Welcome to Town Pickett

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Welcome to Town Pickett!

• ESF 8 - Public Health and Medical Services

Presenter Mark Levine, MD MPH Health/Medical
Incident Commander
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Town Pickett

• Located in Blackstone, community of 4,000
• On base of Fort Pickett, Army National Guard
  Training Base
• General Williams Colonel Sparks key contacts

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Where is Blackstone?
Blackstone
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A Vision for Town Pickett .

• A fully functioning town

MAYOR
INTERNET CAFE
BUS SERVICE
BANK
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Town Pickett
Dental Clinic
Medical Clinic
Red Cross/Intake
Health Clinic
Health Hdqtrs.
Housing
Social Services
Dining Hall Welcome Center
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ESF 8 Health and Medical Services

• Triage capability to identify patients requiring
  immediate care upon arrival
• Medical Screening
• Diseases of Public Health Concern
• Chronic Medical needs
• Acute care
• Emergent and Urgent Care on site
• Ongoing primary care/dental care/mental health
• Surveillance and Disease Control
• Environmental Health

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Incident Command Structure
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Status history

• Virginia on stand-by pending Ophelia track
• 24 hour notice
• Preparations continue possibility that we will
  be processing evacuees located in other parts of
  Virginia who are bused to Town Pickett for the
  day on Friday.

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Initial Priorities

• Walk through check flow of services
• Coordination of resources
• Determination of staffing needs/scheduling

Additional Steps..

• Planning for sustainability
• -update VDH stakeholders
• -planning with Central Region Districts

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Breaking New Ground..

• Not aware of any current plan within VDH for such
  an emergency operation
• Likely to be necessary in the future
• Perhaps a model for community health improvement?
• Single Point of Entry
• Collaboration
• Co-location of services
• Sharing of information
• Seamless services

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Lessons Learned

• Group in the process of reviewing
  issues/processes.
• Report to be issued in an effort to ensure
  improved planning and responsiveness for future
  events.
• A quality improvement approach for future large
  scale response activities

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References/Resources

• CDC Emergency Preparedness Response Site
• http//www.bt.cdc.gov/
• CDC Information for Hurricane Evacuation Centers
• http//www.bt.cdc.gov/disasters/hurricanes/katrina
  /shelters.asp
• Preparedness Today What you need to know
• http//www.redcross.org/preparedness/cdc_english/C
  DC.asp