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Your customized Emergency Response Tabletop Exercise will enable the Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, Hospitals, Office of Emergency Services, First Responders and Law Enforcement personnel to:

• Increase their awareness of and refine Agency Disaster Plans.
• Understand individual and agency responsibilities and roles in responding to a public health threat or emergency.
• Identify issues to be addressed when coordinating efforts to handle bioterrorist threats or naturally occurring public health emergencies.
• Decrease the time needed to detect and report chemical, biological, radiological agents posing threats to the public's health.
• Gain an understanding of communication systems currently in place and explore alternatives to improve timeliness and redundancy.
• Decrease the time to identify causes, risk factors, and initiation of interventions and education for those affected by a threat to the public's health.
• Minimize the time needed to restore health services to pre-event levels.
• Provide sufficient follow-up care to those affected by threats to the public's health.
• Reduce the time needed to implement recommendations from after-action reports following a public health crisis.
• Assess strategies for coordinating the release of public health information locally and outside the county and practice communication tools and plans for dispersing public information.
• Improve working relationships amongst the Public Health Department and all applicable community partners.
• Review methods for determining who's been exposed and practice implementation of control measures.

Topics Discussed:

• Quarantine and isolation issues, legal constraints and strategies
• Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) requistioning
• SNS operations (staffing, training, security, monitoring)
• Health Agency Departmental Operations Center (DOC) organizational sturcture and development
• Coordination between Health Department DOC and Operational Area Emergency Operations Center (EOC)
• Operational level support of incident
• Effective and timely communication to requisite parties
• Furnishing the public with current, accurate information without inciting panic
• Coordination of communication amongst public health, hospitals and law enforcement personnel
• Identifying and obtaining necessary resources
• Post-mortem and burial risk reduction activities
• Mental health and social services needs
• Epidemiological investigation
• Caring for the ill, the exposed and the worried well
• Response to a communicable agent versus a non-communicable agent
• Education of first responders, health care workers and the general public