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This exercise document was supported by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), Office of Preparedness and Emergency Operations (OPEO), Division of National Healthcare Preparedness Programs (NHPP) HPP Cooperative Agreement Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) number 93.889. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of HHS
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Table of Contents Workshop Overview ......................................................................................................................................... 1
Workshop Executive Summary ..................................................................................................................... 3
SUMMARY OF CAPABILITIES .................................................................................................................................... 4
Table 1. Summary of Capability Performance and Functions....................................................... 4
PHEP/HPP Capability 1: Community Preparedness/ Healthcare System Preparedness ............... 5
Objective 1: Align regional training and exercise objectives and schedules, and coordinate efforts to validate, assess, and enhance core capabilities. .............................................................. 5
Central Region .......................................................................................................................................... 5
Northern Region ....................................................................................................................................... 6
Southern Region ...................................................................................................................................... 7
Western Region ........................................................................................................................................ 8
Objective 2: Identify scenarios where integrated planning is needed .......................................... 9
Objective 3: Model relationships, functions, and planning sequences to meet identified integrated planning needs ...................................................................................................................... 10
Statewide (All respondents) ................................................................................................................ 10
Central Region ........................................................................................................................................ 12
Northern Region ..................................................................................................................................... 13
Southern Region .................................................................................................................................... 13
Western Region ...................................................................................................................................... 14
Appendix A: Exercise Participants ............................................................................................................. A
Appendix B: Acronyms ................................................................................................................................... B
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Workshop Overview
Workshop Name 2016 Public Health and Medical Training and Exercise Planning Workshop (TEPW)
Workshop Date 12/7/2016
Scope
The TEPW will review priorities to identify where future training and exercise efforts should be focused, identify training opportunities and exercises that will assist public health and health care partners, and provide an opportunity to coordinate and de-conflict all training and exercise activities.
Mission Area Prevention
Capabilities
NPG: Planning
PHEP/HPP:
Community Preparedness Healthcare System Preparedness
Objectives
Align regional training and exercise objectives and schedules, and coordinate efforts to validate, assess, and enhance core capabilities.
Identify scenarios where integrated planning is needed
Model relationships, functions, and planning sequences to meet identified integrated planning needs
Sponsor Arizona Department of Health Services
Participating Organizations
PHEP and HPP federal, state, tribal, local and non-profit partners. Please see Appendix A: Workshop Participants for the complete list of organizations.
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Points of Contact
Antonio Hernandez Section Chief, Partner Integration Arizona Department of Health Services Bureau of Public Health Emergency Preparedness 150 North 18th Avenue, Suite 150 Phoenix, Arizona 85007-3237 (602) 763-1774 [email protected] Alyssa Van Story Exercise Coordinator Arizona Department of Health Services Bureau of Public Health Emergency Preparedness 150 North 18th Avenue, Suite 150 Phoenix, AZ 85007-3237 (602) 361-1229 [email protected]
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Workshop Executive Summary
The 2016 Public Health and Healthcare Training and Exercise Planning Workshop had over one hundred participants representing federal, tribal, state and county agencies, as well as all four regional coalitions. ADHS served as the main sponsoring agency but received tremendous support from federal, state and local partners. The goal of the workshop is to provide information to help partners gain valuable insight and additional tools to help their agencies prepare for the year’s training and exercise activities. Attendance at the Workshop fulfills a grant deliverable for PHEP and HPP partners in addition to providing the opportunity to collaborate with each other. The upcoming ADHS MYTEP will be projecting out to three years. This year’s workshop also included valuable information the National Disaster Medical System exercise coming up in the next grant cycle, Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (THIRA) impact on training and exercise in Arizona, as well as the latest on public health threat assessment. The workshop helped the public health and medical community identify several common threads regarding gaps, areas of improvement as well as strengths where partners can collaborate to assist one another.
Hospital partners in each region have identified staff turnover as a challenge that has contributed to their short and long term priorities regarding training.
National Incident Management System (NIMS) and Incident Command System (ICS) training is a necessity for all regions.
Strategic National Stockpile exercises including POD drills will be the focus of almost every region in both the short and long term.
Tribal Communities will be focusing on behavioral health as well as the resource request process throughout the cooperative agreement.
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SUMMARY OF CAPABILITIES Table 1. Summary of Capability Performance and Functions
NPG Capability
PHEP/HPP Capability
Objective Function
Planning
HPP Capability 1: Healthcare System Preparedness
PHEP Capability 1: Community Preparedness
1. Align regional training and exercise objectives and schedules, and coordinate efforts to validate, assess, and enhance core capabilities.
PHEP Function 4: Coordinate training or guidance to ensure community engagement in preparedness efforts HPP Function 6: Improve healthcare response capabilities through coordinated exercise and evaluation
2. Identify scenarios where integrated planning is needed
HPP Function 4: Determine gaps in the healthcare preparedness and identify resources for mitigation of these gaps PHEP Function 2: Build community partnerships to support health preparedness
3. Model relationships, functions, and planning sequences to meet identified integrated planning needs
HPP Function 4: Determine gaps in the healthcare preparedness and identify resources for mitigation of these gaps PHEP Function 2: Build community partnerships to support health preparedness
The following sections provide an overview of the performance related to each workshop objective and associated capability.
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PHEP/HPP Capability 1: Community Preparedness/ Healthcare System Preparedness
Objective 1: Align regional training and exercise objectives and schedules, and coordinate efforts to validate, assess, and enhance core capabilities. Central Region
What are the short term training priorities?
Identifying strategies to connect public health and health care with municipal emergency management and emergency services (police, fire, and EMS). They will look into a timeline for development of the plan and how to tie in training within the project.
AZCHER plans to update the EM101 and EM102 programs, changing it to a four hour program using Homeland Security Exercise Evaluation Program (HSEEP) concepts.
Regarding the NDSM exercise planned for 2017, they will seek to identify training opportunities to help build up and support the exercise.
They will apply for training grants to primarily fund National Incident Management System (NIMS)/ Incident Command System (ICS) training with Homeland Security grants (UASI grant) coordinated through DEMA. They are usually looking for additional participants to prevent course cancellations, and will explore ways to fill them with Public Health participants. AzCHER and ADHS can assist in sharing information to partners.
Was a local TEPW conducted? Who participated? What were the strengths and areas of improvement? What were the challenges and barriers?
Maricopa County Public Health held a local TEPW that included: Health care Metropolitan Medical Response System (MMRS) cities Local law enforcement Central region counties Tribal communities Air quality Environmental health Medical examiners
Pinal County Public Health is planning to have one in the near future. Is there a link between areas of improvement and future exercise planning?
AzCHER identified HVA and NDMS based upon improvement planning.
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Long Term Care Centers – From gap analysis beginning in 2012 they have been focusing on training to facilities. The Disaster Ready Workshop was a Community wide tabletop exercise for partners based on a gap assessment.
Indian Health Services (IHS) – They used real world scenarios for developing drills. Staff turnover can pose a challenge requiring training. The tabletop exercise seems to be a good format for them however it does not meet Joint Commission standards. They have identified a need for surge planning.
ADHS EDC: The vector control conference with a focus on Zika (a two-day event)
including the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the University of Arizona (U of A) with information on Aedes Agepti abatement.
A mosquito identification and insecticide resistance workshop. They will also hold northern and southern region mosquito
identification training. (March 16 and 17 for Maricopa county) Maricopa County Public Health and Pinal County Public Health have a
requirement to do a Medical Counter Measure (MCM) Full Scale Exercise (FSE) with a March 2018 timeframe. They will also work on resource requesting procedures and data collection (epidemiological data).
Northern Region
What are the short term training priorities?
The Navajo Nation is working on Incident Command System (ICS) training with an emphasis on testing, training, and exercise (TT&E). They plan to provide more training to hospitals and are pushing to implement NIMS.
White Mountain Apache plans to implement crisis training and have stated that staff turnover continues to be a challenge.
Yavapai County is doing multi-position training because they have a small pool of staff to pull from for incidents.
The northern region identified their long term training priorities as:
Ebola training to be conducted in the Spring with additional TBD ICS training to be conducted in the Spring with additional TBD A Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) full scale exercise (FSE) to be conducted in
November with law enforcement and warehouse personnel Epidemiology training that addresses the need for more epidemiologists Public Information Officer (PIO) advanced training
Was a local TEPW conducted? Who participated? What were the strengths and areas of improvement? What were the challenges and barriers?
There will be a TEPW held in Window Rock on January 12th to include: County PHEP
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FMC Guardian Air The hospitals Behavioral health Red Cross Citizen Corp Council
Southern Region
What are the short term training priorities? Overall there are concerns with incident management due to a “revolving
door” from a lot of turnover and new people who need to be trained. Hospitals need to bring in more Hospital Incident Command System (HICS)
training. Training to address when there are capability “fails” how to make them
operational. Cochise County is developing a multi-hazard team to help in hospital
emergency operations coordination and the public safety group. Pima County priorities:
Communication Surge NIMS Incident Command Leadership
The southern region identified their long term training priorities as:
Medical Countermeasure Bio Surveillance Epidemiology vector borne challenges with staff, space and analyzing the
studies. They are concerned with the ability to establish and meet their responsibilities when funding is no longer available.
What training support or technical assistance is needed?
Tribal communities identify challenges in getting training set-up and trainers out to their areas.
Hospitals need help with justification for budgeting from their administrative funds.
Do you plan to provide training on emergency plans?
Pima County will update on health emergency operations standards to meet requirements.
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New plans in development include vector control and Zika to have something operational.
The hospitals will review plans annually.
Was a local TEPW conducted? Who participated? What were the strengths and areas of improvement? What were the challenges and barriers?
Pima County will conduct a MYTEP in early November to cover three years. Pima County held a coalition –based TEPW. The challenges included
understanding roles and resources and how to document everything.
Identify gaps/root causes, and determine if the improvements were addressed:
Hospitals report following the computer outage/flood – Incident command was identified but the full after action report is still pending.
Tribal – Conducted a Point of Distribution (POD) drill.
Western Region
What are the short term training priorities (2017 – 2018)?
La Paz County plans a law enforcement and responder isolation and quarantine exercise on January 25th. They will address gaps identified that question who can give orders, triggers, and the role of law enforcement regarding who can issue quarantines and whether it can be enforced.
EOC training in March by TEEX Pediatric disaster training TBD in the first quarter Hazmat training in February and March hosted by Fort Huachuca CASPR training at the end of BP5 Wildland firefighting TBD in Yavapai County
What training support or technical assistance is needed?
A behavioral health focus is needed for each capability area When the new functions and new priorities are released there will be a need
for training specific to those changes and what they mean for planning and exercises.
Was a local TEPW conducted? Who participated? What were the strengths and areas of improvement? What were the challenges and barriers?
Emergency management held a TEPW.
Regional Exercises Planned:
A Zika Tabletop exercise at La Paz Public Health Department – TBD
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A mass fatality exercise to cover Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear Explosive (CBRNE), Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) and behavioral health in general is scheduled for around April or May 2017 by La Paz Emergency Management and Public Health collaboratively.
A Hazmat spill tabletop by Yuma County and Cocopah Tribal Nation in collaboration with Kinder Morgan - TBD
And emergency operations center exercise to cover ICS and NIMS by Yuma County – TBD
An MCM full scale exercise for April 2017 by Yuma County and Cocopah Tribal Nation to cover SNS with closed PODS to be tested.
An MCM functional exercise is planned for September 2017 by Mohave county and Fort Mojave Tribal Nation to cover SNS and specifically regional PODS.
What exercise support or technical assistance is needed?
Cocopah tribe has identified AAR/IP writing and evaluation and just-in-time training for PODS as a technical assistance need. Process flow mapping would also be helpful and useful.
Objective 2: Identify scenarios where integrated planning is needed Central Region
What plans need to be updated/created during 2017-2018?
AzCHER identified mass casualty and information gathering as well as updating their by-laws and memorandums of understanding (MOUs)
Coyote Crisis Collaborative identified their Mental Health Disaster Plan. It is in review and the “input” process. They hope to develop a joint disaster plan for RHBA and TRHBA, and a school reunification plan with school districts and the consortium.
The Department of Economic Security identified the state disaster plan for child care.
Which plans will be tested during 2017-2018?
Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station Emergency Response Plan IHS - Infectious Influx plan
Western Region Identify gaps/root causes, and determine if the improvements were addressed:
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Tribal areas/concerns: lands span counties and states causing among other things, mosquito
control challenges - multi-state vector control program Tribes should consider a tribal crisis management team to respond to
tribes all over the state - working with the RHBA’s and TRBHA’s to try and develop something similar to a “hot shot” tribal team.
Should the tribes reach out to coyote crisis in as well? Where the funding for something like this come from?
Fort Mojave had a 7,000 acre fire that was a disaster due to the small size of the community which caused a great deal of damage and had a very negative affect on the community.
Regional case studies for tribal needs Fort Mojave – open regional PODS, in 2009 H1N1 provided the venue to
exercise with La Paz and Yavapai county to simulate mass vaccinations Mountain West PERL – proposal to provide additional training and
looking for additional funding.
What is the status of improvement plan completion?
Several have already been completed meaning that they were “followed through and fulfilled.”
Objective 3: Model relationships, functions, and planning sequences to meet identified integrated planning needs
Strategic Goals and Priorities
Statewide (All respondents) There were multiple disciplines represented in this year’s TEPW. Those disciplines included:
Public Health – 44% Health Care System – 23% Emergency Management – 21% Community/ Volunteer Organization – 6% Other – 6%
The attendees predicted that over the next three years overall preparedness should see the greatest increase in Community Resilience capabilities. They ranked Incident Management as the domain of greatest importance. And determined that the category, “Implement Best, Promising, & Evidence-Based Practices” is the most important strategic goal for the upcoming cooperative agreement period.
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Domain Priorities:
Strategic Goals
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
Implement Best,Promising and
EBP
Improvement inPH Infrastructure
Promote andSupport PH and
Safety
Align Resources Sync.Collaboration and
Coordination
28%
21% 21%
17%
13%
PHEP/HPP Ranked Strategic Goals
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
IncidentManagement
Informationmanagement
SurgeManagement
CommunityResilience
Countermeasures& Mitigation
Bio Surveillance
22%
18%17%
16%
14%13%
2017- 2018 Domain Priorities
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Capability Assessment by Priority
The following section utilizes data captured at the MYTEP workshop with participants answering via the audience response system. Data sets represent the percentage of those in attendance who responded to each question. And respondents were divided into their respective regions.
Central Region The Central region prioritized their capabilities for the upcoming fiscal year ranking Information Sharing as the highest priority and Public Health Surveillance and Epidemiological Investigation as the fifth most important area of focus.
They also predicted that the region would have the greatest increase in Surge Management capabilities over the next three years.
Central Region BP1
Northern Region The Northern region prioritized their capabilities for the upcoming fiscal year ranking Public Health Surveillance and Epidemiological Investigation as the highest priority and Emergency Operations Coordination as the fifth most important area of focus.
They also predicted that the region would have the greatest increase in Information Management capabilities over the next three years.
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5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
InformationSharing
Community/Healthcare
Preparedness
ResponderSafety and
Health
PHSurveillance
and EpiInvestigation
MedicalSurge
EmergencyOperations
Coordination
29% 28%
25% 24% 24% 24%
BP1 Capabilities by Priority
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Northern Region BP1
Southern Region The Southern region prioritized their capabilities for the upcoming fiscal year ranking Public Health Surveillance and Epidemiological Investigation as the highest priority and multiple capabilities ranking at 23% as important areas of focus.
They also predicted that the region would have the greatest increase in Incident Management capabilities over the next three years.
Chart 3: Southern Region
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10%
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30%
PH Surveillance&Epi
Investigation
Community/Healthcare
Preparedness
EmergencyOperations
Coordination
MedicalCountermeasure
Dispensing
Mass Care
31% 30%
24%26% 26%
BP1 Capabilities by Priority
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
ResponderSaftey and
Health
PHSurveillance
&EpiInvestigation
InformationSharing
EmergencyOperations
Coordination
Community/Healthcare
Preparedness
26% 26%23% 23% 23%
BP1 Capabilities by Priority
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Western Region The Western region prioritized their capabilities for the upcoming fiscal year ranking Responder Safety and Health as the highest priority and Emergency Operations Coordination as the fifth most important area of focus.
They also predicted that the region would have the greatest increase in Community Resilience capabilities over the next three years.
Chart 4: Western Region
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
ResponderSafety and
Health
VolunteerManagement
Community/Healthcare
Preparedness
MedicalCountermeasure
Dispensing
EmergencyOperations
Coordination
31% 30%
24% 24%23%
BP1 Capabilities by Priority
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Appendix A: Exercise Participants Participating Organizations
Federal
IHS - Phoenix
Veterans Affairs
State
Arizona Department of Education
Arizona Department of Emergency and Military Affairs
Arizona Department of Health Services
Tribal
Cocopah Indian Tribe
Colorado River Indian Tribes
Fort Mojave Indian Tribe
Gila River Indian Community
Hopi Tribe
Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona
Tohono O’odham Nation
White Mountain Apache Tribe
Local
Cochise County
Coconino County
Graham County Health Department
Greenlee County Health
La Paz Health Department
Maricopa County
Mojave County Department of Public Health
Navajo County
Santa Cruz County Health Services
Yavapai County Community Health Service
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Participating Organizations
Yuma County Public Health Service District
Hospitals/Clinics
Adelante Healthcare
Arizona Spine and Joint
Arrowhead Hospital
Banner Casa Grande
Banner Desert Medical Center
Banner Thunderbird and Del Webb
Banner University Medicine Tucson/South
Canyonlands Health Care
Carondelet Health Network Western Arizona Regional Medical Center
Chiricahua Community Health Centers
Cobra Valley Regional Medical Center
Copper Queen Community Hospital
Dignity Health
El Rio Community Health Center
Flagstaff Medical Center Sage Memorial Hospital
Gila River Health Care
Havasu Regional Medical Center
Honor Health
Hopi Health Care Center
Kingman Regional Medical Center
Marana Health Center
Maricopa Integrated Health System
Maryvale Hospital
Mayo Clinic
Mercy Maricopa Hospital
Mountain Vita Medical Center
Mt. Graham Regional Medical Center
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Participating Organizations
Northern Cochise Community Hospital
Northwest Medical Center
Phoenix Baptist Hospital
Sells Indian Hospital
St. Luke’s Medical Center
Sun Life Family Health Center
Tuba City Regional Health Care Corporation
Tucson Medical Center
Valley View Medical Center
Verde Valley Medical Center
West Valley Hospital
Wickenburg Community Hospital
Winslow Indian Health Care Center
Yavapai Regional Medical Center
Yuma Regional Medical Center
Health Care Coalitions
Arizona Health Care Association
AzCHER - Central
Arizona Alliance for Community Health Centers
Coyote Crisis Collaborative
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Appendix B: Acronyms
Acronym Term
ADHS Arizona Department of Health Services
AFN Access and Functional Need
AHCA Arizona Health Care Association
AZTEC Arizona Tribal Executive Committee
BP4 Budget Period 4
CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CPG Capability Planning Guide
DEMA Division of Emergency and Military Affairs
DOD Department of Defense
DPS Department of Public Safety
EM Emergency Management
EMS Emergency Medical Services
EOC Emergency Operations Center
ESF Emergency Support Function
FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency
HPP Hospital Preparedness Program
HHS Health and Human Services
ICS Incident Command System
JIC Joint Information Center
LTC Long Term Care
MCM Medical Countermeasures
NDMS National Disaster Medical System
PAHPA Pandemic and All Hazards Preparedness Act
PHEP Public Health Emergency Preparedness
PIO Public Information Officer
RBHA Regional Behavioral Health Authority
SAC Senior Advisory Council
SERRP State Emergency Response and Recovery Plan
SNS Strategic National Stockpile
VA Department of Veterans’ Affairs