Preparedness
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Public Health Preparedness
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Our state's public health depends on the ability of our Department and partners to prevent, protect against, mitigate, respond to, and recover from public health threats, whether natural or man-made.
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'''Healthy New Jersey 2020 Objectives:'''
*'''PHP-1''': Reduce the time necessary to issue official information to the public about a public health emergency to 5 hours.
*'''PHP-2 (Revised)''': Reduce the time necessary to activate designated personnel in response to a public health emergency to 60 minutes. ''Original target: 100 minutes''
*'''PHP-3 (Revised)''': Reduce the time for State public health agencies to implement corrective action items contained within after action reports and improvement plans following responses to public health emergencies and exercises to 90 days.
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'''Original Healthy New Jersey 2020 Objective PHP-3''': Reduce the time for State public health agencies to establish after action reports and improvement plans following responses to public health emergencies and exercises to 120 days.
The turnaround time necessary to issue official information to the public about a public health emergency is mostly limited by personal interactions of the creators of the official information. Once that is completed, the actual dissemination via IT systems is virtually instantaneous.
The time necessary to activate designated personnel met the Healthy New Jersey 2020 objective in 2012 due to technical improvements in the NJLINCS Communicator software. An additional time decrease the following year was due to reorganizing team rosters and call-down procedures. The time increased in 2017 due to a structural change in how the emergency drill is conducted, administered, and evaluated.
Hurricane Irene, in 2011, and Superstorm Sandy, in 2012, required much longer than average time to create after action reports. If those events are excluded from analysis, the annual averages for those two years would be closer to the 2013 figure, which is below the 2020 target.
Since the target for the original Objective PHP-3 was met and maintained, a new objective was created to replace it that focuses on implementation of plans, rather than just the establishment of plans.
NJDOH Office of Disaster Resilience: [http://nj.gov/health/er/]
[https://www.nj.gov/health/er/ Emergency Preparedness] information in English and Spanish
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01/03/2023
2009-2014 data provided by Ross Ninger and entered by MLB 7/14/15
2010-2014 data provided by Brendan McCluskey and entered by MLB 9/29/15
Not reviewed by Ross or Brendan
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01/03/2023
Status changed by: mbaron
01/03/2023
PREP-2
Reduce the time necessary to activate designated personnel in response to a public health emergency
PREP
PREP-2
Reduce the time necessary to activate designated personnel in response to a public health emergency
60 minutes
60 minutes (revised target)
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12/13/2017
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Preparedness.Info
Time Necessary to
Issue Official Information to the Public about a Public Health Emergency, New Jersey,
2009-2020
Hours
Preparedness.Activate
Time Necessary to
Activate Designated Personnel in Response to a Public Health Emergency, New Jersey,
2011-2020
Minutes
Preparedness.AARimplement
Time Necessary to
Implement Corrective Action Items Contained in After Action Reports and Improvement Plans Following Responses to Public Health Emergencies and Exercises, New Jersey,
2016-2019
Days
Preparedness.AAR
Time Necessary to
Establish After Action Reports and Improvement Plans Following Responses to Public Health Emergencies and Exercises, New Jersey,
2010-2014
Days