The next pandemic: Anticipating an overwhelmed health care system

Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 351-358

  Duley, Mary Grace Keating ^a  

^a CDC   (United States)

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EID: 53549108316     PISSN: 00440086     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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References (12)

1. National Bioterrorism Hospital Preparedness Program, Cooperative Agreement Guidance. US DHHS HRSA. May 2, 2003, p 2.
2. National Bioterrorism Hospital Preparedness Program, FY2005 Continuation Guidance. HRSA Announcement Number 5-U3R-05-001. pp 18-40.
3. In 2002, both Yale-New Haven Health System (comprised of Bridgeport Hospital, Greenwich Hospital and Yale-New Haven Hospital) and Hartford Hospital were given the title of Centers of Excellence by the DPH Commissioner since they were both large academic centers and would be able to work closely with DPH to assist the hospitals in their respective areas with the various planning initiatives that needed to take place. Hartford Hospital, in the northern part of the state, has 15 hospitals specifically assigned to assist the department in working with, and Yale-New Haven Health System, in the southern part of the state, works closely with the 17 hospitals in that area. Their respective infectious disease specialists work very closely with DPH and provide guidance and strategies to assist the hospitals in their planning efforts, which in this case specifically is pandemic influenza preparedness planning.
4. Checklist developed for Connecticut's acute care hospitals, modified by Yale New Haven Health System (YNHHS) from the US Dept of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Pandemic Influenza Plan. Supplement 3, November 2005.
5. Checklist developed for Connecticut's CHCs, modified from the YNHHS CoE hospital checklist, which was based on the DHHS, Pandemic Influenza Plan, Supplement 3, November 2005.
6. HRSA NBHPP Program Guidance for Fiscal Year 2006. Released July 2, 2006.
7. Excerpt from the description of medical surge capacity activities and expectations to include in Connecticut's CDC Phase 1 Pan Flu funding progress report and the CDC Phase 2 pan flu funding application developed by DPH employees Albert Geetter and John Bigos.
8. US Pandemic Flu Plan, Annex 2: Health Care System Guidance. November 2005, pp 2-4.
9. Canadian Pandemic Influenza Plan, February 2004, Annex H: Resource Management Guidelines for Health Care Facilities during an Influenza Pandemic.
10. Osterholm MT. Preparing for the next pandemic. NEJM 2005;352:3.
11. In Connecticut, all the hospitals have been meeting on a monthly basis to discuss and work on the various initiatives required by the grant. Mary Duley, hospital preparedness coordinator, or her designee, is always at these meetings, providing the hospitals with updates regarding the various surge planning initiatives. Since early fall 2005, pandemic influenza planning has been an agenda item, and will continue to be as the months move ahead.
12. Content of regional stockpiles not decided at the time of this printing.