Regional Emergency Coordination Plan

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Regional Emergency Coordination Plan

• June 11,2003
• Health Work Group
• Arlington Council Member Jay Fisette, COG Board
  Member and
• Health Workgroup Chair

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Version 1 approved by the COG board on September
11, 2002

• May, 2003 all 18 COG member jurisdictions have
  signed the MOU
• Currently seeking signatures from state and
  federal agencies, private partners and
  non-profits
• Available at www.mwcog.org

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RICCS Regional Incident Communication and
Coordination System.

• The keystone of the RECP
• Has 3 parts
• Alerts
• Conference calls
• Incident tracking
• Still developing protocols
• Used during the SARS outbreak

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RECP is not finished

• Version1.1
• Minor corrections
• Target date August 2003
• Ready to start work on version 2
• Identify strengths
• Fill in the gaps
• Incorporate new knowledge
• Build in new protocols and practices
• Target date September 2003

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R-ESF 8 Strengths

• Good coordination structure for slow or fast on
  set incident
• Defines 4 risk levels
• Level 4 no active threat
• Level 3 potential bio-event
• Level 2 possible bio-event
• Level 1 confirmed bio-event
• Defined leadership
• Disease surveillance

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R-ESF 8 - Gaps

• Mental health
• Talked about it, but no details in version 1
• Communications protocols
• Had to wait for RICCS technology
• Mass event coordination
• No one does it on a daily basis