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Partnering with Dallas County HHS to Protect your Employees from a Bioterrorism Event

Join the Bio-Defense Network PandemicPrep.org in a public-private partnership with Dallas County Health and Human Services to advance pandemic and bio-terrorism preparedness. Learn how closed Points of Dispensing (PODs) work and the benefits of membership. Protect your workforce and their families from bioterrorism threats.

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Partnering with Dallas County HHS to Protect your Employees from a Bioterrorism Event

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  1. Partnering with Dallas County HHS to Protect your Employees from a Bioterrorism Event Emily Gore Dallas County Health and Human Services Harlan Dolgin, JD, CBCP Bio-Defense Network

  2. PandemicPrep.Org • Grass roots organization began in 2006 • Mission to advance pandemic preparedness • Public Private Partnership • Businesses • Government/Public Health • Schools/Universities • Healthcare • Quarterly educational conferences since 2006 • Added Bio-Terrorism preparedness in 2010

  3. Both reasonably mild, only slightly worse than normal flu season History of Pandemics Three pandemics occurred in the 20th century • 1918 - estimated 40-50 million people died • 1957 • 1968 One pandemic so far in 21st century • 2009 – lower mortality rate than normal flu H5N1 most closely resembles flu of 1918

  4. Bioterrorism Threats • Anthrax release • Chernobyl in 1979 • Tularemia • Bubonic Plague • Small Pox • Ebola • Botulinum toxin • Viral Hemorrhagic Fever

  5. Consider this… “Any community that fails to prepare with the expectation that the federal government will, at the last moment, be able to come to the rescue will be tragically wrong.” -Michael Leavitt, Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services February 2006

  6. Cities Readiness Initiative (CRI) • Enhances preparedness in largest cities • Based on aerosolized Anthrax threat • Goal: 48-hour dispensing capability to 100% of the community

  7. The Mission: To provide lifesaving pharmaceuticals and medical supplies in the event of a natural disaster, chemical or bioterrorism attack in order to reduce morbidity and mortality.

  8. SNS Contents Antibiotics Chemical antidotes Vaccines Antivirals Antitoxins Life-support medications Intravenous administration supplies Airway maintenance supplies Medical/surgical items Items for radiation burns and blast Wound care supplies

  9. Requesting SNS Materials 1. 2. Need for Drugs and Medical Supplies Exceeds Local & State Resources State Requests Federal Assistance Discussion with key officials (HHS, DHS, CDC, State, etc) 4. 3. SNS Augments Local & State Medical Materiel Resources Federal Officials Deploy SNS Assets

  10. What is a POD?

  11. How Open PODs will Work Dallas County HHS

  12. Relieving the PressureWith Closed Points of Dispensing Dallas County HHS

  13. Procedure During an Activation • Closed POD employers will be notified • Medical standing order will be invoked • PODs will be activated • Medication will be received • Volunteers will get meds for their families • PODs will open to employees • Employees will take meds to their families

  14. Benefits of Membership • Life-saving medications when you need them the most • No cost, but medical professional on site is a good idea if possible • Protect your most important asset, your workforce and their families • Obvious employee benefit • Becomes part of your Continuity of Operations or business continuity program

  15. Dallas County Project Goals • Total population of Dallas County: • 2.4 million people • Initial goal of the Bio-Defense Network: • 100,000 residents • Future Goals - TBD

  16. St. Louis 2011 By the Numbers Open PODs Closed PODs

  17. St. Louis Closed PODs 723,365 County residents covered out of One Million

  18. St. Louis Participants • Express Scripts • Lindbergh School District • Parkway School District • Rockwood School District • Brentwood School District • All first responders • Hazelwood School District • Delmar Gardens • Lutheran Senior Services • Boeing • Washington University • All hospitals

  19. Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act • Enacted to alleviate liability concerns • Authorizes the Secretary to issue a declaration providing immunity from tort liability • Exception: willful misconduct • Different from, and (mostly) independent of, other emergency declarations

  20. Who is protected? • Covered persons • Manufacturers • Distributors • Program planners • “Qualified persons” (i.e. licensed) • The United States • Officials, agents, and employees of any of the above

  21. Program planners • State or local government agency (includes tribes) • State or local government employee • Or other person (private sector employer or community group) WHO…

  22. Program planners • Supervises or administers a program to administer, dispense, distribute, provide, or use a countermeasure, including persons who: • Establish requirements • Provide policy guidance • Supply technical or scientific advice or assistance • Provide a facility

  23. Program Requirements • Main local HQ in Dallas County • Willing to order and distribute 4,000 courses or more. This may include: • Employees • Household members (average of 3 per employee) • Tenants/Contractors/Students/Residents/Patients • Household members of the above

  24. Next Steps • Take materials back to your organization • Approve Memo of Understanding • Estimate number of courses needed and who will be company contacts • Identify facility/location for Closed POD • Send notification to Harlan or Emily • Wait for MOU and sign two when received • Assemble small planning workgroup Contact Harlan or Emily with any questions

  25. QuestionsHarlan Dolgin, Bio-Defense NetworkHDolgin@PandemicPrep.Org 314.304.4354Emily Gore, Dallas County HHSEmily.Gore@DallasCounty.Org972.692.2715

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