Morris County Office of Health
Management
Community Containment for Disease
Toolbox
NW New Jersey Region
Morris County Office of Health
Management
Overview
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What’s in the plan
Sample forms
Highlights regional planning
Morris County Office of Health
Management
A Collaboration
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Morris, Sussex, Passaic and Warren
Counties
Representatives from public health,
health care, emergency
management, law enforcement,
volunteer organizations, human
services and the Morris County
Prosecutor’s Office
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Management
What’s in the Plan:
Mitigation Measures Settings
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Individual Isolation and Quarantine
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Home setting
Offers guidance on coordination and
management of individuals under home
isolation or quarantine
Social Distancing and Restriction of
Movement
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School and child care
Health care
Workplace
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Management
Purpose
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Using a regional approach:
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Develop a standard template that
agencies can adapt
Provide coordination of resources to
implement mitigation measures
Disseminate uniform messages and
recommendations/guidelines
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Management
Assumptions
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Communities will be impacted
simultaneously
Residents will be confined for a
significant period of time (up to 1
week)
Short supply of antiviral
medications or delayed vaccines
Isolation and quarantine orders will
be obtained in a timely manner
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Management
Definitions and Authority
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N.J.S.A. 26: 13-1 et seq
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Emergency Health Powers Act
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N.J.A.C. 8:57 – Communicable
Disease
Morris County Office of Health
Management
Isolation and Quarantine Template
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N.J.A.C. Title 8:57 Communicable
Diseases, Subchapter 5 (TB)
Provides template for larger scale
outbreaks and naturally occuring
diseases:
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Pandemic Influenza
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
(SARS)
MERS CoV
Biological Agents
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Management
Standards and Guidelines
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When to use
Isolation guidelines
Quarantine guidelines
Evaluation and treatment guidelines
Sample orders
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Management
Sample Health
Officer Order –
Morris County Office of Health
Evaluation and
Management
Treatment
Sample Request for
Voluntary Quarantine
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Management
Sample Isolation
Order
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Management
Community Containment Guidelines
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Key Considerations
Measures that affect groups of
exposed or at risk persons
Tables:
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Focused measures to increase social
distance
Community wide measures to increase
social distance
Widespread community quarantine
Working quarantine
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Management
Sample Table: Focused
Measures to increase
Morrissocial
County distance
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Management
Community Containment
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Community wide infection control
measures
Emergency closings and self
shielding
Preparedness checklists
Temporary emergency facilities for
patient isolation and quarantine
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Management
Management Guidelines for Home
Isolation and Quarantine
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Management
Monitoring Health Status
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Staffing recommendations
Supplies
Passive Patient Monitoring
Active Patient Monitoring
Active Patient Monitoring with
activity restrictions
Monitoring procedures
Monitoring cycles
Data records content
Monitoring
reports
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Management
Coordination
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Public Information
Law Enforcement Support
Statutes related to state public
health emergency declared
State public health emergency not
declared
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Management
Disease Scenario
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Tuberculosis
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Next Steps:
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Exercise the disease scenario with
partners and the courts
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Management