Medical Countermeasures
In the event of an infectious disease outbreak, this local agency can request medical countermeasures (i.e., MMR vaccine for a Measles outbreak).
What is the local public health department?
This national volunteer organization is housed primarily at local public health departments and can be activated to support public health during an emergency.
What is the Medical Reserve Corps (MRC)?
Healthcare and Public Health in Ohio use this system to track patients across health systems.
What is EMTrack?
This regional coordination partner supports jurisdictions in the event of a significant disease outbreak or incident impacting public health.
What is the Regional Public Health Coordinator?
Triage, Greeting, Screening, and Dispensing are all stations at what type of operation?
Point of Dispensing (POD)
Ohio EMA uses this system to maintain a common operating picture.
What is WebEOC?
This is the name of a location where the public can come and receive vaccine or prophylactic medication to prevent infection or illness.
What is a Point of Dispensing (POD)?
During POD operations, this form tracks recipients and personal health history and links them with lot numbers of dispensed medical countermeasures (MCMs), while also allowing 1 person to pick up medication for many household members at once.
What is a NAPH (Name, Address, Personal Health History) form?
This platform is updated regularly to show patient census, morgue capacity, and ED Boarding status at hospitals and emergency departments in Ohio.
What is EMResource?
This is the name of an ODH-managed electronic platform that tracks drop sites logistics and POD locations
What is Ohio Points Of Dispensing (OPOD)?
These documents outline staff roles and responsibilities for a POD operation and can be distributed to them as they arrive to work.
What are Job Action Sheets?
This Ohio electronic platform allows MRC Coordinators to send alerts to their volunteers.
What is OhioResponds?
This form is filled out when requesting state assets such as vaccine or antibiotics in the event of a public health emergency
What is a 213 RR form?
This metric is a measure of POD efficiency and will tell you how many individuals can be served by the POD within a given time frame.
What is throughput?
An LHD will activate a drop site in this platform to notify the region and state of the location for anticipated MCM delivery
What is the Ohio Points of Dispensing site (OPOD)?