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Preparedness

Preparedness. What it’s all about. KDPH Preparedness Branch. Provides preparedness guidance and support to local health department staff Works with state partners to assure preparedness plans are in place The Branch is divided into two sections: Administration and Program Evaluation Section

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Preparedness

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  1. Preparedness What it’s all about

  2. KDPH Preparedness Branch • Provides preparedness guidance and support to local health department staff • Works with state partners to assure preparedness plans are in place • The Branch is divided into two sections: • Administration and Program Evaluation Section • Health and Medical Emergency Operations Section

  3. Responses • Preparedness staff respond to Public Health Emergencies including but not limited to: • Floods • Severe Weather • i.e. Ice storms, tornados, earthquakes • Food Outbreaks • Disease Outbreaks • White Powder Incidents • Scheduled Events • i.e. World Equestrian Games, Derby, NASCAR races

  4. Deliverables • Local Health Departments are required to meet specific requirements • These deliverables are determined by the agencies that provide our grant funding such as CDC • Deliverables include things like: • 24/7 contact phone numbers for LHDs • ICS (Incident Command System) training • Participation in a disaster exercise annually • Having written Preparedness Plans

  5. Reporting Preparedness Activities • Preparedness staff use a system called Catalyst to report their activities • Other LHD programs use Catalyst • Each program uses a version of Catalyst that was specifically designed for their needs • Reporting is done quarterly and the information in the system is used to report local activities to our grantors to assure the funding to being used to meet the deliverables

  6. Declared Disasters by Year 1963-2009 and 2000-2009

  7. A Decade of Disasters in Kentucky Federally Declared Disasters by Year 2/08 storms, mudslide, flood 5/08 storms, tornado, mudslide, flood 8/08 Gustav response 9/08 windstorm-Ike 4/02 storms, flooding 5/02 storms, tornado, flooding 1/00 tornado, floods 2/00 storms, flooding 6/04 storms, flooding none 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2/09 winter storm 8/09 storms, straightline wind, flood 4/09 … H1N1 8/01 Storms, flooding 3/03 Winter storms 6/03 & 7/03 storms, flooding, mudslide, tornado 3/05 winter storm 12/05 storms, tornado 5/07 Storms, mudslide, flooding

  8. Kentucky Is In the Top 10 For Disasters Number of Disasters Kentucky ranks 8th in the number of declared disasters since the 1960s Population Kentucky ranks 26th population State Ranking 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 Land Area Kentucky ranks 36th in land area

  9. Pike County Flood 2010

  10. Finding the Way To Preparedness

  11. Public Health Preparedness Capacity Development PLANNING TRAINING EVALUATION • Hospitals • Mental Health • Volunteers • First Responders • POD Sites • NIMS/ICS • Volunteers • HMPAC • Subject Matter • Incident Command • Table Top • Functional • Full Scale • Pandemic Flu • SNS • Coop • Medical Surge • After Action • Research DRILLS AND EXERCISES PARTNERSHIPS

  12. Kentucky Department for Public Health Preparedness Branch Rebecca Gillis Branch Manager 502-564-7243 x 3741 RebeccaL.Gillis@ky.gov

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