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July 13, 2023

Future Meetings

See all GHA meetings.

Resources

GHA Coronavirus Information

COVID-19 information and resources.

Ebola

The Department of Public Health (DPH) offers answers to your Ebola questions.

State Epidemiologist

24-hour access to a State Epidemiologist: 1-866-PUB-HLTH.

CDC Information

Visit www.cdc.gov to stay up to date on current information.

Disaster Mental Health

The Georgia Disaster Mental Health website addresses the mental health components of disasters.

Georgia Crisis and Access Line (GCAL) Visit to access behavioral health services.

SAMHSA: Preventing Suicide

Visit the suicide prevention resource page.

GHA Welcomes New Emergency Preparedness Communication Manager

Selelia Williams has joined GHA as its emergency preparedness communications manager. Selelia may be reached at swilliams@gha.org or 770-249-4506.

Georgia Project Firstline 

Connect with your Infection Prevention and Control Education Expert (IPCEE) to learn about free infection prevention educational opportunities. Project Firstline developed another great educational tool to prevent the spread of infection.

CDC to Reduce Funding for States’ Child Vaccination Programs

The budget cut comes as the number of children getting vaccinated dropped amid the covid pandemic. During the 2021-22 school year, approximately 93% of kindergartners nationwide received each of the MMR, DTaP, polio, and varicella vaccines. 

Some Patients in Fungal Meningitis Outbreak Have Surprising Complications

Dozens have been infected and seven have died from the fungal meningitis outbreak associated with two surgery clinics in Mexico.

Deer Spread COVID to Humans Multiple Times, New Research Suggests

Americans have transmitted COVID-19 to wild deer hundreds of times, an analysis of thousands of samples collected from the animals suggests, and people have also caught and spread mutated variants from deer at least three times.

NEWSLETTERS

ASPR TRACIE The Express - June 2023

ASPR TRACIE The Exchange - Issue 17

Disaster Mental Health Bulletin - July 2023

U.S. Department of Homeland Security Daily Digest Bulletin - July 2023

ASPR Healthcare Readiness Bulletin - July 10

Georgia Weekly Influenza Report - Week 26

HHS Office of IEA COVID-19 Update - July 13

MESH Weekly Situational Awareness Brief - July 7

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - July 7

News & Notes - July 7

EDUCATION

Emergency Preparedness Systems Training:

Everbridge Training

GHC911 Training

July

Georgia Disaster Behavioral Health Field Response Training

July 27

November
National Healthcare Coalition Preparedness Conference

Nov. 28-30

RESOURCES AND REMINDERS

Georgia Hurricane Response Hub

The Georgia Hurricane Response Hub has trainings and resources to help public health and health care professionals with their hurricane and disaster response duties.

Reminder: Identify, Isolate and Inform!

Identify, Isolate and Inform: It is important to continue to ask travel questions. The purpose of this notice is to remind health care providers about actions to take in Georgia when evaluating patients for possible serious communicable diseases!

Travel Clinical Assistant (TCA)

The Travel Clinical Assistant provides post-travel clinical information on travel-related diseases for 231 countries. Diseases with recent outbreaks occurring in the last two years are listed first.

ONLINE PREPAREDNESS TOOLS and

TIPS & TRICKS

GHC911

Go to the GHC911 homepage.

WebEOC

Add your facility to WebEOC.

Everbridge

Sign up for an Everbridge account

Accessing Tech Support

Selelia Williams is GHA's Emergency Preparedness Communications Manager. Contact her at swilliams@gha.org, 770-249-4506 (office) or 404-200-5829 (cell).

If you need to reach GHA for a Disaster/Emergency Preparedness-related issue after hours, please contact  Mallory Garrett, 706-934-0711.

The Disaster Readiness Line Newsletter is circulated by Georgia's Healthcare Coalitions to our emergency preparedness partners.

Georgia Hospital Association

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