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Pandemic Influenza Plan - Questar III

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Section 8: Travel-Related Disease Control and Community Prevention<br />

seeking assistance from the court. These models may be used as is or the LHD may<br />

choose to modify them as necessary to meet the needs of the particular situation,<br />

especially with regard to quarantine. We encourage LHDs to add or remove provisions<br />

or change the language of the agreements as necessary to make them more patientspecific.<br />

Section 1, Command and Control, contains appendices on the NYSDOH General<br />

Counsel’s opinion regarding the quarantine powers of local health officers and boards of<br />

health, and the NYS Education Law regarding school closure during an emergency.<br />

IV. Roles and Responsibilities by <strong>Pandemic</strong> Period<br />

Interpandemic and <strong>Pandemic</strong> Alert Periods<br />

State Health Department:<br />

• Develop plans with state partners on how the state will respond to pandemic<br />

influenza, including law enforcement, first responders, healthcare facilities,<br />

mental health professionals, local businesses, and the legal community.<br />

Address legal, logistic, and social challenges associated with individual and<br />

community-based containment measures. Identify procedures at the Statelevel<br />

for issues related to employment compensation and job security.<br />

• Identify potential surge capacity for isolation and quarantine as a back-up to<br />

LHD capacity.<br />

• Advise LHDs when to implement isolation of ill persons and quarantine of<br />

contacts arriving from an area where pandemic influenza has emerged.<br />

• Review pertinent legal authorities and how they apply in a public health<br />

emergency, in particular, laws and procedures for closing businesses or<br />

schools and suspending public meetings during a declared state of emergency.<br />

• Improve readiness to implement travel-related disease containment measures.<br />

• Provide public health information to travelers who visit areas countries where<br />

pandemic influenza has been reported.<br />

• Investigate illness among travelers returning from affected areas and<br />

implement isolation and quarantine, as needed.<br />

Local Health Departments:<br />

• Develop a community response plan for pandemic influenza in collaboration<br />

with local partners, including law enforcement, first responders, healthcare<br />

facilities, mental health professionals, local businesses, and the legal<br />

community.<br />

• Develop plans for isolating ill persons and quarantining of contacts at home<br />

and at special isolation and quarantine facilities, including identification of<br />

appropriate staff. Conduct training.<br />

• Develop plans to provide community support services for the provision of<br />

food, water, medicine and medical consultation, transportation to medical<br />

February 7, 2006 8-10

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