Templates
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Annexes and Accompanying Documents
The following annexes and SOGs can be used by local health officials to aid in emergency preparedness and planning.
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Biological Incident Annex
The Biological Incident Annex (BIA) outlines the actions, roles, and responsibilities associated with response to a disease outbreak of known or unknown origin requiring State assistance.
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Chain of Custody & Laboratory Information
The Chain of Custody standard operating guide (SOG) provides guidance on how to fill out the Multi-patient Clinical Specimen Evidence Chain of Custody Receipt form.
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Community Alternate Care Site
The Alternate Care Site (ACS) Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) is intended to enhance community plans for managing a disaster that creates a surge of patients beyond community capabilities by providing additional facility care to ill patients who would otherwise seek care at hospitals and community health centers.
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Community Disease Containment Standard Operating Guidelines
The Community Disease Containment SOG provides counties with step-by-step instructions for reducing or minimizing the person-to-person spread of disease by separating individuals with disease or at increased risk for developing disease from individuals at lower risk.
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Community Mental Health Center Plan Template
Kansas has developed a plan template that describes the organization, scope, and expectations for the provision of disaster preparedness and response activities in order to provide CMHC’s the information necessary to develop their own unique all-hazards response plan.
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Dialysis Center Plan Template
This template is provided by KDHE and is a general emergency management plan for any dialysis center.
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EMS Planning Guidance
The EMS Planning Guidance document provides guidance to organizations and personnel starting the emergency planning process for the first time and to those reviewing or updating existing plans.
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Emergency Support Function (ESF) 8 Plan
The local Emergency Support Function (ESF) 8 - Health and Medical annex to the County Emergency Operations Plan provides information related to health and medical activities conducted in response to any incident.
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Fatality Management Information
Management of the dead is one of the most difficult aspects of disaster response, and natural disasters, in particular, can cause a large number of deaths.
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Hazard Vulnerability Assessment Tool
View documents related to the Hazard Vulnerability Assessment Tool.
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Health Care Coalition Response Plan (PDF)
View the Health Care Coalition Response Plan.
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Closed Point of Dispensing Plan for Hospitals
The purpose of developing a Closed Point of Dispensing (POD) Plan is to coordinate the planning and response actions of hospital during a public health emergency requiring medical countermeasures (usually oral medication or vaccinations) given to a group of people at risk of exposure to a disease.
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Hospital Continuity of Operations Plan
The purpose of the COOP plan is to establish policy and guidance to ensure that essential functions for hospitals are continued in the event that manmade, natural, or technological emergencies disrupt or threaten to disrupt normal operations.
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Hospital Emergency Operations Plan
This Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) is based on the Hospital Incident Command System (HICS).
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Local Public Health Continuity of Operations Plan
The purpose of the Local Public Health Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP) is to establish policy and guidance to ensure that essential functions for county health departments are continued in the event that manmade, natural, or technological emergencies disrupt or threaten to disrupt normal operations.
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Mass Care Health & Medical Tools (DOCX)
This tool has been developed in partnership with several programs at the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.
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Mass Dispensing
This standard operating guide may be used during an emergency for the management of medical materials from the state including Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) assets.
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Public Information & Communication
The Public Information & Communication Standard Operating Guide (PIC-SOG) provides step-by-step instructions, tools and templates for planning public information and communication activities to support Mass Dispensing operations consistent with the CDC Strategic National Stockpile Technical Assistance Review (SNS-TAR), as well as all-hazards public information preparedness and response activities.
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Safety Net Clinics Emergency Management Plan
KDHE and the Kansas Association for the Medically Underserved developed a comprehensive emergency management plan template to assist safety net clinics with preparing for and responding to disasters affecting clinics and communities.
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Volunteer Management
The purpose of these standard operating procedures (SOP) is to provide templates for volunteer management.