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Why Assess Preparedness. Essential to future improvement Provides a common baseline with which we can assess all counties in the stateCritical for continued future funding from federal agencies. Assessment Benefits. Provides a clear site picture on where we standProvides clear direction on where we want to beAllows funding to be focused on areas of greatest needFolds into the Project Public Health Ready process.
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1. Health and Medical Assessment Measuring Preparedness of the Health and Medical Infrastructure
2. Why Assess Preparedness Essential to future improvement
Provides a common baseline with which we can assess all counties in the state
Critical for continued future funding from federal agencies
3. Assessment Benefits Provides a clear site picture on where we stand
Provides clear direction on where we want to be
Allows funding to be focused on areas of greatest need
Folds into the Project Public Health Ready process
4. Assessment Measures 22 assessment objectives were derived from various documents such as the Target Capabilities List, CDC, HRSA and DHS grant programs
Objectives were further broken down into 187 capability or capacity measures
5. Assessment Measures 2 Objectives and measures encompassed the entire health and medical infrastructure to include
Public Health
EMS
Hospitals
LRN
Emergency Management
Medical Examiner
6. Assessment Conduct Region 5 volunteered to pilot the first assessment for the state
Planners in each county were designated as the lead agents in coordinating the data collection effort
Training was provided to all planners to ensure the assessment was standardized
FDOH DEMO and RDSTF Co-Chairs informed all involved agencies in an effort to foster cooperation between agencies in the data collection effort
7. Assessment Conduct 2 The complete list was sub-divided by the planners into functional lists and provided to the appropriate agencies
Planners then contacted each agency and conducted interviews in an attempt to capture the true capability of the agency regarding each measure
Assessment results were forwarded to the state for scoring
8. Sample Assessment
9. Post Assessment On measures with multiple agency input the planner was the deciding factor in determining overall score
State compiled all the data and scheduled a meeting with all the planners
The data was normalized by comparison among counties to ensure we all interpreted the measures in the same way
10. Post Assessment 2 Each of the measures was reviewed and suggestions made to improve in order to reduce confusion and mis-interpretation
State then re-compiled the data to arrive at a final assessment for each county
11. Conclusion Assessment was very time-consuming
Enhanced relationships with partner agencies as linkages were made more apparent
Provides a clearer roadmap on actions needed to be taken
Allows us to tie disparate programs together into a cohesive whole
Allows us to focus on areas with greatest need
Future funding should now be able to be targeted to areas that will produce the greatest results