1. Preparedness What it’s all about

2. KDPH Preparedness Branch Provides preparedness guidance and support to local health department staff Works with state partners to assure preparedness plans are in place The Branch is divided into two sections: – Administration and Program Evaluation Section – Health and Medical Emergency Operations Section

3. Responses Preparedness staff respond to Public Health Emergencies including but not limited to: – Floods – Severe Weather i.e. Ice storms, tornados, earthquakes – Food Outbreaks – Disease Outbreaks – White Powder Incidents – Scheduled Events – i.e. World Equestrian Games, Derby, NASCAR races

4. Deliverables Local Health Departments are required to meet specific requirements These deliverables are determined by the agencies that provide our grant funding such as CDC – Deliverables include things like: 24/7 contact phone numbers for LHDs ICS (Incident Command System) training Participation in a disaster exercise annually Having written Preparedness Plans

5. Reporting Preparedness Activities Preparedness staff use a system called Catalyst to report their activities – Other LHD programs use Catalyst – Each program uses a version of Catalyst that was specifically designed for their needs Reporting is done quarterly and the information in the system is used to report local activities to our grantors to assure the funding to being used to meet the deliverables

6. Declared Disasters by Year 1963-2009 and 2000-2009

7. A Decade of Disasters in Kentucky 2009200820072006200520042003200220012000 1/00 tornado, floods 2/00 storms, flooding 4/02 storms, flooding 5/02 storms, tornado, flooding 8/01 Storms, flooding 6/04 storms, flooding none 3/03 Winter storms 6/03 & 7/03 storms, flooding, mudslide, tornado 3/05 winter storm 12/05 storms, tornado 5/07 Storms, mudslide, flooding 2/08 storms, mudslide, flood 5/08 storms, tornado, mudslide, flood 8/08 Gustav response 9/08 windstorm-Ike 2/09 winter storm 8/09 storms, straightline wind, flood 4/09 … H1N1 Federally Declared Disasters by Year

8. 11-2021-3031-4041-501-10 Number of Disasters Kentucky ranks 8 th in the number of declared disasters since the 1960s Population Kentucky ranks 26 th population Land Area Kentucky ranks 36 th in land area Kentucky Is In the Top 10 For Disasters State Ranking

9. Pike County Flood 2010

10. Finding the Way To Preparedness

12. Public Health Preparedness Capacity Development Pandemic Flu SNS Coop Medical Surge After Action Research PLANNING TRAININGEVALUATION PARTNERSHIPS DRILLS AND EXERCISES Hospitals Mental Health Volunteers First Responders POD Sites NIMS/ICS Volunteers HMPAC Subject Matter Incident Command Table Top Functional Full Scale

13. Kentucky Department for Public Health Preparedness Branch Rebecca Gillis Branch Manager 502-564-7243 x 3741 RebeccaL.Gillis@ky.gov