East Texas Gulf Coast
Regional Trauma Advisory Council
Ron Schmitz, LP, Chair
Diana Grimm-Mapp, RN, BSN, Chair Elect
Kathy Rogers, RN, Secretary
Susan Hays, LP, Treasurer
HPP-PHEP Joint Meeting
July 26, 2911 Austin, Tx
Sally Connor, Branch Manager Public Health Emergency Preparedness, DSHS
PHEP is ending a new project period. It was extended from 2001-2010 through 2011 because of
H1N1 response. The new contract will be a capability based model.
A goal for the new project period is to align as many of the grants as they can. The goal is to
not duplicate planning areas or services between grants.
CDC picked 15 capabilities that are most appropriate to PHEP and HPP. Those capabilities were
divided between the two groups to focus on.
Presentation on Statewide Medical Sheltering
Plan for Texas for this hurricane season is online at Preparing Texas.org. Plan is focused on
evacuees who are transported on state supported transportation thru coastal evacuation hubs.
Medical evacuees will all go to San Antonio to consolidate resources, until those resources are
filled. Medical shelters are primarily for high acuity evacuees requiring skilled nursing care and
constant medical oversight first. Evacuate to other selected cities as necessary. Capacity in San
Antonio is about 5,000.
Medical Evacuees from South East Texas Area Evacuation will go to San Antonio-(5000), then
Tyler (200), then Tyler / Marshall (400-600) additional beds
Tyler has 200 primary medical sheltering beds. Marshall has 400-600 additional beds.
Medical Evacuees from theHouston Galveston evacuation area San Antonio (5000) beds, Austin
(250) beds, Bryan/College Station (450) beds.
New expectation this year. Jurisdictions that provide sheltering should have capacity to provide
medical services to general population.
Population Definitions
General evacuees: Ability to function independently each day.
Medical evacuees: Require skilled medical care and may or may not have disabilities, functional
or access needs.
PO Box 2878 Angleton, TX 77516-2878
201 E. Myrtle Angleton, TX 77515
Phone 979-888-8005
Fax 979-888-8006
www.rac-r.com
East Texas Gulf Coast
Regional Trauma Advisory Council
Ron Schmitz, LP, Chair
Diana Grimm-Mapp, RN, BSN, Chair Elect
Kathy Rogers, RN, Secretary
Susan Hays, LP, Treasurer
The plan is available on the TDEM website
http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/ftp/dem/plan_state/hurricane_plan_attachment5.pdf
The state is training triage personnel to assist coastal hubs in assessing individuals to make a
decision as to placement---general population shelter OR medial shelter.
There is a transportation Triage tool available on the website.
http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/comprep/default.shtm
There are no longer categories 0-5.
Texas has Mobile Medical Teams (8 currently there are 8 teams with 7 team members
The Mobile Medical team along with other resources will be requested on 213RR. The 213 RR
is an automated request process that is initiated through WebEOC.
Red Cross is a big part of the general sheltering. Red Cross will not run medical shelters.
Post-landfall shelter is part of the planning process. (Safe haven or shelter of last resort plan).
Presentation by Suzanne Burnham, DVM, DSHS
50% of pigs tested in Coryell county tested positive for Tularemia
61% of all known infectious pathogens are zoonotic
Majority of diseases that infect humans have origin in wildlife (71.8%)
Humans serve as primary reservoir for only 3% of diseases that affect humans
Raccoon round worms Balisascaris procyonis Diagnosis is usually in boys < 10 and diagnosed
on post-mortem
Feral swine have contaminated spinach and peanut crops
Veterinarians in TX Public Health—four divisions
Zoonoisis Control Branch
Texas State Meat and Poultry Inspection Program
DSHS Meat Safety Assurance Unit
Agroterrorism and Disaster Preparedness
PO Box 2878 Angleton, TX 77516-2878
201 E. Myrtle Angleton, TX 77515
Phone 979-888-8005
Fax 979-888-8006
www.rac-r.com
East Texas Gulf Coast
Regional Trauma Advisory Council
Ron Schmitz, LP, Chair
Diana Grimm-Mapp, RN, BSN, Chair Elect
Kathy Rogers, RN, Secretary
Susan Hays, LP, Treasurer
Global Incident Locator
GlobalincidentMap.com OUTBREAKS map is free
DSHS has a contract and we may use their contract to access terrorism info and other areas of
this site that are not available to the public. This is a very informative website.
Password: cprwmd Username: txdshs
The following websites may be useful
hppt://info.sos.state.tx.us/fids/200904288-1.html
Texas Veterinary Medical Association
The List of reportable diseases / conditions
http://tvma.org/
TDEM situation reports http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/dem/sitrepindex.htm
PO Box 2878 Angleton, TX 77516-2878
201 E. Myrtle Angleton, TX 77515
Phone 979-888-8005
Fax 979-888-8006
www.rac-r.com