Friday, March 14, 2025
3/14/2025
Project Abstract Summary Oregon Public Health Crisis Response Application September , 2023 The Oregon Health Authority’s Public Health Division seeks to apply for these Public Health Crisis Response funds to support, rapidly mobilize, and respond to public health emergencies. Oregon Health Authority/Public Health Division maintains a strong ability to activate and use its incident command system (ICS), emergency operations plan (EOP) and supporting plans, as well as its agency operations center (AOC). With the Public Health Crisis Response funding we will be focusing on our ability to increase contracts, activate and rapidly mobilize our State Emergency Registry of Volunteers in Oregon (SERV-OR) for addressing medical surge, hire surge staff, and ensure health equity through translation services. Purpose The infrastructure of the AOC was developed according to our Division’s Plans and is fully functional at this time. Oregon’s current Incident Management Team (IMT) is well developed and trained. We know that in a response we will need to surge our IMT staff in order to best support the State’s emergency support function 8 (ESF8) health and medical activities. In addition, we have obtained multiple contracts to support our ESF8 however, in a crisis situation we would need additional funds to expand and potentially put into place emergency contracts. Furthermore, in alignment with Federal Law and health equity, we would need to purchase additional translations depending on which communities the event affected. Outcomes By the end of the event/emergency, HSPR and the broad network of local, tribal, regional and state partners will strengthen and enhance Oregon’s public health emergency response and recovery preparedness capabilities. HSPR will have expanded IMT staff and activated the State Emergency Registry of Volunteers in Oregon to address the medical surge. HSPR will assess, improve and continue to evaluate the capacity to ensure the rapid assessment and earliest possible sharing and investigation of evolving incidents, implement interventions and control measures as soon as possible, communicate situational awareness and risk information to partners and community, manage surge of both patients/affected and response resources, support incident management/command, and support ongoing learning and improvements as individual responders, teams, organizations and systems.
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