We use three main grants to help keep our community safe and healthy:
Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP)
Since 2002, this national program has helped public health departments across the country get ready for emergencies. This program provides important funding that helps us:
Prepare for many types of emergencies:
- Disease outbreaks (like COVID-19 or flu)
- Natural disasters (like wildfires or floods)
- Biological incidents
- Chemical incidents
- Nuclear or radiological events
- Other public health threats
This funding helps us:
- Create emergency plans that can change based on the situation
- Train our local health department staff
- Get emergency supplies and equipment ready
- Work closely with other emergency agencies
- Practice responding to different types of emergencies
- Keep our emergency plans up-to-date
- Make sure we can act quickly when emergencies happen
Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP)
This program helps our local healthcare system - including hospitals, clinics, and nursing homes - work together during big emergencies. Through HPP, we:
Provide Leadership and Funding:
- Help healthcare facilities prepare for emergencies
- Create guidelines for emergency planning
- Support training and exercises
- Provide resources for emergency response
Build Healthcare Coalitions:
- Bring together healthcare organizations that might normally compete
- Help different healthcare groups work together
- Encourage sharing of resources and information
- Build partnerships before emergencies happen
- Support training exercises that prepare healthcare workers
- Help healthcare organizations handle all types of emergencies
Pandemic Flu Preparedness
This program specifically helps us get ready for disease outbreaks in Calaveras County. The funding supports PHEP and HPP goals while helping us:
Plan Ahead:
- Create plans for giving vaccines to many people quickly
- Prepare to respond to any size disease outbreak
- Make sure we can reach everyone in our community
- Have systems ready to give out medicine and vaccines
- Work with doctors, clinics, and pharmacies
Stay Ready:
- Keep our medical supplies updated
- Train staff on the latest response methods
- Practice our emergency plans regularly
- Work with other counties and the state
- Learn from each experience to improve our plans
- Expand our planning, training, and testing of mass vaccination responses