New CMS rules around preparedness will impact certain partners this year.  To this, the WWPHRC and the NWWIHCC have partnered to develop a work plan to assist these partners around the new requirements.  Our main focus will be on home health agencies, end stage renal facilities, long term care facilities and community health centers.

Rather than creating duplicate toolkits, we will point to our partners website for these resources, as they become available; http://www.wiherc.org/.  Once at this site, choose 'Resources'.  Once there, look under 'Helpful Documents'.

NEW!! - State of Wisconsin CMS Toolkit Resources.  Click here to be directed to these helpful tools and templates.

RECOMMENDED SITE - Central/West Central Minnesota Healthcare Coalition Website.  This site provides plan templates and other tools for LTCF and HHA as it relates to the new CMS ruling.  Click here to be directed to this site.

Backyard Poultry Safety

The biosecurity of backyard poultry is becoming more important and relevant than ever.  The US Department of Agriculture has created some great resources to help.  Click here to be directed to the USDA website on backyard poultry safety.

 Dashboard Update. See quarter 3 update on activities related to planning. 

The main benefit of consortium membership is standardized, consistent, alignment of emergency response plans.  This allows members to respond, provide support, and rely on each other in any situation with minimal delay in response.  Plan updates/revisions are managed by the consortium director and communicated out to members for adopting/localizing.

Check back here regularly for the latest news about Western WI Public Health Readiness Consortia.

School Reunification Plan

At Risk Populations Plan

Communication Tools

Flooding

Food Safety

Legal Resources

Models

Medical Resources

Pandemic Influenza

Personal Protective Equipment and Respiratory Protection Plans

Plans

Preparedness Resources

Public Health Information Systems

Strategic National Stockpile

TrackingUnder the Weather Campaign Posters

Volunteers

Weather Related Resources

• National Commission on Children and Disasters
• Emergency Preparedness Packet for Home Health Agencies (NAHC)
• Enhancing Public Health Emergency Preparedness for Special Needs Populations: A Toolkit for State and Local Planning and Response (RAND)
• SNS Toolkit for Addressing At Risk Populations (ASTHO)
• The At-Risk Populations Project(CIDRAP)
  • Collaboration with and Engagement of At-Risk Populations
  • Identifying At-Risk Populations
  • Communications with and Education of At-Risk Populations
  • Providing services (Clinical and Non-Clinical)
  • How to Test, Measure, Exercise, and Improve Preparedness of At-Risk Populations

• Google Translate. Translate text, documents, and WebPages
• Google Groups
• Google Docs

• Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - Flood Webpage
• CDC - Emergency Response Resources: Storm / Flood and Hurricane Response
• Wisconsin DHS - Flooding Health and Safety Webpage
• FEMA - Flood Webpage

• www.foodsafety.gov

• The Wisconsin Legislature: How a Bill Becomes a Law
• Wisconsin Act 96: relating to: designation of state agency status for certain health care providers, behavioral health providers, pupil services providers, or substance abuse prevention providers who provide services during a state of emergency related to public health or a state of emergency declared by a city, village, or town.
• Wisconsin Act 42
• Chapter 66. General Municipality Law (see Page 38-39. 66.0312: Local health departments; mutual assistance AND 66.0134: State of emergency; mutual assistance)
• CHAPTER 115. STATE SUPERINTENDENT; GENERAL CLASSIFICATIONSAND DEFINITIONS; CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES (Pertaining to school closure by a Local Health Officer in a disease outbreak and the 180 day rule)
• Chapter 145. Control of Communicable Diseases
• Chapter 157. Disposition of Human Remains
• Chapter 250. Health; Administration and Supervision
• Chapter 252. Communicable Diseases
• Chapter 257. Emergency Volunteer Healthcare Practitioners
• Chapter 323. Emergency Management
• Chapter 450. Pharmacy Examining Board
• Chapter 441. Board of Nursing
• Chapter NR526: Medical Waste Management
• Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act – PAHPA (PL 109-417)

• Bioterrorism and Epidemic Outbreak Response Model (BERM): allows planners to formulate realistic mass antibiotic dispensing and vaccination contingency plans for their target populations.
• Clinic Planning Model Generator: evaluates plans for mass vaccination or dispensing sites (PODs), including estimates of patient waiting time and staff utilization.
• Clinic Surge Planning Model: for short-duration, high-volume clinics that have a surge of patients when the clinic opens.
• The Model State Emergency Health Powers Act

• Wisconsin 1 Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT)

• FluAid: provides a range of estimates of impact in terms of deaths, hospitalizations, and outpatients visits due to pandemic influenza.
• FluSurge: estimates the number of hospitalizations and deaths of an influenza pandemic (whose length and virulence are determined by the user) and compares the number of persons hospitalized, the number of persons requiring ICU care, and the number of persons requiring ventilator support during a pandemic with existing hospital capacity.
• FluWorkLoss: estimates the potential number of days lost from work due to an influenza pandemic.
• Home Health Care Services Pandemic Influenza Planning Checklist
• Wisconsin's Pandemic Flu Resource
• Promising Practices: Pandemic Preparedness Tools - Center for Infectious Disease Research and Practice.
• The 5th Guy Campaign
• Pandemicflu.gov. One stop access to H1N1, avian, and pandemic information.
• Pandemic and All Hazards Preparedness Act

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) mandates any agency who requires their staff to wear a respirator to have a written respiratory program including annual fit-testing, education and medical screenings. To learn more about OSHA requirements visit their website at http://www.osha.gov/

• Wisconsin Department of Health Services Personal Protective Equipment Website
• Web-Based PPE Ordering Form
• OSHA Respiratory Protection ETOOL
• OSHA Safety and Health Topics for Emergency Preparedness and Response
• CDC National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health
• 3M On-Line Respirator Medical Evaluations

• National Health Security Strategy (NHSS)
• Wisconsin Hospital Emergency Preparedness Program

• NEW! Public Health Preparedness Capabilities: National Standards for State and Local Planning (CDC)
• Emergency and Terrorism Preparedness for Environmental Health Practitioners
• Emergency Preparedness Packet for Home Care Agencies

• NACCHO Public Health Preparedness Website

• The Epidemic Information Exchange (EpiX)
• Public Health Information Network (PHIN)
• Wisconsin Electronic Disease Surveillance System (WEDSS)
• CDC Early Aberration Reporting System (EARS)

www.PHE.gov is a web portal created by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, this site acts as a portal for residents in the U.S. and worldwide to obtain information from all U.S. federal agencies involved in a public health emergency, a medical disaster or the public health aspects of a natural or man-made disaster

• We Volunteer Wisconsin Website
• Medical Reserve Corp (MRC)
• Emergency System for Advance Registration of Volunteer Health Professionals (ESAR-VHP)