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Preparedness
What it’s all about
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Declared Disasters by Year 1963-2009 and 2000-2009
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A Decade of Disasters in Kentucky
2009200820072006200520042003200220012000
1/00 tornado, floods2/00 storms, flooding
4/02 storms, flooding5/02 storms, tornado, flooding
8/01 Storms, flooding
6/04 storms, flooding none
3/03 Winter storms6/03 & 7/03 storms, flooding, mudslide, tornado
3/05 winter storm12/05 storms, tornado
5/07 Storms, mudslide, flooding
2/08 storms, mudslide, flood5/08 storms, tornado, mudslide, flood8/08 Gustav response9/08 windstorm-Ike
2/09 winter storm8/09 storms, straightline wind, flood4/09 … H1N1
Federally Declared Disasters by Year
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11-20 21-30 31-40 41-501-10
Number of DisastersKentucky ranks 8th in the number of declared disasters since the 1960s
PopulationKentucky ranks 26th population
Land AreaKentucky ranks 36th in land area
Kentucky Is In the Top 10 For Disasters
StateRanking
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Pike County Flood 2010
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Finding the Way To Preparedness
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Public Health Preparedness Capacity Development
•Pandemic Flu•SNS•Coop•Medical Surge
•After Action•Research
PLANNING TRAINING EVALUATION
PARTNERSHIPSDRILLS AND EXERCISES
•Hospitals•Mental Health•Volunteers•First Responders•POD Sites
•NIMS/ICS•Volunteers•HMPAC•Subject Matter
•Incident Command•Table Top•Functional•Full Scale
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Kentucky Department for Public Health
Preparedness BranchRebecca Gillis
Branch Manager502-564-7243 x 3741