BRAT Consortium #6 Public Health Commission

• 2 meetings took place since last Commission Meeting. (March 23 rd and April 19 th)
• EPI Group has submitted to WALDAB to create a poster on Building EPI Capacity
• Statewide EPI Meeting is to be held on May 1 st
• Lyme Disease Workgroup (Laura and Anna are interested in representing the BRAT Consortium)
• EPI Group is working on fit testing, their questionnaire, and the current mumps situation
• Next meeting will take place in Adams May 17 th, 2006
• Request for Dave Pluymers to attend next Commission meeting and EPIs to give presentation

• Summary of the origin of the Human Services Disaster Response Project-mostly started with the distribution of Bioterrorism Response funding.
• Annex E and F are parts of the plan, designed to direct Human Services in their roles in a disaster
• In 2004, the project sent out a survey to all 72 counties, questioning what resources their HS dept had available.

Request for the results and sample survey to be forwarded to each Health Officer.

• Preparedness Checklist-designed for both individual and agency use
• Provided resources include Training for Emergency Management & ICS, FEMA Crisis Counseling, and how to fit plans to specific counties.
• National Organization on Disabilities-www.nod.org- Has presentation by Hilary Styron, possible located on the HAN as well
• October BRAT Meeting-would like to include others in presentation, such as Terri Leece from Salvation Army and Max Oleson from American Red Cross, and Larry Reed from WEM.

Results and survey to be forwarded

Follow up with this discussion and invite them to present at meeting.

Lang/Delmore/Nall

Delmore/Nall

• Email was distributed regarding Walter Clark’s military status
• MOU’s-Theis will forward the ones from Juneau County once available.
• Add Review of Sample MOU’s to Agenda for May meeting

• April 20 th Meeting-Dave Pluymers discussed the importance of using Health Officers to lead this, not coordinators and also discussed his vision: community readiness!
• Pandemic Funding: objectives include the Assessment and Exercise
• RAND Exercise-forward to all Health Officers
• 2006 Assessment-Plan to receive in May-Request for checklist to be forwarded and highlight areas that pertain to each county
• Hazardous Vulnerability Assessment Template: HRSA is taking the initiative on this subject
• Request for Lorenz to receive information from Ted O.
• Standardized Mutual Aid Request From and Notification Memo to WEM were distributed.
• Questions arose surrounding PH being the lead agency for mortuary services-Guidance is needed as to what the meaning of lead agency is in this case. Request clarification from Tom or Carolyn.
• SNS-Current projects include: Chempak project and Mobile Prep Course

Forward exercise to all Health Officers

Forward checklist

Forward information

Request clarification on “lead agency”

Delmore/Nall

Delmore/Nall

Delmore/Nall

Delmore/Nall

• Question arose: Why is the IPS Exercise an objective when the plan hasn’t been finished?
• Subgroup discussed concerns, issues, and shared suggestions.
• Other consortium coordinators came up with own IPS
• Questions arose surrounding clinics, and who is going to prophylaxis their staff.

• Regional Tabletop taking place using the hospital work plan
• Triage Tuesday-how to activate a triage system with EMS
• HRSA Workgroup developed: WI EOC for Hospitals Request for copies to be made of EOC description and the info sheets for the hospitals in each county.
• Other topics covered included: surge cots, RACES Project, Decon. Training, and Exercise training reports

• Adams is having a functional in July and partner involvement is improving.
• Columbia is had a Mass Clinic Tabletop with the involvement of partners from a local prison. They have found this to be an untapped resource for security staff. Lorenz also reports on wanting to start Influenza Planning for Businesses.
• Request for templates for Influenza Planning for Businesses from Carolyn
• Juneau had nothing to report
• Marquette is having a functional in June on Avian Flu/Mass Clinic. They are thinking of bringing a business group together for a Pandemic preparedness discussion.
• Sauk reports that for public outreach they will be entering in all the local parades to hand out brochures. Home Care has been presenting to local groups such as Homeward Bound and Home Health.

• April 19 th BRAT Meeting: Overall feeling was that it was very informative and the speaker was great
• Questions arose: Whom do we call when a bird dies?? Contact Tom Haupt for policies/ procedures
• March 22 nd WMD Tabletop in Dells: Police, Fire, EMS, Sheriffs Dept, Sauk Co. dispatch, and Sauk Co. PHD were in attendance. Resources were not utilized, nor realized. Lack of communication with key persons was also an issue for discussion. Mutual aid was not utilized.
• Command Caller Training: Do the health officers want to do the web cast training?
• Resend email with command caller information

Contact Tom Haupt

Forward command caller email

Delmore/Nall

Delmore/Nall

Pandemic Funding

• Can the money be used for the Consortium tabletop last October for Pandemic Objective?
• How to spend the money? Some examples are contracts, pandemic CDs, refrigerators, storage cabinets, staff wages, satellite phones, educational DVDs, and masks.

Policies and Procedures for Mass Clinic

• Delmore sent out an email to other Consortium coordinators and only heard back from one. She will forward this information to the health officers.

May and June Commission Meeting Dates

• Decision was made for May 31 st, 2006 (Wednesday) and for June 27 th, 2006 (Tuesday)