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7 Feedback to Office of Emergency Preparedness on Program Management
Pages 100-112

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From page 100...
... , whether the strategies, resources, mechanisms, technical assistance, and monitoring processes provided to the MMRS development process are effective. The question of effectiveness cannot be fully answered independently of some measure of the preparedness of the MMRS program communities, a task undertaken in subsequent chapters.
From page 101...
... weapon. OEP staff, the regional Public Health Service project officers, and the MMRS program contractors have identified two objectives as being especially important: Deliverable 2, the MMRS Development Plan, and Deliverable 8, Component Plan for Local Hospital and Healthcare System.
From page 102...
... The committee also identified several other essential activities or MMRS functions that are not addressed at all in the current contracts: · receipt and distribution of materials from the National Pharmaceutical Stockpile; · evacuee care (shelter for healthy people fleeing an area of real or perceived contamination) ; · volunteer utilization and management; · traffic control at the scene of an event, at health care facilities, and in the community as a whole; · evidence development, collection, and protection; · decisions and procedures related to evacuation and disease containment; · postevent follow-up of the health of responders and caregivers; and · a plan for postevent amelioration of anxiety and feelings of vulnerability among the community at large.
From page 103...
... Each of the 10 Public Health Service regions is assigned one to three regional emergency coordinators who also serve as the OEP project officers for the MMRS program cities within their regions. Many hold regular meetings with key personnel from their MMRS program cities, individually and as a group, for the exchange of information and advice.
From page 104...
... Appendix D is a copy of the checklist for the cities awarded contracts in fiscal year 2000. All of these efforts at helping MMRS program cities meet the terms of their contracts impress the committee as being potentially valuable, but the utility of this management assistance for both contract completion and effective preparation for CBR terrorism cannot be fully answered without input from the intended recipients, the MMRS program communities themselves.
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