Emergency Preparedness Conference State & Tribe’s All-Hazard and Pandemic Influenza Planning Efforts Mike Harryman Emergency Preparedness Director Oregon Public Health Division August 9, 2007

Objectives Provide update in State and Tribe’s preparedness activities Overview of Department of Human Services Vulnerable Population Task Force (VP/TF) Next Steps

Preparedness Activities FY05 Conducted training assessments All Tribe’s are on Health Alert Network (HAN) Three Tribe’s participated in the PandOrA exercise Nov- 06 FY06 Followed up with contract to NWAIHB FY06 Followed up with contracts to all nine Tribes Current contracts with six Tribe’s to complete a Health & Medical annex and PanFlu plan FY06 Conducted PanFlu assessments FY06 Conducted All- Capacity assessments LHD/HPP Boards

DHS-VP/TF Purpose: Emergency preparedness plans for vulnerable populations by stakeholders in local communities, and State emergency preparedness plans for vulnerable populations served by the Department of Human Services Planning phase for project has taken six months Preparation phase thru Sep-07 Data, planning models, best practices and other materials & resources will be collected that will assist local stakeholders and state agency staff to develop their local & state emergency plans Planning templates will be developed to lead local stakeholders through a decision-making process in preparedness planning Training, support and other types of assistance will be made available to local & state level stakeholders

DHS-VP/TF The Operational phase projected to go thru March 2008 Project staff and Work Group members will draft and edit state plans Local one-day workshops will be setup to go over implementation for each DHS district (formerly called Service Delivery Area’s) in the state involving Local stakeholders, County emergency managers, County health departments planners, Tribes DHS state staff PHEP Preparedness staff, and Hospital Preparedness grant coordinators Project closeout will take 1.5 months Final products are completed and arrangements are made to transfer VP emergency preparedness activities to a regular program Projective end date: May 2008

Next Steps FY07 CDC & HPP grant activities Updating Tribal contracts to reflect to going activities State & HPP regions complete sub-capabilities Tier activities by 8/8/08 Pan Flu (both CDC & HPP) Exercises State, regional, county Training ICS

Next Steps Waiting for CDC guidance for FY07 Priority projects: Ongoing: HAN, HOSCAP, ESAR-VHP, PH radio PIO/JIC HVA’s Top Official Exercise (Oct 15-20) Chemical/RAD, Behavioral Health, CD/Epi and Quake/Tsunami planning & response

FY07 Hospital Preparedness Program Level-One Capabilities  Interoperable communications  Bed tracking system  Emergency systems for advance registration volunteer health professionals (ESAR-VHP)  Fatality management plans  Hospital evacuation plans Level-Two Capabilities  alternate care sites (ACS)  mobile medical assets  pharmaceutical caches  personal protective equipment (PPE)  decontamination

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