Emergency Preparedness

 

Program Capabilities and Domains

The Washington State Department of Health's Office of Emergency Preparedness and Response is funded primarily by grants for public health preparedness from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and for healthcare preparedness from the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response. Each grant program requires that we make significant progress toward achieving these capabilities within the five-year project period. The capabilities we are required to achieve are listed below.

Domain and Capabilities

1. Community Resilience

PHEP Capabilities

  • Community Preparedness
  • Community Recovery

HPP Capability

  • Foundation for Health Care and Medical Readiness

2. Incident Management

PHEP Capability

  • Emergency Operations Coordination

HPP Capabilities

  • Foundation for Health Care and Medical Readiness
  • Health Care and Medical Response Coordination
  • Continuity of Health Care Services Delivery

3. Information Management

PHEP Capabilities

  • Emergency Public Information and Warning
  • Information Sharing

HPP Capability

  • Health Care and Medical Response Coordination

4. Countermeasures and Mitigation

PHEP Capabilities

  • Medical Countermeasures Dispensing
  • Medical Materiel Management and Distribution
  • Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions
  • Responder Safety and Health

HPP Capabilities

  • Foundation for Health Care and Medical Readiness
  • Continuity of Health Care Services Delivery

5. Surge Management

PHEP Capabilities

  • Fatality Management
  • Mass Care
  • Medical Surge
  • Volunteer Management

HPP Capabilities

  • Continuity of Health Care Services Delivery
  • Medical Surge

6. Biosurveillance

PHEP Capability

  • Public Health Laboratory Testing

HPP Capability

  • Public Health Surveillance and Epidemiological Investigations