Community planning

Experience has shown that our diverse communities find unique approaches and solutions to public health emergency planning. Our aim is to showcase these local/community level approaches that exemplify innovative solutions to pandemic influenza preparedness planning that reach across and beyond traditional health care systems.   We would also like to highlight how communities are tackling and overcoming barriers and challenges to pandemic influenza planning, specifically in the areas of:

• medical surge capacity
• community mitigation strategies
• models of emergency healthcare delivery
• alternative care sites
• maintaining critical community infrastructure
• legal and regulatory policy
• workforce education and safety
• community education/communication-especially vulnerable populations
• role of the business community/private sector

We asked communities to describe their experiences with pandemic influenza preparedness planning.  We were looking for innovative and instructive stories that contained links between the health care delivery system and public health (state and local)  within the context of the community.

These are the community pan flu preparedness plans submitted for the 2nd National Congress; use them as a reference to adapt and integrate relevant elements into your own local planning processes.  The following PDF files require Adobe® Reader®.

Arizona
Coyote Crisis Campaign (CCC): 2007 Community Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Planning (PDF, 62KB)
Scotsdale, AZ

Colorado
Health Emergency Line for the Public (HELP) for Community Pandemic Influenza Response (PDF, 41KB)
Denver, CO

Pandemic Influenza Planning Guidance for Medical Reserve Corps Units (PDF, 27KB)
Medical Reserve Corps - Pueblo County, CO

Connecticut
Alternative Care Sites (PDF, 36KB)
ACS Matrix (PDF, 21KB)
ACS Matrix Legends (PDF, 38KB)
Danbury Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Office of Emergency Management - Danbury, CT

Florida
Pasco County Health Department and Community Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Planning Experiences (PDF, 69KB)
New Port Richey, FL

Georgia
A Best Practice Collaboration Model between Georgia Power and State/District Public Health (PDF, 35KB)
Atlanta, GA

Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Enabling Non-Traditional Partners in Pandemic Influenza Planning (PDF, 47KB)
Georgia Division of Public Health

Idaho
The Self Imposed Reverse Quarantine Plan – A pandemic without morbidity? (PDF, 480KB)
Madison Memorial Hospital - Rexburg, ID

Illinois
A Community Vaccination and Mass Dispensing Model (CVMDM) for Public Health Officials (PDF, 101 KB)
Argonne National Laboratory - Argonne, IL

Kansas
Community Education and Communication – especially vulnerable populations (PDF, 18KB)
Attachment 1 - Planning Process (PDF, 16KB)
Attachment 2 - Narrative (PDF, 31KB)
Kansas Deparment of Health and Environment

Massachusetts
Emergency Dispensing Sites (EDS) Education Day for the Cape and Islands (PDF, 64KB)
EDS Education Day Schedule (PDF, 21KB)
EDS Education Day Flyer (PDF, 27KB)
Family Emergency Education Day Flyer (PDF, 89KB)
Barnstable County, MA

Michigan
Oakland County Health Division Community Integration and Collaboration (PDF, 27KB)
Pontiac, MI

Minnesota
Northeast Region Emergency Preparedness Coalition (PDF, 143KB)

Nebraska
Center for Biopreparedness Education (PDF, 23KB)
Omaha, NE

New England
The New England Center for Emergency Preparedness (NECEP) (PDF, 39KB)
Dartmouth Medical School 

New York
New York State Workgroup on Ventilator Allocation in an Influenza Pandemic (PDF, 36KB)
New York State Department of Health/New York State Task Force on Life and the Law

Ohio
Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Planning from a Health System Readiness Perspective (PDF, 94KB)
Akron Regional Hospital Association - Akron, OH

Local Health Department and Community Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Planning Experiences (PDF, 95KB)
Cuyahoga County Board of Health - Parma, OH

Oklahoma
Engaging Community Sectors in Pandemic Influenza Preparedness (PDF, 17KB)
Abstract (PDF, 32KB)
Tulsa Health Department - Tulsa, OK

Oregon
Community mitigation strategies, community education and business community and private sector involvement (PDF, 51KB)
Multnomah County Health Department - Multonomah, OR

Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue (PDF, 53KB)
Portland, OR

Pennsylvania
Pandemic Influenza Preparedness - Collaborative Healthcare Planning in the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area (PDF, 78KB)
Philadelphia Department of Public Health - Philadelphia, PA

Rhode Island
State of Rhode Island Department of Health (PDF, 207KB)
Providence, RI

Tennessee
Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Planning Experience (PDF, 27KB)
Tennessee Department of Health, Southeast Regional Office - Chattanooga, TN

Utah
Community wide planning for pandemic influenza (PDF, 31KB)

Virginia
Medical Surge Capacity and Capability/ Emergency Healthcare Delivery (PDF, 139KB)

Development of Process to Address Ethical Issues and Altered Standards of Care in a Pandemic: Model for the Commonwealth of Virginia (PDF, 47KB)

Other
2006 Northern Region Mass Vaccination Exercise (PDF, 71KB)
Navajo Area Indian Health Service

Task Force on Mass Casualty Critical Care (PDF, 29KB)