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1. Project Ready Update for Treasure Coast Counties Clint Sperber, M.P.A.
Public Health Preparedness Coordinator
Indian River, St. Lucie, Martin County Health Departments
3. PPHR Mission PPHR aims to prepare staff of local governmental public health agencies to respond and protect the publics health by addressing three key areas: emergency preparedness planning, workforce competency development, and demonstration of readiness through exercises/simulations/events
4. Work Plan The PPHR Team formulated three objectives based on the three goals for PPHR certification:
GOAL 1: Preparedness Planning
OBJECTIVE 1: PPHR Team will enhance All Hazards Emergency Operations Plan to include the measures outlined within the Individual LPHA Criteria & Checklist.
GOAL 2: Workforce Competency
OBJECTIVE 2: All employees will be able to demonstrate the nine emergency preparedness core competencies.
GOAL 3: Exercise Simulation/Event
OBJECTIVE 3: All employees will be able to demonstrate competency in bioterrorism and emergency readiness competencies by participating in exercises/simulations/events.
5. Timeline June 29, 2005 Invited to Participate
September 12 Statewide Kickoff Meeting
December 5 Meeting with NACCHO
May 31, 2006 Goals 2 & 3 Due
June 14, 2006 Goal 1 Due
6. Strategy Indian River Developed Project Public Health Ready Team
St. Lucie Used existing management group
Martin Developed Project Public Health Team
7. Task / Activities Review All-Hazards Plan
Assess integration of Regional Plan
Define functional roles for CHD staff
Determine location and accessibility of plan
Update employee orientation plan
Develop Exercise Plan
Develop meeting schedule with task completion
Identify needs assessment for staff Develop marketing materials for staff
Prepare, schedule and present introductory training
Conduct Needs Assessment
Identify available training / resources
Develop short and long term training plan
Develop evaluation tool for competencies
Evaluate Plan and Exercise
Prepare after action report
9. Train ICS 100 Equivalent
ICS 200 Equivalent
IS-700 and IS-800
Operational Public Health Preparedness Core Competency
I-400 and I-401
PLANS, LOGS, IC Trainings
10. Response Plans All-Hazards
EPI
Communications
Unknown Substances
SpNS
SNS COOP
CIRP
Mass Fatality
Behavioral Health
Pandemic Influenza
Environmental Surety
Roles/Responsibilities Matrix
11. Exercise
14. Indian River County Late Start Hurricane Wilma, Capabilities Assessment, Pandemic Influenza, CIRP
CHD Administrator Leadership
Region 5 Health and Medical Co-Chair
Proponent of Core Competency and ICS trainings
Relied on Okeechobees Experience
15. St. Lucie County Late Start Hurricane Wilma, Capabilities Assessment, Pandemic Influenza, CIRP
Planner called to duty in March 06
New Employee
Orange County CHD Assisted
Trak-It
Location of Plans
Post-Assessment
16. Martin County Late Start Hurricane Wilma, Capabilities Assessment, Pandemic Influenza, CIRP
Formed Project Ready Team now its the Emergency Planning Team
Orange County CHD reviewed Goal 1
Tasked members with responsibilities, set deadline for completion
18. Plan of Correction Pandemic Pandemonium and Hurricane Wilma
Lessons Learned vs. Observing Lesson
Exercise Plan (i.e. radiological, SNS)
Training
New employee orientation
Yearly preparedness training
Year round ICS
Plans
NIMS Compliant with Asset Typed teams (SpNS, EH, and EPI)
19. Recommendations Continue Buddy/Mentor System: Share list of CHDs that have completed certification process and are willing to mentor new CHDs throughout the process.
Continue Team Leader Orientation: Have an orientation for the Team Leaders of each new Project Ready group to explain Project Ready goals and objectives; and, lessons learned from CHDs that completed the process.
PPHR Criteria Checklist: Consider revising criteria to remove redundancy, especially in Goal II. Some of the criteria is too vague and needs to be better defined. Also recommend reformatting checklist into a Project Management matrix to make it a better tracking tool for the work group.
Emergency/Disaster Plans & Annexes: Very early in the process critique existing plans against criteria to identify gaps and how much needs to be done to bring plans up to PPHR standards.
Submission Checklist: Create a checklist of everything that must be submitted for certification.
20. The End Questions?