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Arkansas Dept of Health

Kim R. Sutphin MPH, MBA

PHP Senior EpidemiologistAR CRA Lead Coordinator

CRA Obstacles Met and Overcome

Pilot 2007AND THE FUTURE

Acknowledge

James Hicks – PHIN Lead Coordinator Alyce Wagner – Pan Flu Coordinator Deborah Biddle – HAN Unit Coordinator

This is B.T.

Arkansas and Dept of Health

Arkansas & the Department of Health @ 2.8 million 1 Centralized Health Department 75 Counties

5 Public Health Regions (SE, NE, C, SW, NW) At least 75 LHU w/few counties with more

Purpose

2. Dates, Places, Demographics of Pilot Sites

2. Dates, Places, Demographics of Pilot Sites

3. Successes and Limitations3. Successes and Limitations

5. The Future5. The Future

1. CRA Plan1. CRA Plan

4. What’s needed to Establish & Run Clinics - Preparation of Pandemic

4. What’s needed to Establish & Run Clinics - Preparation of Pandemic

Put the Mask on Yourself First

Arkansas CRA Cycle

Interoperability & Integration

Interoperability & Integration

PriorityProject

Option3

Pilot&

Exercises

Standardization

CRA

Arkansas’ CRA Plan

Leadership

How Our Agency is affected by:

Dates, Places, Demo ‘07 Pilot

November 13th – Saline Co.November 14th – Arkansas Co.

November 13th – Saline Co.November 14th – Arkansas Co.

DatesPlacesDemographics

DatesPlacesDemographics

Pilot 1 - 2007Pilot 1 - 2007 InformationInformation

Co. Population

Saline 94,024Arkansas 19,884

Total Served in Pilot = 89

Successes & Limitations

Successes Limitations

•Priority Project•Gave direction for Future of AR CRA•Worked Program and • Identified areas to be addressed

•Number served small•After Mass Dispensing of over 160,000 (240,000 by Dec 07,07)•Lag time•Staff unfamiliar with system

Lessons Learned

The Future

Add into Current Immunization System

Add into Current Immunization System

Establish and Run Clinic

Everything Working Together

The Future - PHIN CRA

2010 Compliance

StandardizationExerciseExerciseExercise

Policies &Procedures

TrackProgress

James Hicks PHIN Coordinator

Alyce Wagner PCA Lead Partner Communication and Alerting

Amanda Fincher GIS Lead Geographical Information Systems

Jim Files EED Lead Early Event Detection

Vacant (EPI) OMS Lead Outbreak Management System

Kim Sutphin CRA Lead Countermeasure and Response Administration

Charles McGee CLS Lead Connecting Laboratory Systems

Swee Ang IDE Lead Interoperable Data Exchange

Mike Wilson EOC Lead Emergency Operation Center

Additional advisory team members

Cathy Flanagin Haytham Safi

Deborah Biddle Keith Burns

ADH PHIN Team

Thank You