An evaluation of the Platte County Health Department's Emergency Operations Plan
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Emergency response plays a key role in public health and functions as a pillar of the ten essential services that local public health agencies (LPHA) are tasked with providing. This core function ensures that LPHAs build and maintain organizational infrastructure, strengthen support and mobilize community partners, as well as assess and monitor population health. LPHA's are typically responsible as one of our main boots on the ground responders when we are undergoing events of a biological/chemical public health emergency. Public health workers responding to these emergencies will rely on Emergency Operations Plans (EOP) which essentially serve to be a guidebook for how to handle varying disasters. The purpose of this project sought to explore how to properly evaluate the effectiveness of EOP's within Platte County Health Department. This will be done by examining other EOP's from Clay County, Jackson County, and Kansas City health departments to identify gaps in Platte County's EOP and areas where Platte County's EOP excels. This analysis will be achieved through high scrutiny of the collected EOP with a rubric that takes into account fifteen CDC PHEP standards. The results of this analysis displayed many things one of the biggest takeaways was that there is a need for continued updates of EOP's regularly in order to record any new changes that may impact public health response. Emergency Operations Plans are key in helping LPHA's prepare, respond, and recover from a public health event that may arise. The aim of this project is to provide an evaluation of Emergency Operations Plans, through this we hope to provide information to persuade workers in the emergency response field to be encouraged to set a standard to regularly update EOP's as outdated information can lead to inefficient response and in some cases a lack of response at all depending on how important outdated information is.
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