Budget Period Short Term Goal. Goal 1: Establish a statewide baseline for post-incident recovery and make recommendations for systemic improvement for the state of Arizona PHEP stakeholders by developing an assessment tool in order to evaluate healthcare system recovery, behavioral health care, and human services recovery needs, along with resource availability.
Budget Period Short Term Goal. 2.6.4.1 Goal 1. Conduct multi-jurisdictional and multi-disciplinary exchange of health related information and situational awareness with all County and Tribal and local ESF-8 partners statewide. This short-term goal will be measured by 8% increased membership to the interoperable communication systems such as the Health Alert Network.
Budget Period Short Term Goal. 2.4.2.1 Goal 1: Leverage existing technologies to communicate with and inform the response partners and the general public during operational exercises, on-going drills, and responses. This short term goal will be measured and tracked through the documentation of drills and through the qualitative and quantitative evaluation of exercises and responses in After Action Reports and Improvement Plans (AAR/IPs).
2.4.2.2 Goal 2: Sustain the ability of state, local, and healthcare facility public information officers to coordinate, develop, and disseminate public information through the conducting of and evaluation of at least one operational exercise. The ability of public information officers to determine the need for public information systems establish and participate in information systems, and establish avenues for public interaction and exchange will be quantitatively and qualitatively evaluated in the context of an AAR/IP.
Budget Period Short Term Goal. 2.5.2.1 Goal 1. Identify specific roles and support functions between Arizona Department of Health, county Public Health, law enforcement, medical examiners, and private sector partners during a Fatality Management response.
2.5.2.2 Goal 2. Coordinate between internal and external partners to facilitate access to resources when demand on local jurisdiction exceeds capacity to support fatalities from an incident. Ensure resource request are in accordance with public health jurisdictional standards and practices and as requested by lead jurisdictional authority. This will result in the development and implementation of resource request process.
2.5.2.3 Goal 3. Survey county and tribal partners to identify training in support of Fatality Management operations to include: mental/behavioral health services, death notification, relief to families, and spiritual care. Utilization of a survey prior to and post training will measure increased knowledge.
Budget Period Short Term Goal. 2.7.2.1 Goal 1. Determine the jurisdictional public health roles and responsibilities in conjunction with Emergency Support Function 6, 8, and 11 partners. . Consolidation of information will result in the completion of a statewide plan that will support Mass care operations.
Budget Period Short Term Goal. 2.8.2.1 Goal 1. ADHS, County, and Tribal partners will meet quarterly to share best practices and lessons learned from Exercises for the rapid dispensing of medical countermeasures during a public health emergency. Collaborative review will occur during the Arizona Local Public Health Emergency Response Association (ALPHERA) and Regional Coalition meetings. By the end of BP2, all County, State, and Tribal plans will have been reviewed in their entirety.
Budget Period Short Term Goal. 2.9.2.1 Goal 1: ADHS, County, and Tribal partners will meet quarterly to share best practices and lessons learned from Exercises for Medical Materiel Management and Distribution of medical countermeasures during a public health emergency. Collaborative review will occur during the Arizona Local Public Health Emergency Response Association (ALPHERA) and Regional Coalition meetings. By the end of BP2, all County, State, and Tribal plans will have been reviewed in their entirety.
2.9.2.2 Goal 2: Collaborate with the Arizona Board of Pharmacy (AZBP) to develop a query protocol of pharmacies during a public health emergency. The protocol will support ADHS in determining the current standard inventory of medical countermeasures and will allow for streamlined request of medical countermeasures. By the end of BP2, the protocol will be an annex to ADHS SNS Plan. Participate in Inventory Management System quarterly drills in support of medical material management and distribution of medical countermeasures.
Budget Period Short Term Goal. 2.10.2.1 Goal 1. Coordinate jurisdiction's healthcare response through the collection and analysis of health data to define the needs of the incident and available healthcare staffing and resources. This will be measured by the results of monthly communication drills, and expansion of data being requested during Medical Surge exercises/operations.
Budget Period Short Term Goal. 2.11.2.1 Goal 1. Maintain and enhance existing plans to address NPIs for multiple incidents. Communication plans will be updated and/or maintained to share intervention activities with partners and the public. Plans will also include processes to address vulnerable populations as well as procedures to enable the scalable implementation of the intervention
Budget Period Short Term Goal. 2.12.12.1 Goal 1. Maintain and enhance public health informatics infrastructure, including the state- wide electronic disease reporting system (MEDSIS), electronic laboratory reporting and syndromic surveillance systems to allow state and local- level epidemiologists to better collect data, track health events and analyze disease trends. This goal will be measured by the number of reports generated using the various surveillance systems, the integration of a new outbreak module into MEDSIS and the increase in the number of laboratories reporting electronically to ADHS.
