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Drill of the Dead: Using Zombie Scenarios to Train Community Partners

Adam Powers, BS Preparedness Training and Exercise Coordinator Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services Brett Lloyd, BS, MEP, CHEC Owner and Senior Consultant Spartan Consulting Sue Hansen, BSN, RN Director Beaverhead County Public Health

Polling Question

Imagine you work for a small rural health department with five employees. You are planning a mass dispensing exercise in three months and want to engage the community. What are the biggest challenges you think you’ll encounter?

Type your response into the chat box.

Drill of the Dead Design

Adam Powers, BS Preparedness Training and Exercise Coordinator Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services

• Population: 9,200 people, eight communities • Size: 5,500 square miles • College, Hospital, HazMat Team, Public Health

Department is a staff of three

Background Information

Beaverhead County

Building Block Approach to Exercises

Tabletop Emergency Operations Center

Spring 2012

Small Scale Point of Dispensing Exercise

Summer 2012

Large Community Mass Dispensing

Exercise

Fall 2012

Request Support From Region and State Resources

Engage New Hospital Facility

• Need to stress system, need for more bodies

• Halloween timeframe • Success of CDC “Zombie

Preparedness” campaign • Novel outbreak

Why Zombie Virus?

Exercise Development

• Community emergency operations center activation and coordination

• Joint public information • Public health mass dispensing • Public health point of dispensing operations • Healthcare shelter in place • Healthcare and fire mass decontamination

Polling Question

Have you ever tried to sell an unconventional idea to leadership?

If yes, describe in the chat box.

• Stakeholder visits and buy in • Press • Posters • Moulage demonstrations • Briefings • Website • Humans vs. Zombies tag

Marketing

• Fact sheet • Zombies in real life • Zombie bites triage tags • Just In Time training

Exercise Design Tools

Background Information for Staff

• Zombivir (Kisses) • Gummivir (Gummy Brains) • Life Savers (Sugar Free)

Just In Time Training

“Treat”-ments

• Screening form • Co-worker dispatch form • Zombie disease

preparedness brochure

Exercise Design Tools: Worksheets

Fun Worksheets

• Local to state request for strategic national stockpile

• Evaluation forms – Homeland Security Exercise

and Evaluation program – Centers for Disease Control

and Prevention – Technical Assistance Review

• Situational manual, exercise plan, after action report/improvement plan, communications plan, medical plan

Exercise Design Tools: Worksheets

Necessary Worksheets

Conducting Drill of the Dead

By Brett “Loco” Lloyd President Spartan Consulting

• Moulage • Western Montana

College • Beaverhead County High

School • Dillon Middle School

Venues – Exercise Set Up

Barrett Hospital & HealthCare Field Decontamination

Venues – Exercise Play

Emergency Operations Center

Venues – Exercise Play

Venues POD Site

Screening

Dispensing

Education

Triage

Registration

Security

Debrief

Mental Health

• 125 Responders • 4 Controllers • 8 Facilitators • 14 Observers • 437 Victim Players

(2 Locations)

Participants

Participants

Public Health, Sheriff’s Office, Disaster and Emergency Services, Emergency Management Services, Search and Rescue, Commission

COUNTY

Cities, Police Departments, Fire Departments, HazMat Team, Hospitals, Schools

CITY

Department of Public Health and Human Services, Governor’s Office of Community Service, Disaster and Emergency Services, Montana Youth Challenge, University of Montana Western

STATE

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, American Red Cross, National Guard, HOSA Future Health Professionals

NATIONAL

Multi-County Public Health Emergency Plan collaborative OTHER

Drill of the Dead Lessons Learned

By Sue “the Huntsman” Hansen Beaverhead County Health Director

• Community Engagement – Ask and they will come – Have a role

• Point of Dispensing Operations

Public Health Implications

• Just In Time Training – Be on time – Have a handout – Delegate

• Sustainability – Can cover 1st shift – Need qualified staff to

lead second shift – Run out of volunteers

quick

Public Health Implications

• Developing an Incident Action Plan – Game plan – Communications – Resolve resource

shortages early

Conducting Emergency Operations

• Role of the Incident Commander – Coordination – Pull in trained general

staff (plans, logistics) – If you don’t know, ask

Conducting Emergency Operations

• Mass Care – Impact to medical

facilities – Maintaining sanitation

• Security – Personal – Accountability of staff

• Incident Command – Incident action plan – Coordinating meetings

Application to 2013 Rainbow Family Gathering

Adam Powers, BS Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services apowers@mt.gov 406-444-3045 Brett Lloyd, BS, MEP, CHEC Spartan Consulting brett@spartanmt.com 406-431-9386 Sue Hansen, BSN, RN Beaverhead County Public Health shansen@beaverheadcounty.org 406-683-3179

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