Health and Medical Surge Plan

Keywords / Description:

This document is a plan to provide for the surge capacity of public health and medical response for Richmond, Virginia. The plan addresses the following issues:

Local staffing needs and and inventory of the support available from local, state, regional, federal and private partners;
Volunteer recruitment, credentialing, activation and retention;
Laboratory and pharmacy surge capacity and supply surge issues;
Emergency medical treatment and transport, and both hospital and community medical surge assets;
Alerting systems that support public health and medical surge; and
Concept of operations and roles and responsibilities of the local health department.

This plan was submitted in 2010 as evidence for Goal 1 of a Project Public Health Ready application and can be used by current and future applicants as an example.

Toolkit:

PPHR Toolkit

Keyword Area:

All-Hazards, Mutual Aid, Project Public Health Ready, Surge Capacity

Jurisdiction:

200,000 - 299,999

Institutional Author:

Richmond City Health District, VA

Submitted:

03/05/2012

Modified:

08/17/2012

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