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Contact the County Orange County Seal

Health Disaster
Management Division

 

Holly Veale
Division Manager
(714)-834-6167
hveale@ochca.com

Erik Lowman
Bioterrorism Preparedness
and Grants Manager
(714)-834-6281
elowman@ochca.com

Greg Boswell, RN
Emergency Medical Services
(714)834-2791
gboswell@ochca.com

Deborah Morton, RN, BSN,
MPH
Planning Manager
(714)-834-6235
dmorton@ochca.com

Dorothy Hendrickson
Hospital Preparedness
Program Manager
(714)-560-6156
dhendrickson@ochca.com

Kerri Musgrave
Bioterrorism
Preparedness  Manager
(714)-437-5761
kfogh@ochca.com

Keith Olenslager, MPH
Pandemic Preparedness
Manager
(714)-667-8328
kolenslager@ochca.com

Elizabeth Daoust, MPH,
CHES
SNS Coordinator
(714)-834-6231
edaoust@ochca.com

Alison Kellman,
Cities Readiness Initiative
Coordinator
714-667-8324
akellman@ochca.com

 

 

Health Disaster Management (HDM)  >  Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP)

Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP)

The Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP) is a federally-funded initiative that enhances the ability of Orange County hospitals and health care systems to prepare for and respond to public health emergencies, whether naturally occurring or man-made. Under HPP, the State allocates funds to counties along with guidance to reach certain critical benchmark requirements: regional surge capacity, equipment, patient tracking, interoperable communications, training and exercises. Current priority areas include communication systems, bed tracking, casualty management planning, and hospital evacuations.

The HPP offers Orange County hospital, ambulance and community clinic staff various emergency response trainings, such as:

  • Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, & Explosive (CBRNE) Threats

  • Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)

  • Hospital Incident Command System (HICS)

  • Incident Command System 100, 200 & 700

  • Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

  • Decontamination Capabilities

  • Vortran Ventilator System

  • DuoDote Nerve Agent Antidote

These trainings ensure standardization of equipment and competency-based instruction for health care personnel responding to a terrorist incident or other public health emergency. These trainings are for medical and allied health care personnel ONLY, not the general public.

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