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Public Health Emergency Preparedness Program
Niagara County Department of Health
Emergency Preparedness Conference
The Niagara County Health Department’s mission is to protect the community from any potential or actual adverse event that detrimentally impacts public health. The Health Department aspires to perform any measures to prevent or lessen injuries, infections, illnesses and deaths resulting from disasters.
The Emergency Preparedness Division is responsible for preparing Niagara County for the unexpected. The staff is trained and provides the following services:
- Public health emergency response
- Mass medication/vaccination distribution
- Public health threat surveillance, detection, investigation, response and control
- Public health information and data technology
- Measures to protect the public’s health & safety
- Building public health critical infrastructure
- Building partnerships through liaison
- Inter-agency/community collaboration and coordination
- Cross-border and inter-jurisdictional planning
- Education and training
- Public information
- Risk communication
The Public Health Planning & Emergency Preparedness Division has formed a Public Health Emergency Response Team (PHERT) that would be activated during an emergency. Team members receive continuous training on incident command, radio and inter-agency communications, mass causality and mass exposure events and personal readiness.
Volunteers are an essential part of the Emergency Preparedness plan. The goal is to bring together the knowledge and skills of many different health professions to address and respond to public health crises. The volunteers would be mobilized during any event that would require additional staffing. Some examples of an emergency event that would require volunteer health / medical staff are pandemic flu, smallpox outbreak, large scale foodborne/waterborne outbreak or any large scale environmental exposure to disease event that exceeds the surge capacities of our hospitals, medical clinics, and related health systems.
The Niagara County Health Department is continuously recruiting volunteers. As part of the training process, the Public Health Emergency Response Team and volunteers participate in yearly drills and alerts.
Niagara County public health and medical partners routinely participate with their regional partners through monthly planning meetings, training opportunities, and an annual full-scale exercise.
The Public Health Planning & Emergency Preparedness Division is located at:
5467 Upper Mountain Road, Lockport, NY 14094-1894
Phone: (716) 439-7439 Fax: (716) 439-7440
In case of an actual emergency
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