Public Health Practices

Community reception center exercise tests Florida's radiological screening and decontamination process

Source Agency: 
Florida Department of Health
,
Florida

Florida held an exercise to test skills related to radiological response, including screening, dosimetry, decontamination, and medical triage.

Partnerships, tools, and tabletop exercise tackle preparedness, continuity of opioid treatment programs during a disaster

Source Agency: 
King County Healthcare Coalition
,
Washington

Stakeholders formed partnerships, created tools, and expanded the Seattle region's capacity to ensure continuity of care for opioid treatment patients during a disaster.

HSEEP-based emergency exercise toolkit tailors tabletop exercises to the needs of hospitals and health facilities

Source Agency: 
Chicago Department of Public Health
,
Illinois

Chicago's toolkit walks users through planning a heat wave and medical surge scenario for a healthcare tabletop exercise.

Workforce Absenteeism Exercise

Source Agency: 
University of Minnesota
,
Minnesota

This simple activity was completed as part of a pandemic influenza response tabletop exercise in March 2009. The activity was designed to illustrate how a pandemic could affect members of the Pandemic Influenza Response Team and to creatively build support for the need to identify three back-up employees for each response position.

Public Health Emergency Exercise Toolkit

Source Agency: 
Columbia University School of Nursing Center for Health Policy
,
New York

The Public Health Emergency Exercise Toolkit was developed by the Columbia University School of Nursing to guide local public health agency staff in conducting emergency drills and exercises. The overarching goals of the toolkit are to aid local public health planners in 1) developing, implementing, and evaluating emergency drills and exercises, and 2) facilitating the public health aspects of larger, multiagency emergency exercises.

NEMA after-action report details interstate coordination efforts (Region: WY, NE, CO, KS)

Source Agency: 
Mid-America Alliance
,
Nebraska

Four Midwestern states held a tabletop to test their ability to communicate with each other during an emergency.

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