of Medicine within the Department of Medicine and Public Health Sciences, UR Medicine
12:05 – 1:05 pm Speakers, Bios and Topics to be Covered
Tim Tull MBA CEM-IAEM Vice President of Safety, Security and Emergency Preparedness at Rochester Regional Health.
Topic: The Rochester Regional Health Peace Officer Program
Barbara Williams MS – Director of Crisis Specialist Team, Department of Psychiatry, URMC.
Topics: Trauma Informed Proactive Support, Crisis Stabilization Team, Behavior as Communication, Rational detachment and ways people feel in the moment, Crisis Prevention Institute training
Joe Hayflinger – Captain and Commanding Officer of Public Safety URMC. State of NY Municipal Police Training Graduate and FBI-LEEDA Law Enforcement Executive Leadership Development.
Topics: public safety, physical security upgrades at building entrances, crowd control, cross service line safety policies, unit safety plans, deployed footprint
Jaclyn Wilmarth RN MS – Associate Healthcare Safety Officer and MCIC Patient Safety Nurse.
Topics: psychological safety, violence assessment tool, YoUR Support
1:05 – 1:30 pm Panel Discussion / Q&A
PLEASE JOIN US FOR THIS ANNUAL GRQC WEBINAR
Date: Thursday, December 4
Time: 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. EST
Location: On-line, via Zoom
Cost: Free to GRQC members and non-members
Registration: Click below to register.
Can’t make it live but interested in the content? Register anyway: all registered attendees get a link to the recording after the session!
If you require special accommodation, please let us know by November 24.
Please direct questions to events@grqc.org.
Greater Rochester Quality Council events, programs and initiatives are supported in part by the Greater Rochester Chamber Foundation.
