Surge Management PDF

Surge Management Medical Surge • Capability 10: • Emphasizes the need to define public health agency lead and support roles within medical surge operations • Emphasizes the need to identify and clarify the jurisdictional response role in medical surge operations based on jurisdictional role and in...

Surge Management Medical Surge • Capability 10: • Emphasizes the need to define public health agency lead and support roles within medical surge operations • Emphasizes the need to identify and clarify the jurisdictional response role in medical surge operations based on jurisdictional role and incident characteristics Nonpharmaceutical Interventions • Capability 11: • Focuses on collaboration by expanding suggested partners for implementing nonpharmaceutical interventions • Supports establishment of community reception center processes to enhance ability to respond to radiological and nuclear threats • Highlights management of mass gatherings (delay and cancel) based on allhazards scenarios Public Health Laboratory Testing • Capability 12: • Updates Laboratory Response Network (LRN) requirements • Incorporates LRN-chemical requirements • Prioritizes cooperation, coordination, and information sharing with LRN laboratories, other public laboratories, and jurisdictional sentinel laboratories Bio surveillance Public Health Surveillance and Epidemiological Investigation • Capability 13: • Increases alignment with public health surveillance and data strategies • Strengthens surveillance systems for persons in isolation or quarantine and persons placed under monitoring and movement protocols • Emphasizes syndromic surveillance and data collection to improve situation awareness and responsiveness to hazardous events and disease outbreaks, for example, participation in the CDC’s National Syndromic Surveillance Program BioSense Platform Responder Safety and Health • Capability 14: • Incorporates the need to securely manage responder data • Improves responder on-site management, tracking, in-processing, and outprocessing • Reprioritizes hierarchy of control and promotes the alignment of responder safety and health control measures, for example, personal protective equipment, with jurisdictional risk assessment findings Volunteer Management • Capability 15: • Addresses the need to monitor volunteer safety, risks, and actions during and after an incident • Strengthens and clarifies volunteer eligibility considerations, such as medical, physical, and emotional health, during the volunteer selection process • Promotes use of Emergency Responder Health Monitoring and Surveillance Thematic Understanding National Preparedness System components