(1) Each local health department shall conduct public health emergency preparedness efforts.
- (a) conduct, or coordinate with emergency management agencies in the district to conduct, a community public health, medical, mental, and behavioral health hazard and risk assessment that considers populations with special needs to influence prioritization of public health emergency preparedness efforts;
- (b) establish partnerships with volunteers, emergency response agencies, and other community organizations involved in emergency response;
- (c) establish Memorandums of Agreement with response partners for assistance in emergency response;
- (d) identify public health roles and responsibilities in local emergency response;
- (e) function as the lead agency for Emergency Support Function #8---Public Health and Medical Services;
- (f) maintain an all-hazards public health emergency operations plan that shall include priorities from hazard and risk assessment in R380-40-9(1)(a); hazard-specific response information for an infectious disease outbreak; and protocols or guidelines for dispensing of medical countermeasures, public health emergency messaging, non-pharmaceutical interventions, mass fatality response and requesting additional resources;
- (g) maintain a continuity of operations plan that shall include employee notification, lines of authority and succession, and prioritized local health department functions;
(h) annually test public health preparedness through an emergency response drill or exercise;
- (i) ensure access to and annually test emergency response communications equipment and systems that will be used in public health emergency response;
- (j) the local health officer and at least one other employee shall complete FEMA ICS-100, ICS-200, ICS-300, ICS-400, IS-700, and IS-800 courses.
KEY: local health departments, performance standards
Date of Last Change: November 5, 2023
Notice of Continuation: February 18, 2025
Authorizing, and Implemented or Interpreted Law: 26A-1-106(1)(c)