Clearinghouse of Medical and Public Health Preparedness Allocation, Skill Development, and Standards

Thursday February 18th, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Room:

Interactive

Session Number: 115

 

THIS SESSION HAS BEEN CANCELED

The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Health Affairs is currently collaborating with key stakeholders to develop the Clearinghouse of Medical and Public Health Preparedness Allocation, Skill Development, and Standards (CoMPASS), a mechanism designed to coordinate and align all -hazards public health and medical preparedness and response related standards, training, and grants within the federal government—consolidated into a single Web portal aligned by national priorities, target capabilities, and agency-specific preparedness missions. This will allow medical and public health communities to identify funding for preparedness and response activities, and provide easy access to a compendium of training, education, and standards via an efficient search vehicle.

Healthcare and Public Health Continuity of Operations Planning: Ensuring Sustainable Operations During a Disaster

Thursday February 18th, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Room: M302/303

Interactive

Session Number: 193

The effectiveness of health-related services is directly contingent on the available resources (medical countermeasures, human capital, supplies, linens, chemicals, biologics, etc.), technology, water, energy, and sustenance. Today’s emergency planners do not have effective methods for evaluating service criticality in order to define the optimal contingency framework for event driven sustainable operations. This session will educate individuals on the complex scope of operational continuity planning centric to the health setting, some practical approaches that are being leveraged across the sector, and the identification of potential tools that would be useful to characterizing and optimizing operational sustainability.

Factors Affecting Points of Dispensing Throughput; Where are All the Cars Going?

Thursday February 18th, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Room: International 3

Interactive

Session Number: 243

Bio-emergencies and bioterrorism play an increasingly important role in public health disaster preparedness planning. The timely dispensing of medication to the entire population in case of an emergency requires contingency plans to be thoroughly analyzed and evaluated. Tarrant County Public Health (TX) has contracted with the Center for Computational Epidemiology and Response Analysis at the University of North Texas to analyze traffic flow in and around its identified dispensing sites, as well as the demand placed on available parking areas. This session will discuss the methodology used for the evaluation of response scenarios involving the dispensing of medication using fixed point of dispensing locations. Participants will learn how this model will assist them in evaluating their emergency response plans.

Mass Dispensing at Retirement Communities: Hybrid Models that Work

Thursday February 18th, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Room: International 10

Interactive

Session Number: 264

Mass dispensing at a continuing care retirement Community can be a daunting and challenging task, due to a large number of staff and elderly residents. This session will give a first-hand account of Baltimore County’s success with a closed point of dispensing pilot program that employs a hybrid dispensing method to minimize the physical and emotional stress on staff and senior residents. This session will include lessons learned, helpful tips, and planning templates that can help other local planners approach senior campuses in their jurisdictions.

Developing a Comprehensive Training Program for Crisis Communication Planning

Thursday February 18th, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Room: A706/707

Interactive

Session Number: 273

This session will outline the components of a unique outreach effort to help hospitals and public health  and other agencies in Nebraska develop effective crisis communication plans. A history of the need for crisis communication plans will be presented along with the process used to develop the program. The work products from the training will also be presented.

Using Your Experience with H1N1 and Quality Improvement Tools to Review, Refresh, and Revitalize Your Pandemic Flu Plan

Thursday February 18th, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Room: International 8/9

Interactive

Session Number: 283

This presentation will show how to use eight quality improvement tools for determining the root causes of pandemic flu problem areas, dissecting and improving pandemic flu processes, and testing and retesting assumptions and processes. The presentation will also highlight a recent case study on H1N1 planning with quality improvement tools showing how a health department used the tools in a quality improvement process to find root causes and implement solutions around social distancing. Participants will be involved in two interactive exercises to help them understand the application of the quality improvement tools applied to pandemic flu planning.

Introduction to Emergency Preparedness Mapping: Open-Source Geographic Information Systems and Google Earth

Thursday February 18th, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Room: International 6/7

Interactive

Session Number: 313

Geographic visualization software and geographic information systems are increasingly becoming key parts of emergency preparedness, public health analysis, profiling, planning, logistics, and communications. This workshop will introduce participants to the core skills and concepts needed to navigate free, publicly available geographic software for the benefit of creating rich, locally-focused preparedness maps.

Field Epidemiology Training in Florida: Courses, Strike Teams, and Skills

Thursday February 18th, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Room: A703/704

Interactive

Session Number: 333

In a major public health event, the demands for epidemiology services may exceed the capacity of local agencies. The Florida Center for Public Health Preparedness developed a series of field epidemiology courses to create an epidemiology surge capacity. The on-site courses are competency-based, skills building, and interactive. They cover basic epidemiology concepts, interviewing skills, outbreak investigations, gastrointestinal illnesses, avian influenza, plague, and anthrax and each has table top exercises. This interactive session will present the collaborative process used to develop the framework for the epidemiology process, critical components of the three courses, standards used to certify employees to serve on the strike teams, and skills-building exercises used in the courses.

Protecting Critical Infrastructure in the Healthcare and Public Health Sector

Thursday February 18th, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Room: International C

Interactive

Session Number: 385

All jurisdictions contain certain assets and systems that are so vital that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on security, the economy, public health and safety, and/or the environment. The healthcare and public health (HPH) sector is an active participant in the Department of Defense Critical Infrastructure Protection’s effort to identify and protect these assets and systems. This session will describe public-private partnerships within the HPH sector and how they have contributed to a better understanding of critical infrastructure threats and measures to protect the sector. It will also highlight a unique approach to information sharing among private and public sector partners that the sector is currently using to better prepare for and respond to emergencies.

Understanding and Assessing Medical Reserve Corps Response Activities

Thursday February 18th, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Room: M301

Interactive

Session Number: 389

The Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) is a national network of local groups of volunteers that focus on improving the health, safety and resiliency of their communities through a variety of medical and public health activities, including but not limited to community disaster response. This session will primarily focus on addressing the roles and activities of MRC volunteers in preparation for a public health emergency. The target audience for this presentation includes MRC leaders and volunteers, emergency planners, researchers, and staff members of local health department and other response agencies potentially working with the MRC. All information collected from the session will be used to finalize a toolkit that MRC units can use for better data gathering and reporting following responses.

Virginia Department of Health Inquiry Center

Thursday February 18th, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Room: International 2

Interactive

Session Number: 396

The Virginia Department of Health (VDH) developed and implemented an inquiry center to support the local health departments with inquiries from the public. The VDH inquiry center provides a single point of contact for the general public and healthcare community to call and receive current and accurate information regarding a specific event or threat. It is also used to gather information from people that may have been affected by the event. Lessons learned from four implementations have been incorporated into tools, procedures, and protocols.

Building and Sustaining State and Local Preparedness Exercise After Action Reports Quality Improvement Efforts

Thursday February 18th, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Room: International B

Interactive

Session Number: 408

This session will present the results of a pilot after action report (AAR) analysis that may be replicated in a larger cohort to improve the ability to identify current public health preparedness exercise capabilities, strengths, and weaknesses across state and local public health departments.

What Type Are You?: Resource Typing for Emergency Support Function #8

Thursday February 18th, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Room: A601

Interactive

Session Number: 443

Resource typing is a means to create consistent definitions and requirements for individuals, teams, and equipment for deployments for mutual aid, and has been used by traditional first responders for years. Few public health resources have been typed using the Federal Emergency Management Agency-designated rubric. This session describes a groundbreaking public health and medical resource typing initiative sponsored by Department of Health and Human Services and promotes discussion of the future of resource typing for Essential Support Function #8, Public Health and Medical.