Pandemic Influenza Plan - Questar III

Section 8: Travel-Related Disease Control and Community Prevention
treatment, if required, and other essential supplies/services (e.g., day care or
elder care) to those confined at home, hard to reach/special needs groups,
children, and persons with disabilities. Conduct training.
• Promote awareness of CDC and WHO travel advisories.
• During the pandemic alert period, implement individual-level containment
measures (e.g., patient isolation and identification, monitoring, and quarantine
of contacts) that may be useful in slowing the spread of pandemic influenza.
• Consider community-level containment measures that decrease social contact
within groups or whole communities (e.g., quarantine of groups of exposed
persons, cancellation of public events, closing recreational facilities, public
buildings, snow days, and self-shielding).
Schools, Workplaces:
• Develop a pandemic plan that includes continuity of essential operations and
modified operation during “snow days.” Identify procedures for issues related
to employment compensation and job security.
Shopping Areas, Theatres, Sports Arenas:
• Develop a pandemic plan for containment measures that decrease social
contact (e.g., cancellation of public events, closing recreational facilities and
public buildings, and snow days).
Pandemic Period
State Health Department:
• Early in the pandemic period, support federal quarantine station personnel at
all land, water, and air ports of entry.
• Implement procedures at the State-level for issues related to employment
compensation and job security.
• Determine when individual case management and travel-related containment
measures are not warranted and advise LHDs.
• Coordinate operation of isolation and quarantine as a back-up to LHD
capacity.
Local Health Departments:
• Implement community response plan for pandemic influenza in collaboration
with local partners.
• Isolate ill persons and quarantine contacts to the ill person arriving in an area
where influenza has not begun to circulate, as needed.
• Conduct assessments of homes and special isolation and quarantine facilities
to ensure their suitability for isolation and quarantine.
• Coordinate the monitoring of individuals in isolation and quarantine for as
long as individual case management is warranted.
• Coordinate operation of specialized isolation facilities, as needed.
• Coordinate community-level containment measures that decrease social
contact within groups or whole communities (e.g., quarantine of groups of
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