Resources

Lessons Learned: Integrated Community-wide Approaches

• Communities Can Learn Lessons From Worker Exposure to Anthrax in Washington, March 2005
  Study by the RAND Corporation
• DR HELP (Disaster Response for Health in El Paso County), 2005
  Case Example by the National Association of County & City Health Officials
  This program is innovative in that it takes the President’s recommendation of a Medical Reserve Corps and realistically distributes authority and responsibility throughout the medical community to minimize demand on community hospitals, which are already operating at near capacity and unable to accept much additional surge capacity.
• Healthcare Emergency Response Coalition of Palm Beach County (HERC), 2005
  Case Example by the National Association of County & City Health Officials
  The Healthcare Emergency Response Coalition of Palm Beach County (HERC) is a Coalition of representatives from the Health Department, Emergency Management, Fire Rescue, Sheriff, Red Cross, and area hospitals that have come together to work to prepare the community to respond to a public health emergency or disaster events including terrorist attacks.
• The Marion MVPC Program, 2005
  Case Example by the National Association of County & City Health Officials
  Marion City and County Health Departments have established a Mass Vaccination/Prophylaxis Clinic (MVPC)
• Yolo County Health Department Embergency Preparedness and Response: Avian Flu Outbreak and Vaccination Drill
• Health Care at the Crossroads: Strategies for Creating and Sustaining Community-wide Emergency Preparedness Systems, March 2003
  By the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
  This white paper details recommendations for creating and sustaining community-wide emergency preparedness systems.
• Statewide Disaster Medical Standards Development Project, August 21, 2000
  Mountain-Valley EMS Agency (California)
  Final Report of a project to develop disaster medical system standards to assist local EMS agencies in the development of local response plans.
• Santa Clara County Operational Area Disaster Medical/Health Plan, June 1999
  Santa Clara Valley Health and Hospital System