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agreements in St. Louis, Louisiana, New York
City, and New Jersey).
Appendix G.A Final Participant List:
Expert Meeting on Mass Casualty
Medical Care,
August 3-4, 2004, The Hotel George,
Washington, DC
Mr. Mark Ackermann
Senior Vice President and Chief Corporate
Services Officer
Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Centers
Step 9: Develop a community-based
planning guide for mass casualty care.
Experts agree that local and regional planners
need a resource to assist them in enhancing surge
capacity plans so that they include situations
involving mass-casualty events. A
Community-
Based Planning Guide for Mass Casualty Care
could be developed that includes guidelines, prin-
ciples, templates, and examples of promising or
tested practices for addressing the many and varied
aspects of this task, whether the focus is site-
specific, local, regional, or statewide. Although
some tools and resources exist that could be incor-
porated into a
Planning Guide
, others—including
guidelines for the allocation of scarce resources
during a mass-casualty event—have yet to be fully
developed or evaluated. It is important that the
Planning Guide
not be prescriptive, but rather offer
suggestions and identify tools and resources that
may be useful in guiding triage and the allocation
of scarce resources.
Michael Allswede, D.O.
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Section Chief, Special Emergency Medical
Response, Emergency Medical Services
Department of Emergency Medicine
University of Pittsburgh
Sherlita Amler, M.D., M.S., FAAP
Terrorism Medical Officer
Division of Injury and Disability Outcomes and
Programs
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Knox Andress, R.N.
Weapons of Mass Destruction Response
Coordinator and 2004 Chair
Emergency Preparedness Committee
Emergency Nurses Association
CHRISTUS Schumpert Health System
Step 10: Identify and support states,
health systems, and regions to develop
mass casualty and health and medical
care response plans based on the
Planning Guide and to share their results
widely.
A number of practice-oriented “centers of excel-
lence” could be supported in their efforts to build
on surge capacity planning to prepare for a health
and medical response to mass-casualty events. The
goal would be to move beyond specific elements
of a plan limited to facilities, such as hospitals, to
create a health and medical care response plan that
is coordinated among its participants and with the
overall emergency response system for the system
or region. A central expectation of this approach
is that the supported centers would develop and
implement plans based on the
Planning Guide
and
serve as demonstrations whose results would be
widely shared with peers around the country.
Joshua Bobrowsky, M.P.H.
Director, Preparedness Policy
Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
Lieutenant Commander Sumner L. Bossler, Jr.
U.S. Public Health Service
Senior Public Health Analyst
Division of Health Care Emergency Preparedness
Special Programs Bureau
Health Resources and Services Administration
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Ms. Shayne Brannman
Special Assistant
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public
Health Emergency Preparedness
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
