- Send Jim Koval an email with the dates your health department will be closed during the Christmas and New Year holidays no later than December 18.
- Deliverable 17.1 - The second quarter IMATS drill must be completed by January 31, 2020.
- Deliverable 19.1 – The second quarter WCI progress report and supporting documentation is due to DEPR by January 10, 2020.
The PHEP Update schedule has changed. The PHEP Update will go out every other Thursday beginning with the December 5 edition. There was no PHEP Update on November 27 due to the Thanksgiving holiday.
Activity 16 in the BP1 LHD Work Plan has been postponed for the remainder of the budget period. In lieu of this assessment, MCM-specific questions will be incorporated into mid-year and end-of-year reporting. Contact Jason Smith for any MCM program specific questions or technical assistance requests.
To assure operational proficiency in utilizing the Inventory Management Asset Tracking System (IMATS), Drill 2 will provide LHDs the opportunity to review existing inventory associated with updated Primary and Secondary Distribution Nodes and clear current assets associated with these facilities. The timeline for this activity has been extended to January 31, 2020.
Contact Jeannie Byrne if you have questions or concerns.
The MCM/SNS team will conduct MCM-themed webinars for the remainder of the current budget period. These webinars will be approached with the new emergency preparedness coordinator/planner in mind, offering an overview of plan structure with some in-depth discussion on select functions. While more details are yet to follow, the dates/times and subject matter are as follows:
- Wednesday, January 8 (2:00 – 3:30 PM ET) – DEPR/BETP Planning Template and Plan Outline
- Thursday, February 13 (2:30 – 4:00 PM ET) – SNS/MCM Requesting Process (Initial and Ongoing)
- Wednesday, March 11 (2:00 – 3:30 PM ET) – Inventory Management (IMATS and MCIR)
- Tuesday, April 14 (2:00 – 3:30 PM ET) – Point of Dispensing Planning
- Thursday, May 21 (10:00 – 11:30 AM ET) – Distribution Functions
These dates are subject to change. Contact Jason Smith for any questions or content suggestions.
In 2020, DEPR will conduct regional sessions of the Special Pathogen Legal Training for Judges and Health Officers. The following sessions have been scheduled:
- May 20 – Escanaba State Office Building, Escanaba
- May 21 – Region 7 (pending)
- May 27 – Homer Stryker, MD School of Medicine, WMU, Kalamazoo
- June 2 – Livingston County EMS Training Center, Howell
These regional courses are the most effective when there is interaction between judges and public health professionals. LHDs can send either the health officer or EPC. They can also invite their general counsel. Each course is limited to 50 participants. Registration is through MI-TRAIN; use course ID # 1084685 and registration code SPLTTX19.
Save the date emails were sent to judges in regions 1, 2N, 2S, 3, 5, 6, and 8. Judges in Region 7 will be contacted once the training site has been determined.
Contact Jim Koval with any questions or for more information.
LHDs should continue to report any additional doses of hepatitis A vaccine administered that are outside of regular health department clinics through the monthly situation reports (sitrep) sent to checcdeptcoor@michigan.gov Any additional hepatitis A vaccination clinics held should be reported in the monthly sitrep as well. It is not necessary to send blank sitreps if there is nothing to report.
If further HAV funding is secured, this protocol may change and LHDs will be notified. Contact Sarah Davis with questions or concerns.
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