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HomeMy WebLinkAbout20041450.tiff RESOLUTION RE: APPROVE STATEMENT OF WORK FOR ALL-HAZARDS STRATEGIC NATIONAL STOCKPILE PLAN FOR SMALLPDX VACCINATION PROGRAM AND AUTHORIZE CHAIR TO SIGN WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of Weld County, Colorado, pursuant to Colorado statute and the Weld County Home Rule Charter, is vested with the authority of administering the affairs of Weld County, Colorado, and WHEREAS, the Board has been presented with a Statement of Work for All-Hazards Strategic National Stockpile Plan for Smallpox Vaccination Program between the County of Weld, State of Colorado, by and through the Board of County Commissioners of Weld County, on behalf of the Weld County Department of Public Health and Environment, and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, commencing June 1, 2004, and ending August 31, 2004,with further terms and conditions being as stated in said statement, and WHEREAS,after review,the Board deems it advisable to approve said statement, a copy of which is attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference. NOW,THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of County Commissioners of Weld County,Colorado,that the Statement of Work for All-Hazards Strategic National Stockpile Plan for Smallpox Vaccination Program between the County of Weld,State of Colorado,by and through the Board of County Commissioners of Weld County, on behalf of the Weld County Department of Public Health and Environment,and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment be, and hereby is, approved. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED by the Board that the Chair be, and hereby is, authorized to sign said statement. The above and foregoing Resolution was,on motion duly made and seconded, adopted by the following vote on the 19th day of May, A.D., 2004. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS EIL MAI WF UN Y COLORADO Jul 1'.o��ti: . r� � Robert D. Masden, Chair un `I k to the Board O 6C? • William rke, Pro-Tem Deputy Clerk to he Board M. J. e A OV AS TO M: 2t2 rcfy ttornead Date of signature: 7—Ci 2004-1450 HL0031 Memorandum TO: Robert D. Masden, Chair Board of County Commissioners IFROM: Mark E. Wallace,MD, MPH, Director O Department of Public Health & Environment • cM,1„5 titeeou,J COLORADO DATE: May 17, 2004 SUBJECT: Statement of Work for the National Smallpox Vaccination Program Activities Enclosed for Board review and approval is the Statement of Work for the All-hazards Strategic National Stockpile Plan, Focus: National Smallpox Vaccination Program Activities. This contract is between Weld County Department of Public Health and Environment and Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. The amount budgeted for Weld County is $32,177.00 for the period of approximately three months beginning approximately June 1, 2004 through August 31, 2004. The program goal is to continue smallpox education and preparedness for the citizens of Weld County. If accepted, the grant will provide funding to build on the smallpox preparedness program that was established in 2003. The funds will assist in exercising Weld County's mass clinic plan, continuing education, and collaboration with Weld County First Responders. I recommend your approval of this statement of work. Enclosure J.) fl . . :; n) 2004-1450 Statement of Work All-hazards Strategic National Stockpile Plan Focus: National Smallpox Vaccination Program Activities Weld County Department of Public Health April, 30, 2004 1. Appoint or continue to support a coordinator for the Vender Managed Inventory including National Smallpox Vaccination Program components : Weld County Department of Public Health has appointed a mass Immunization/prophylaxis coordinator for planning the Vender Managed Inventory as specified in the Weld County Department of Public Health and Environment Mass Immunization/Prophylaxis Plan including National Smallpox Vaccination Program components. He or she is responsible for the overall management of Weld County Department of Public Health prophylaxis/vaccination and preparedness activities including: a. coordination of public health emergency (including smallpox) response team planning (August 1, 2004), b. development of a county-specific protocol, and c. if sufficient risk were established (e.g., 1 case anywhere in the world), promotion of increased smallpox vaccinations among health care workers and first responders. 2. Develop a system to enhance public health capacity for recruitment and tracking of participants, data collection, storage, and management, reporting and evaluation activities related to the Strategic National Stockpile including the National Smallpox Vaccination Program: Any current and future smallpox vaccination program participants will be tracked using standard tools. If sufficient risk were established, Weld County Department of Public Health would use Center for Disease Control's (CDC) Pre-Event Vaccination System (PVS) or a similar system being developed by Colorado Department of Public Health(CDPHE)to recruit and track participants, collect data, store and manage inventory, and report and evaluate activities related to the National Smallpox Vaccination Program. Weld County Department of Public Health will employ surveillance system software developed by CDPHE to enhance these activities. Data collected for these activities will use structures consistent with the Colorado's Integrated Data Repository (IDR) built to conform to National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS) standards. The common IDR at CDPHE will be the conduit for electronic data transmissions to CDC. 3. Develop and regularly update a community-based online inventory that lists all available technical, clinical, epidemiological, and other expertise that could provide needed services during a smallpox outbreak: All-hazards Strategic National Stockpile Plan National Smallpox Vaccination Program Activities Weld County Department of Public Heath and Environment will provide support and information as requested or needed to CDPHE for their community-based online inventory. Weld County Department of Public Health will use the Virtual Alert system, if the system becomes available by July 15`h,2004, to support and provide information for the community-based online inventory of technical, clinical, epidemiologic and other expertise to draw on during a smallpox outbreak. 4. Identify the number and type of healthcare and public health personnel to serve as members on public health and healthcare emergency (including smallpox outbreak) response teams who will be target recipients for prophylaxis/vaccine (Focus Area B) Weld County Department of Public Health will maintain an electronic list of all known smallpox vaccinated health care workers in the county. Known vaccinated workers will be asked to inform county contact prior to permanently leaving the county and thus no longer available for response. Having already received the vaccine, these individuals will constitute the core of an initial smallpox response team. This group will be trained in a Weld County Department of Public Health specific version of the National Smallpox Vaccination Program protocol. If sufficient risk were established, this group would staff the public health vaccination clinic directed at expanding the number of public health and healthcare workers with adequate smallpox protection. This strategy and protocol will be shared with partner healthcare and public health organizations, security staff, law enforcement, emergency medical services and others who would need to respond during a smallpox outbreak. Contact information for vaccinated individuals will be solicited from partner agencies and collated for public health use. Agencies will be encouraged to maintain contact lists for potential vaccinees. If sufficient risk were established, contact procedures would be initiated to facilitate first responder access to prophylaxis/smallpox vaccination. 5. Develop and provide education and training sessions on all components of the public health emergency (smallpox response) plan, especially smallpox disease identification and reporting, contact tracing, training of vaccinators,training people to read "takes", and recognition and management of adverse events after vaccination of public health and health care response teams, and other individuals who may be involved in a response (key healthcare workers, key public health workers, key security staff needed to maintain public order, key EMS staff needed to transport ill patients, key hospital staff, key private physicians and their staff who may be occupationally at risk: Weld County Department of Public Health will undertake the following to meet this activity: 2 All-hazards Strategic National Stockpile Plan National Smallpox Vaccination Program Activities a. Consult with Focus Area G Instructional Design/Trainer Liaison to assess and review workforce training opportunities (e.g., informational, action drills and exercises) for Strategic National Stockpile and National Smallpox Vaccination Program. Should training opportunities become available,the Weld County Department of Public Health will encourage participation from the first responder community. b. Review the current county plan for mass immunization and prophylaxis and modify based on the lessons learned from these training opportunities. c. Provide feedback to instructional design/trainer liaison to guide changes, additions and/or deletions required to update/improve training materials available at county or partner agency levels. d. Establish a cascade system by which individuals with public health(including smallpox outbreak) response and prophylaxis/vaccination clinic operational expertise may assist with training others to support large-scale clinic operations. 6. Ensure that hospitals, clinics, and other participants in the Strategic National Stockpile (including National Smallpox Vaccination Program) response plan maintain a directory of smallpox vaccination team members and are provided regular updates on implementation of program activities with appropriate technical assistance: Weld County Department of Public Health will encourage that local agencies and stakeholders maintain team member directories, and provide updates concerning the National Smallpox Vaccination Program. 7. Improve the adequacy of state and local public health surveillance and reporting capacities related to smallpox, such as active surveillance for rash illnesses, case contact tracing, and monitoring for adverse events following vaccination (Focus Area B): If sufficient risk were established or upon request of CDC or CDPHE, we would begin to trace rash illness in Weld County hospitals and emergency departments. For those metro Weld County Department of Public Health hospitals, utilizing EMSystem, assistance will be provided to analyze these data as time and resources permit. Where accepted, Weld County Department of Public Health will encourage and if necessary assist with hospital and public health entity implementation of EMSystem in the county. If sufficiently deployed in hospitals and emergency facilities, the system might aid in rash illness surveillance and response. 3 All-hazards Strategic National Stockpile Plan National Smallpox Vaccination Program Activities CDPHE will develop a stand-alone smallpox data management system (with online download to a secured internet website capacity). Weld County Department of Public Health would use this system for contact tracing and tracking following the detection of a single case of smallpox; CDPI-IE beta testing will require the Weld County Department of Public Health regional epidemiologist to utilize and test this system during a statewide exercises. Weld County Department of Public Health will encourage use of the CDPHE- sponsored Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Center vaccinia adverse events reporting and clinician/vaccine referral line developed and piloted during FY2002 Colorado Phase I smallpox efforts. 8. Develop a comprehensive public health emergency (including smallpox) response plan that incorporates post-event plans from participating hospitals. Exercise the plan so it can be rapidly executed to control and contain the consequences of a smallpox outbreak should the outbreak occur within the project's jurisdiction (Focus Area B): In collaboration with HRSA-funded hospital preparedness grant activities, Weld County Department of Public Health will: a. develop a short template for post-event hospital public health emergency (including smallpox) response plan b. solicit hospital-specific responses, and c. exercise that plan in a table-top regional exercise (August 1, 2004) d. refine, incorporate and exercise local, hospital, and statewide smallpox and pandemic flu plans. 9. Describe the procedure that will be used to monitor, store, and manage large quantities of Strategic National Stockpile resources (including smallpox vaccine) within SNS response resources (hospitals, healthcare facilities, public health clinics (Focus Area A): Weld County Department of Public Health will work with CDPHE to enhance and refine the current state SNS (including National Smallpox Vaccine Program) plan, and the regional planners will do the same with their regional plans. Weld County Department of Public Health will review and comment on all materials or deficiencies identified by the Colorado SNS Program Consultant and those identified by the regional planners in their review of the Northeast Region SNS plan 10. Identify staff needed to support large-scale clinic operations. This includes: vaccinators, security personnel, traffic control staff,vaccine storage and handling staff, clinic managers, screeners, medical staff, and others needed to run a large-scale prophylaxis/smallpox vaccination clinics, according to previously issued CDC guidance: 4 All-hazards Strategic National Stockpile Plan National Smallpox Vaccination Program Activities Weld County Department of Public Health will use Colorado's enumeration database of health professionals at the state and local public health level and the Nurse Alert Program for nursing and other professionals to volunteer when renewing licenses in the Department of Regulatory Agencies. The enumeration database, part of the community-based online inventory system, will allow the county to credential, manage and train volunteers at the local level. The Nurse Alert Program will be administered through the HRSA Hospital grant whereby volunteers will be managed by the various professional associations. Details of this process are still under discussion and will be collaboratively worked out by Focus Areas A/E/G and HRSA Coordinators. The process will integrate these data across: the Health Alert Network (HAN) Call Down System, community-based online inventory for smallpox and the Learning Management System. Specific strategies involve: a. developing a community-based online inventory listing available vaccinators, security personnel, traffic control staff, vaccine storage and handling staff, clinic managers, screeners, medical staff and others available to support large- scale clinic operations, and b. linking the inventory to a Call Down System and portal (Activity # 3), and c. will support and provide information if the system is made available by CDPHE before July15th, 2004. 11. Train staff needed to support large-scale clinic operations. This includes: vaccinators, security personnel, traffic control staff,vaccine storage and handling staff, clinic managers, screeners, medical staff, and others needed to run a large-scale smallpox clinic, according to previously issued CDC guidance (Focus Area G): Weld County Department of Public Health will use materials developed by the SNS/ Smallpox training coordinator for a broad- based large-scale training response. If sufficient risk were established, develop a"Training of Trainers (TOT) cascade training plan" to address role-based knowledge/skill gaps for individual training to support a large-scale clinic operation. 12. Develop and exercise a large-scale prophylaxis/smallpox vaccination plan that will provide prophylaxis/vaccine for the project's entire population and can be rapidly executed once a case of smallpox disease has been identified anywhere in the world. This plan will be implemented in conjunction with the smallpox response plan mentioned above that will aid in controlling and containing a smallpox disease outbreak should it occur within the project's jurisdiction. The plan should address: patient screening, clinic operations, outreach, adverse event monitoring and management, reading of takes, and evaluation (Focus Area B): Weld County Department of Public Health will participate in maintaining the CDPHE developed statewide list of experienced infectious disease clinicians experienced in the treatment of smallpox, medical epidemiologists taking emergency 5 All-hazards Strategic National Stockpile Plan National Smallpox Vaccination Program Activities after hours call and the PHIL vaccinia adverse events and referral line. Weld County Department of Public Health will participate in a CDPHE organized exercises that tests the prophylaxis/vaccination plans on facilities, counties and statewide level. 13. Following any exercise, assess training needs for prophylaxis/vaccination preparedness as it pertains to large-scale clinic operations—with special emphasis on emergency department personnel, intensive care unit staff, general medical staff(including physicians who will likely encounter adverse events), infectious disease specialists, security personnel, housekeeping staff, other healthcare providers, and public health staff(Focus Area G): a. Weld County Department of Public Health will use resources developed by the Strategic National Stockpile/National Smallpox Vaccination Program Instructional Design/Trainer Liaison. b. Weld County Department of Public Health will test the mass prophylaxis/vaccination plan. The Weld County Department of Public Health will include the regional training coordinator in any exercise and/or exercise assessment, so that the regional training coordinator can provide the following: c. Review and evaluate information from drills and exercises from all clinics to assess level of competencies and determine what changes need to be made to improve training materials for both pre/post event to conduct large-scale prophylaxis/vaccination clinics. d. Continue to update and disseminate materials based on clinic feedback and exercises/drills to determine what changes, additions, or deletions need to be made to improve/update training materials. 14. Identify participants in a public information system, including call-down lists of public health and clinical contacts that can be activated to address communications and information dissemination needs regarding smallpox (Focus Area G): Weld County Department of Public Health will maintain a public information system that includes: contacts list for all employees (e.g., home and cellular/pager phone numbers) and annually review the procedures for public health and clinical contacts. Weld County Department of Public Health will quarterly test information dissemination procedures for public health employees. a. As the new statewide Dialogics alert system is implemented, methods will be used to contact Weld County Department of Public Health staff via this system. b. Produce report with updated Health Alert Network contacts, August 2004. 6 All-hazards Strategic National Stockpile Plan National Smallpox Vaccination Program Activities 15. Test responsiveness of participants within the public information system, including call-down lists of public health and clinical contacts that can be activated to address communications and information dissemination needs regarding public health emergency (including smallpox) (Focus Area E): Weld County Department of Public Health will bi-annually test responsiveness and time to response for the entire contact list for all public health employees a. Produce a report of test results, August 2004. 16. Develop for dissemination communications materials regarding public health emergency (including smallpox) training and education for local stakeholders, such as community members, school representatives, physician, local emergency service responders, and the general public (Focus Area F): Weld County Department of Public Health will utilize public health emergency (including smallpox) communication tools developed by CDC and CDPHE for emergency responders. These will be adapted to serve other audiences, including schools, health care providers, and the general public. 17. Develop a plan to dispense medications to the public. Ensure that the Plan contains standard operating procedures/protocols for the operation and management of dispensing sites and has been developed for patient tracking that will include the patient's Name/Address/Patient/History (NAPH) forms. This plan will have the ability to reproduce and distribute NAPH forms to dispensing sites Triage/Transport for those who are symptomatic. This plan will also have the ability to provide prophylaxis to first responders, essential personnel and their families Weld County Department of Public Health will identify the Dispensing Site Managers as well as encourage the Dispensing Site Managers to identify the Safety, Security, Logistics and Communications Lead with back-ups and POC information for each dispensing site. Each dispensing sites will be identified by state and or local jurisdiction with a current and updated (as needed) call-down rosters for SNS Leads/volunteers. The following Materials and supplies to support dispensing site operations will be provided: a. Material Handling Equipment: if needed. b. Office supplies c. Medical supplies d. Drug Fact Sheets e. Agent Fact Sheets 18. As a deliverable of these smallpox dollars Weld County Department of Public Health is required to purchase digital camera's that will meet or exceed the specifications listed below for half of the hospitals in the Northeast Region that 7 All-hazards Strategic National Stockpile Plan National Smallpox Vaccination Program Activities don't currently have digital cameras (as determined through poll conducted for State Focus area B). Camera: -Writes to memory stick (other media optional, i.e.: 3" CD's) -3.2-mega pixel resolution (minimum) with 3x optical lens (minimum) -MPEG movie mode (optional) Optional: Memory Stick: -256 Mb memory stick (128 Mb minimum) -Memory Stick reader(connected to your PC) or Memory Stick Reader Mouse (optional) The purpose of these cameras will be to take pictures of unidentified rash illnesses and other unknown conditions that could then be sent to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment or other institutes for identification. These cameras are to be purchased for the ICP's at the hospitals, local health departments, and/or nursing services. (3 or 4 as listed below ,to be determined by CDPHE,the others will be purchased by Larimer County Health Department) Sterling Regional Medical Center(1) Sedgwick County Memorial Hospital (1) Melissa Memorial Hospital (1) Haxtun Hospital (1) Kit Carson County Memorial Hospital (1) Project Dates: June 1 through August 31, 2004 Contractor understands and agrees that none of the funding made available pursuant to this purchase order can be used on any work or project other than that specified in this Scope of Work. Contractor further understands that Contractor is not to include any work not related to the Scope of Work, attached to this purchase order, on any invoices to the State. If Contractor mistakenly includes any unrelated work on an invoice, submitted pursuant to this purchase order, then Contractor hereby agrees to return this amount of money to the state immediately upon it becoming or being made aware. Billing Schedule: Contractor shall submit monthly invoices to CDPHE and shall be paid on a reimbursement basis only. Total cost to CDPHE shall not exceed the total budget amount. Signature of Contractor Date 8 All-hazards Strategic National Stockpile Plan National Smallpox Vaccination Program Activities Attachment A: Budget Attachment A: Project Budget Description of Budget Item Budget Amount Staff time and administrative support as needed to include Personnel: salary,fringe benefits and indirect 21,177 Personnel Sub-Total: 21,177 Cameras 1,500 Equipment: Dispensary site Supplies 1,000 Miscellaneous equipment 1,000 Equipment Sub-Total: 3,500 Mileage 1,000 Travel: Meals and Lodging 1,500 Travel Sub-Total: 2,500 Mass Clinic Exercise 2,000 Operating/ Copying and Printing 1,000 Supplies: Meeting supplies 500 Operating/Supply Sub-Total: 3,500 Training 1,500 Other: 9 All-hazards Strategic National Stockpile Plan National Smallpox Vaccination Program Activities Other Sub-Total: 1,500 TOTAL BUDGET AMOUNT: $32,177.00 10 Granting Agency: Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Applicant's Name: Weld County Department of Public Health and Environment Applicant's Address: 1555 N. 17th Avenue Greeley, CO 80631 Applicant's Phone: (970) 304-6410 Applicant's Fax: (970)304-6412 Project Tide: All-hazards Strategic National Stockpile Plan Focus: National Smallpox Vaccination Program Activities Contact Person: JoRene Peden Amount Request: $32,177 Time Period of Request: June 1,2004 through August 31, 2004 Weld County Department of Public Weld County Board of Health and Environment Commissioners In c, .Inj 4 /fns Mark E.Wallace,MD,MPH,Director I'�,'1t%, . en Masd , Chair MAY 19 2004 1861 t' '�' Jerk to the Bo d Fr ®mi glOD`f-/4S"O Hello