The objective of
ABCHD’s Public Health Preparedness Program is to
ensure Public Health Preparedness and establish
the capability to respond effectively to
bioterrorism, other outbreaks of infectious
disease, public health threats, and emergencies.
Responsibilities include the following:
Assessment and Planning
- Development of
new and assessments of existing plans,
procedures, staff, equipment, and resources.
- Establish
community collaboration with local emergency
response agencies to ensure local preparedness
efforts are complete.
- Exercise
Emergency Response Plans on a local, regional,
and state level.
Communications and Information Technology
- Maintain
communications (telephone, fax, email and
satellite) with healthcare providers, hospitals,
law enforcement, emergency response personnel,
and other health departments to ensure rapid
dissemination of information.
Education and
Training
- Provide training
to key health personnel who are tasked to
respond to public health emergencies.
- Coordinate
education and training with other health and
emergency agencies.
- Provide training
to community members who volunteer to work in
Mass Dispensing/Vaccination Clinics.
- Organize and
participate in emergency drills.
Risk
Communication
- Ensure that
health/risk information is readily available to
the public during a terrorist event or natural
disaster.
- Maintain
relationships with various media outlets to
ensure rapid dissemination of information.
Contact:
Brian Elswick
606-329-9444 ext.2236
BrianS.Elswick@ky.gov
http://fema.gov/index.shtm
http://www.nicsinfo.org
Volunteer
Management Medical
Reserve Corps (MRC)
- Inform and
recruit community volunteers who would be asked
to work Mass Dispensing/Vaccination Clinics in
response to a bioterrorism attack, pandemic, or
a crisis within our community.
The MRC is a
national organization that pre-identifies and
trains health care and other community members for
a disaster before there is a need. The mission is
to provide additional manpower to increase the
effectiveness of public health in the event of a
crisis and improve the health and safety of our
community be organizing and utilizing public
health, medical and other volunteers.
The MRC includes medical, public health, emergency
responders both practicing and retired and also
non-medical community members with an interest in
becoming trained to crisis in public health
emergencies.
The Ashland-Boyd County Catlettsburg MRC through
the health department offers free training on
current health topics and opportunities to help
your community during times of crisis due to both
manmade and natural disasters.
Contact:
Renee Hammond
606-329-9444 ext. 2235
Renee.Hammond@ky.gov
www.medicalreservecorps.gov
Surveillance and Epidemiology
Epidemiology Department
- ABCHD staff
investigates reportable diseases.
- Utilize several
surveillance programs to monitor and rapidly
detect unusual disease activity within Boyd
County.
- ABCHD maintains
a trained Epidemiology Rapid Response Team (ERRT)
of health professionals across several Public
Health disciplines to respond during a disaster
or emergency situation.
Contact:
Kristy Bolen
606-329-9444 ext. 2237
KristyM.Bolen@ky.gov
www.cdc.gov
http://chfs.ky.gov/dph
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