2008-107 Health Dept - Person County Health Dept for Public Health Emergency Preparedness

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OCHD Preparedness Agreement With Person County HD Fv nQ_n4 2. Develop and implement mutual aid agreements, as needed, to support NIMS com liant ublic health res onse e. ., local, re Tonal . 3. If there is an airborne infection isolation room (All) operated by the local health department, contact the PHRST to have the room evaluated at least annually to assess room ventilation and other All room parameters for compliance with the CDC's "Guidelines for Preventing the Transmission of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis in Health-Care Settin s, 2005". 4. Use and maintain an incident management system for local event and response activities (e.g., WebEOC, EM 2000). Where possible this should be coordinated and performed in conjunction with local emergency management and should be able to communicate with states stems i.e., WebEOC . 5. Develop and implement health and safety plans for public health responders to include (at a minimum) guidelines for personal protective equipment (PPE), proph taxis, mental health and personal safe 6. Develop and implement a community containment policy, in accordance with the pandemic influenza plan, b Ma 31, 2009. 7. Maintain current and updated 24/7/365 contact information for each Local Health Department. This information should include telephone numbers, pagers, and other information needed to alert the LHD to critical events and/or recommend needed emer enc res onses. 8. Conduct a minimum of two (2) exercises by May 31, 2009. It is anticipated that local public health will conduct or participate in numerous exercises during the grant year. Local health departments (LHDs) are, at a minimum, required to exercise the following components of their planning activities: • Exercise some aspect of your Quarantine and Isolation policy • Exercise some aspect of your Communications Plan Exercise SNS Ian 9. Conduct or participate significantly in a full-scale SNS exercise by May 31, 2009 (next grant year). This requirement has been fulfilled by both counties as of 11 /1 /2008. 10. Develop and implement a corrective action plan with 60 days after each drill or exercise based on recommendations from our After Action Re ort 11. Continue to implement the Division of Public health's National Incident Management System (NIMS) Workforce Training program. Maintain an updated database of trained individuals within each health department. Report the aggregate number of individuals trained both newt trained and total trained uarterl . 12. Develop and/or maintain an OSHA compliant respiratory protection program as offered by the PHRST by May 31, 2009. Coordinate and schedule annual fit testing. Staff participating in the program should at a minimum include environmental health staff, EPI Team staff, clinical staff, risk manager, and the public health preparedness coordinator. 13. Develop, implement and exercise a telecommunication plan to encompass the use the NC Medical Communications Network (NCMCN) in accordance with the PHP&R Telecommunication Plan. This plan will list the different types of communications that the counties have to communicate with the Regions and the State. It will include the t e of communication and who will be usin it. Page 2 of 7