Medical Countermeasures & SNS
This type of request may be submitted to ODH when additional supplies such as Ciprofloxacin and Doxycycline may be needed in response to an anthrax event.
What is the Resource Request?
This volunteer organization, which includes medical and public health professionals, can be activated to assist local public health jurisdictions with POD operations.
Who is the Medical Reserve Corps?
This all-hazards plan guides health departments in preparing for and responding to a wide range of potential emergencies, both natural and man-made.
What is an Emergency Response Plan (ERP)?
This serves as TLCHD's command hub where public health officials coordinate response efforts, share information, and manage resources.
What is the Department Operation Center (DOC)?
This intervention separates sick individuals from others to prevent disease transmission.
What is isolation?
This person, or their designee, is the only one that can request federal assets from the SNS on behalf of the local jurisdiction.
Who is the Governor?
Logistical information about drop sites and points of dispensing can be found on this system that was developed by ODH.
What is OPOD?
This type of agreement allows organizations or jurisdictions to share resources, personnel, and assistance during emergencies when local capabilities are exceeded.
What is a Mutual Aid Agreement?
The public health strategy used to reduce exposure to the vector.
What is vector control?
This partner serves as the regional point of contact for coordinating MCM requests for hospitals and alternate care facilities.
Who is the Regional Healthcare Coordinator (RHC)?
These will provide staff and volunteers with information about the position they are assigned and the required duties of the position while staffing the POD.
What is the Job Action Sheet?
This bureau within ODH coordinates statewide planning, training, and response efforts to prepare for public health emergencies.
Who is the Bureau of Health Preparedness (BHP)?
After business, Class A disease reports in Lucas County should be called in to this entity.
Who is Engage Toledo?
When a health department identifies all individuals who have been in contact with a person diagnosed with a contagious disease, this process helps prevent further spread by monitoring, and if necessary, isolating contacts.
What is contact tracing?
Tamiflu needs to be stored in this type of environment to ensure that it remains effective to use.
What is temperature controlled?
The number of people who can receive medication within a given period at that specific POD is considered this.
What is throughput?
Under the National Response Framework, this Emergency Support Function coordinates public health, medical services, and medical countermeasure support.
What is ESF #8?
This strategy involves providing vaccines or medications to a population at risk after exposure to a contagious disease, aiming to prevent illness or reduce severity.
What is post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP)?
This system is available to state and local health departments to assist with inventory management and tracking by the CDC.
What is Inventory Management and Tracking System (IMATS)?
This form, used at PODs, must be utilized to capture important information about who is taking the medical countermeasures and the associated lot number.
What is the Name Address Personal History (NAPH) Form?
The national doctrine that guides how federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial governments work together to respond to disasters and public health emergencies.
What is the National Response Framework (NRF)?
A critical step in controlling outbreaks, this formal report is submitted by healthcare providers to the local health department for certain infectious diseases, enabling timely public health interventions.
What is disease case reporting?