Initial Response

  • What is the scope of the incident and the response?
  • How will it affect service delivery?
  • Where are the impacted communities?
  • What population is impacted?
  • What is the anticipated medical surge?
  • Determine communication means
  • Evaluate healthcare organization, staff and supplies
  • Healthcare facility status
  • Consider healthcare facility incident command status
  • Determine health department status
  • Identify who need to know
  • Identify resources to be deployed
  • Consider healthcare facility decompression initiatives

Upcoming Events

Check Your Stigma at the Door

Advancing Health Equity through Collaboration and Accreditation

Crisis Emergency Risk Communication Training

# L 0146 Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program

Color Health Webinar "Reaching the Hardest to Reach: Creative Approaches to Public Health Service Delivery"

Congressional Briefing and National Webinar: Ready or Not 2023: Protecting the Public's Health from Diseases, Disasters, and Bioterrorism

Engaging Community Partners to Advance Nutrition and Physical Activity Equity

AWR-421 Demystifying Cyber Attacks

Strengthening Your Risk Assessment

Implementing the Use of ICS Forms

What About the Kids? Pediatric Disaster Preparedness

G290 Basic Public Information Officer (PIO)- SA1C

FEMA Co-Hosts Innovations in Inclusive Emergency Management Webinar

Emergency Preparedness Plan Workshop

Industry & Business Emergency Preparedness & Recovery Conference

All-Hazards Communications Unit Leader (COML)

G 191 Emergency Operations Center/Incident Command System Interface

Rescue Task Force - Hostile Event Interdiction: Unified Response by Law Enforcement, Fire and EMS

Top 5 Iowa EMS Agency Reauthorization Issues- Virtual

Building Trust and Trustworthiness in Public Health

Quarter 3 EMS Collaboration Committee Meeting

When and How to Respond to Public Health Misinformation

Reframing the Conversation about Child and Adolescent Vaccinations

REFRESHER EMS MEDICAL DIRECTOR AND SERVICE DIRECTOR WORKSHOP

INTRODUCTORY EMS MEDICAL DIRECTOR AND SERVICE DIRECTOR WORKSHOP

REFRESHER EMS MEDICAL DIRECTOR AND SERVICE DIRECTOR WORKSHOP

Enhancing Equity in Lead Service Line Replacement Programs

CISA Active Shooter Preparedness Webinar

An Introduction to Incident Action Planning

Shake Rattle & Roll- Pediatric Seizures- Virtual

IASA5HCC Radiation Surge Tabletop Exercise

SA5 Local Public Health Plans Workshop: POD Plans

R7DHRE Webinar: Are You Ready? Community Members as Responders During a Disaster

The ISO Grading Schedule A Guide to Improving Your Community’s Fire Protection Class

Learn the Signs of Human Trafficking

Introduction to Radiation Safety

Introduction to Radiological Incident

An Introduction to the Incident Command System (ICS)

G 364 Multi-Hazard Emergency Planning for Schools

ChemLock: Secure Your Chemicals Security Planning Training

ChemLock: Introduction to Chemical Security Training Course

2023 International Association of Emergency Managers Annual Conference

Human Trafficking Awareness Day- Recorded Webinars

North American Virtual Training and Exercise Conference 2023

Advanced Hazmat Life Support (AHLS) Instructor Course

Advanced Hazmat Life Support (AHLS) Provider Course

Shake Rattle and Roll - Pediatric Seizures- Virtual

Polio Resurgence: Guidance for Health Care Workers

Mass Casualty Incidents Conference

2023 25th Annual Emergency Management Higher Education Symposium

Safely Exercising Your Active Threat Plan

Pursuing environmental justice and equity

Iowa Grants Overview session- Virtual

How Health Centers Can Take Action to Prevent Type 2 Diabetes

K 202 Debris Management for State, Tribal, Territorial and Local Officials- Virtual

G 191 Emergency Operations Center/Incident Command System Interface

Rescue Task Force - Hostile Event Interdiction: Unified Response by Law Enforcement, Fire and EMS

EMPD-Emergency Mgmt Program Development Session #1

K 0418 Mass Care/Emergency Assistance Planning and Operations- Virtual

PER 404: Logistic and Supply Chain Resilience in Disasters- Virtual

PER 404: Logistic and Supply Chain Resilience in Disasters- Virtual

AWR 232: Mass Fatalities Planning and Response for Rural Communities

Virtual SA5 EMResource Training

SA5 NIMS/ICS Roles Training and NIMSCAST Workshop

Virtual Advanced Epidemiology Training

Continuity of Operations (COOP) Virtual Tabletop Exercise

Continuity of Operations (COOP) Planning Workshop- Virtual

MGT 406: Community Threat Group Identification, Assessment and Information Reporting for Rural Law Enforcement Officers

PER-316 Radiological Accident Assessment Concepts (RAAC)

K 202 Debris Management for State, Tribal, Territorial and Local Officials- Virtual

AWR 219-C Site Protection through Observational Techniques- Virtual

Flooding Hazards: Science & Preparedness (AWR-362)- Virtual

AWR 356 Community Planning for Disaster Recovery- Virtual

Anxiety Reduction and Self-Care

Anxiety Reduction and Self-Care

Anxiety Reduction and Self-Care

Stepping Up as a Supervisor: What the Data Tells Us

Health Center Preparations for Clinical Care after the End of the Public Health Emergency

Alert Iowa - Administrator Training

ASIST Suicide Intervention First Aid Class (First Responders)

Infection Prevention and Control: Incorporating Lessons Learned in Managing Special Pathogens

NECP Webinar: Be Prepared! Cyber Incident Response Planning for Emergency Communications

Handtevy Pre-Hospital Pediatric Provider Course

EMS Leadership Pinnacle: Cases from the Fitch Files

Bridging Political Divides to Strengthen Public Health

The Difficult Airway Course: EMS

Starting Your Continuity of Operations (COOP) Planning

Optimizing Your After-Action Report / Improvement Plan (AAR/IP)

Social Media Tools and Techniques (PER-344)- Virtual

Winter Weather Hazards: Science and Preparedness (AWR-331)

Social Media Engagement Strategies (PER-343)- Virtual

Hanging on by a Thread? Let's Talk!

Hanging on by a Thread? Let's Talk!

MERRTT – Modular Emergency Response Radiological Transportation Training

Sheltering Bootcamp Training With the Red Cross

Sheltering Bootcamp Training With the Red Cross

Virtual Pediatric Trauma Conference

2022 Virtual Iowa Infection Prevention and Control Conference

2022 National Healthcare Coalition Preparedness Conference

Women Without Limits Leadership Conference

Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management Conference

Bomb-Making Materials Awareness Program (BMAP) First Responder Emergency Services Explosives (FRESE) Briefing

MGT 318 Public Information in an All-Hazards Incident

MGT 324-C Campus Emergencies Prevention, Response and Recovery

MGT 343 Disaster Management for Water and Wastewater Utilities

AWR 219-C Site Protection through Observational Techniques

Marion Co- MGT 318 Public Information in an All-Hazards Incident

BMAP - Retail Explosives Awareness Prevention and Reporting Briefing

AWR 308 Natural Disaster Awareness for Caregivers of Sr Citizens

Vulnerable Populations & Access Functional Needs Workshop 2

Vulnerable Populations & Access Functional Needs Workshop 1

BMAP - First Responder Emergency Services Explosives (FRESE) Briefing

EMS Workplan Kickoff Meeting

Basic Public Information Officer Course in Service Area 7

MGT 403 Access and Functional Needs Preparedness Planning for Rural Communities

MGT 345 Disaster Management For Electric Power Systems

AWR 331 Winter Weather Hazards: Science and Preparedness

MGT 341 Disaster Preparedness for Hospital and Healthcare Organizations within the Community Infra

Leadership Media Awareness Training for Senior Officials

Medical Director/Service Director Workshop- Introductory and Refresher

Medical Director/Service Director Workshop- Refresher

EMS Medical Director and Service Director Workshop- Refresher

Emergency Medical Services for Children Symposium: Adolescent Suicide: Emergency Care for the Silent Epidemic

G290 Basic PIO Training Opportunity - Save the Date

Service Area 5 HCC PHEP/EMS Technical Assistance Meeting

Service Area 1C / Marion County - Salamander Training

Heartland EMS for Children virtual pediatric symposium, "From Accidents to Abuse: Treating Pediatric Burns."

NYU Health Disparities Symposium (FREE +FREE CMEs)

Service Area 5 EMS Collaboration Committee Meeting (11/8/21)

Service Area 5 POD Workbook: Work Session Opportunity

MGT 439 Pediatric Disaster Response & Emergency Preparedness

PER211 – Medical Management of Chem, Bio, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive Events

MGT 348: Medical Preparedness and Response for Bombing Incidents (TEEX)

Toxicological Opioids & LVAD's

Staying in Control in an Era of Drug Shortages (EMS World)

Area 5 Healthcare Coalition Meeting (9/7/2021)

#G 191 Incident Command System Emergency Operations Center Interface

AWR 209: Working with The Media

Service Area 5 Executive Committee Meeting

Service Area 5 Executive Committee Meeting

Service Area 5 Executive Committee Meeting

Service Area 5 Executive Committee Meeting

Service Area 5 Executive Committee Meeting

Service Area 5 Executive Committee Meeting

Service Area 5 Executive Committee Meeting

Service Area 5 Executive Committee Meeting

Service Area 5 Executive Committee Meeting

Service Area 5 Executive Committee Meeting

Service Area 5 Executive Committee Meeting

Active Shooter Response Tabletop

Service Area 5 Healthcare Coalition Meeting

Service Area 5 Healthcare Coalition Meeting

Service Area 5 Healthcare Coalition Meeting

Service Area 5 Healthcare Coalition Meeting

Service Area 5 Healthcare Coalition Meeting

Service Area 5 Healthcare Coalition Meeting

Service Area 5 Healthcare Coalition Meeting

Service Area 5 HCC Coalition Meeting

Service Area 5 HCC Coalition Meeting

Pediatric Continuing Education on Poisons: Free Cont. Education

National Virtual Conference on Health Communication, Marketing & Media (Free)

Service Area 5 EMS Collaboration Committee Meeting

HPP/PHEP Commuication Administrator Work (Website)

Service Area 5 EMS Fiscal/Budget Training Opportunity

Service Area 5 Executive Committee Meeting

Service Area 5 Healthcare Coalition: FY22 Workplan Overview

Service Area 5 Healthcare Coalition Meeting

Service Area 5 Vulnerable Populations & Access Functional Needs Workshop 2

Date Change: SA5 Vulnerable Populations & Access Functional Needs Workshop

Service Area Redundant Communications Drill (#2)

Service Area 5 Redundant Communication Drill

EMS FY22 Letter of Intent Due

AHLS Provider/Instructor Course (Advanced HAZMAT Life Support)

IDPH Facilitated: Burn Workgroup

Active Shooter Planning Meeting: SA5 Sub-Committee

Region V Hospital/Med Surge Bed Meeting

IDPH Grant Coordinator & Fiscal Administrator FY22 Meeting

Public Health FY22 Letter of Intent/Participation Due

Area 5 Healthcare Coalition Meeting

National EMS Week: Caring for Our Communities

Service Area 5 Active Shooter Planning Session 2

Service Area 5 Active Shooter Planning Session 1

Iowa Governor's Conference on Substance Abuse

ACOEM’s 4th COVID-19 Virtual Symposium Navigating a Post-Vaccine World: Virus, Vaccine, and Variants

Service Area 5 Bi-Annual Vulnerable Populations Work Session (HHS emPOWER/SVI)

Last Day for Pre-Approval Submissions to IDPH

Fiscal Year 21-2022 Start

K 2300 Intermediate EOC Functions (Virtual Course)

National Healthcare Coalition Preparedness Conference

Service Area 5 Healthcare Coalition Meeting

Service Area 5 Communication Platform

The Iowa Governor's Conference on Public Health

EMS System Standards/Advisory Council Training Opportunity

EMS System Standards/Advisory Council Training Opportunity

PH NIMS PIO Improvement Planning Discussion: COVID 19, NIMS Training, Best Practices

Public Health/EMS and EMA Partner EMResource Training Opportunity

Public Health/EMS and EMA Partner EMResource Training Opportunity

Service Area 5 EMS Collaboration Committee Quarterly Meetings (6:15-7:30 p.m.)

Advanced EMS Refresher--Lee County (Provided by Laurie Riddle)

Basic EMS Refresher--Lee County (Provided by Laurie Riddle)

Disability Inclusion & Emergency Preparedness Webinar

Service Area 5 HCC: PUBLIC HEALTH POD AAR/IP

MGT 319 – Medical Countermeasures: Points of Dispensing (TEEX)

*MGT 403 Access and Functional Needs Preparedness Planning for Rural Communities (Rural Training)

Overdose Recognition & Naloxone Training: First Responders (AZ Telemedicine Program)

SARS-CoV-2: Mutations and Variants and Strains (Oh My!) (NETC)

First Responder Resiliency (Project Echo)

Global Conversations Vaccine Hesitancy (Project Echo)

Refresher Workshop (IEMSA)

Prehospital 12-lead ECG Interpretation: Essentially Speaking… (NAEMT)

Service Area 5 Healthcare Coalition Meeting

Region V EMS Collaboration Committee

IDPH Grant Coordinator/Fiscal Meeting

Area 5 Healthcare Coalition Meeting

Infectious Disease Annex Workgroup- Coordinators

State Grant Coordinators Meeting

EMS Strategic Planning Resource Guide: Training Development Workgroup

EMS Strategic Planning Resource Guide: Training Devel. Workgroup

Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP) HHS Webinar

Project Workplan: Access Functional Needs (SVI/HHS emPOWER data Review)

Free, Excellent Event for QC Red Ribbon Week Virtual Event Featuring Tim Ryan

Johnson County Public Health Flu Clinic/POD Event Opportunity: Must contact agency if interested.

COVID-19 Update for Outpatient and Small & Rural Hospitals for Region VII

Service Area 5 EMS Project Workplan Development (Session 2)

Grant Coordinator Meeting w/ IDPH

Service Area 5 EMS Project Workplan Development: EMS Advisory Group

DHS Region 7 / NETEC Online COVID Training Course Oct. 7th

Service Area 5 Healthcare Coalition Meeting

Service Area 5 Healthcare Coalition Meeting

Service Area 5 Coalition Meeting

EMResource Webinar Training: Keokuk County PH

Stewide Pediatric Surge Annex TTX

Service Area 5 Health Alert Network (HAN) Training for EMS

CANCELLED: NETEC Frontline Course

CANCELLED: NETEC Frontline Course

Canceled: Service Area 5 Spring Epi Update

EMS and ALL Training Opportunity: Anticipating the Unthinkable

Intermediate Emergency Operations Center Functions

10:00-12:00pm: Coalition Surge Exercise Facilitated Discussion & AAR (Web EX)

Tentative/Considering Webinar with IDPH approval: Service Area 5A Technical Assistance Meeting

CANCELLED: PEDIATRIC DISASTER RESPONSE AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS MGT-439

CANCELLED: Quad Cities Regional Disaster Pre-Conference

SERVICE AREA 1C EMS CONTINUING-EDUCATION CONFERENCE

EMS TRAINING OPPORTUNITY: Two Wheel Trauma class by Pocahontas Community Hospital

CANCELLED: SNS Training (Rescheduled from January)

EMS TRAINING OPPORTUNITY - Center Point Regional Ambulance Service

EMS TRAINING OPPORTUNITY - Iowa County EMS Day

EMS TRAINING OPPORTUNITY - Johnson County EMS Day

EMS TRAINING OPPORTUNITY - Jefferson County EMS Day is Feb 22nd

EMS TRAINING OPPORTUNITY - Bellevue EMS Day

EMS TRAINING OPPORTUNITY - Integrated Response Conference February 28th, 2020

CANCELLED: PEDIATRIC DISASTER RESPONSE AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS MGT-439

CANCELLED DUE TO LOW ENROLLMENT - MGT-905/L400 Advanced Incident Command Course

Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP)

Multi-Agency Resource Center Training

Medical Countermeasures class instructed by TEEX

CANCELLED: QC Regional Disaster Conference

PRE-HOSPITAL TRAUMA LIFE SUPPORT (PHTLS) REFRESHER

PRE-HOSPITAL TRAUMA LIFE SUPPORT (PHTLS) 9th Edition Hybrid Provider Part 2

PRE-HOSPITAL TRAUMA LIFE SUPPORT (PHTLS) 9th Edition Hybrid Provider part 1

Disaster Relief: MARC Planning

Webinar: Executive Committee Meeting

PRIMARY SERVICE AREA WORK PLAN COORDINATION WEBINAR

Pre hospital 12 Lead ECGs: Application to Paramedic Clinical Practice - Free CEHs

Retirement Party & 70th Birthday Celebration: Denny Coon

Retirement Party & 70th Birthday Celebration: Denny Coon

Service Area 5 Winter Epi Update

G 489 Management of Spontaneous Volunteers in Disasters

BASIC PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER CLASS

Multi-Disciplinary Trauma Conference

Multi-Disciplinary Trauma Conference

Psychological First Aid - Ames, IA

CMS Full Scale Exercise Opportunity (Eastern Iowa)

Human Trafficking Awareness Training

Human Trafficking Awareness Training

LAST DAY TO REGISTER FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING SEMINAR IN CLINTON COUNTY SEE DATE FOR MORE DETAILS

E m e r g e n c y O p e r a t i o n s C e n t e r ( E O C ) O p e r a t i o n s a n d P l a n n i n g f o r A l l - H a z a r d s E v e n t s

Pre-hospital 12 Lead ECGs: Application to Paramedic Clinical Practice

Pre hospital 12 Lead ECG s: Application to Paramedic Clinical Practice

Business (Steering Committee) Meeting (Chair—Scott)

Executive Committee Meeting - Face to Face

Business (Steering Committee) Meeting (Chair—Jackson County)

Executive Committee Meeting Conference Call - 3:45 PM

Webinar: Business (Steering Committee) Meeting (Chair—Clinton County)

ECC (EMS Collaboration Committee)

Business (Steering Committee) Meeting (Chair—Cedar County)

Executive Committee Meeting - 3:45 PM

Business (Steering Committee) Meeting (Chair—Washington)

Executive Committee Meeting Quarterly WEBEX

Business (Steering Committee) Meeting - (Chair-Scott)

Combined 5A and 5B Technical Assistance Meeting 10:00 A.M.

Business (Steering Committee) Meeting

Executive Committee Meeting - 3:45 PM

PEDS Planning Seminar: Tentative

Rural Overdose Stakeholder Meeting

Pediatric Response Planning Seminar: Regional Pediatric Response WorkGroup

Coalition Surge Test Training for HCC Members and Assessors (#2)

Service Area 5A Coalition Surge Training for HCC Members & Assessors

Service Area 5A Executive Committee Meeting Face 2 Face

Service Area 5A Business Meeting

LAST DAY TO REGISTER FOR START TRIAGE IN FAIRFIELD IS 9/17/2019

Service Area 5 HCC Pod Tabletop: Please Register!

You are invited to attend Tools for Building Resilience

9/19/2019 Regional Pediatric Planning Work Session

JUST ADDED - Registration Open for MGT 416 - Last Day to Register September 7, 2019 - Class is scheduled for September 21, 2019

MGT 416: Introduction to Continuity of Government Planning for Rural Jurisdictions

QCRDC Planning Committee Meeting @ SECC

8/21/2019 Pediatric Planning Work Group

Service Area 5 EMS EMResource Training Opportunities

Service Area 5 EMS EMResource Training Opportunities

Extreme Weather in Iowa Symposium

Service Area 5A HCC Business Meeting (WebEx Only)

Service Area 5A Executive Committee Conference Call

LAST DAY TO REGISTER FOR RDPC AWR COURSE: Crisis Management for School-Based Incidents - Partnering Rural Law Enforcement, First Responders, and Local School Systems

Foreign Animal Disease Trainging

CMS Tabletop Train the Trainer

9/6/2019 Hospital Continuity of Operations Planning Workshop (FACE 2 FACE)

Service Area 5 Hospital Continuity of Operations (COOP) WebEx

Service Area 5 Hospital Incident Command Systems (HICS) Training & SHL TOUR

FY20 TEPW & Training and Exercise Plan Approval

Service Area 5A Coalition (Business) Meeting

Service Area 5A F2F Executive Committee Meeting

Service Area 5A Executive Committee Meeting

UPDATE: MGT 439 Pediatric Disaster Response and Emergency Preparedness Program

UPDATED LOCATION: MGT 439 Pediatric Disaster Response and Emergency Preparedness Program

IOWA SERVICE AREA 5 COMBINED MEETING—June 7, 2019

CANCELLED - MGT-319 and it will be held at JoCo EMA on 9/12-9/13.

CANCELED: Annual Service Area 5A EMA and Public Health Communication Training

ECC (EMS Collaboration Committee)

ECC (EMS Collaboration Committee)

Iowa Service Area 5A - Salamander Training

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