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Pandemic Flu
VA Pandemic Influenza Plan
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New Federal Guidelines: Community Mitigation Strategies for Pandemic Influenza
VA staff should check Pandemicflu.gov (http://www.pandemicflu.gov*)
where guidelines on Pandemic Mitigation are posted, and consider how VA
facilities might use them in pandemic flu planning
and response.
The new guidelines will be incorporated into an
update of the VA Pandemic Influenza Plan to be
released later this year.
PandemicFlu.gov - Pandemic Mitigation
http://pandemicflu.gov/plan/community/mitigation.html*
The VA Pandemic Influenza Plan describes how the
Department of Veterans Affairs will protect
employees and the veterans we serve, maintain
continuity of operations, communicate with
stakeholders, and support and coordinate with
Federal, national, state, local, and tribal efforts.
This document is being added to existing VA
emergency plans to assist all parts of the
Department with preparation, response, and recovery
stages of an influenza pandemic. It is organized
consistent with comprehensive emergency management
practices and provides:
- Overview with planning assumptions, background on
the Department, scope of the threat of pandemic
influenza (Section 1—Introduction)
- Mitigation and preparedness strategies and actions
(Section 2—Preparing for Pandemic Influenza)
- Response strategies and actions (Section
3—Responding to Pandemic Influenza)
- Recovery actions (Section 4—Recovering from
Pandemic Influenza)
- References and planning and educational documents
(Section 5 and five groups of appendices)
Additional tools and educational materials will be
developed as this plan is implemented. The VA
Pandemic Influenza Plan was originally dated March
2006. The VA Plan will be updated in 2007. Like all
other pandemic influenza plans, it is a work in
progress and will change based on new scientific and
clinical information, results of exercises and
drills, Federal policies, and experience during a
pandemic.
VA Pandemic Influenza Plan Documents
VAPandemicFluPlan_2006-03-31.pdf
(2,219k PDF
file - link opens in new window)
VA Pandemic Influenza Plan - Executive Summary
VAPandemicInfluenzaPlan_ExecSum2006-03.pdf (60k
PDF file - link opens in new window)
For questions regarding the VA Pandemic Influenza
Plan, please contact Donna
Wells-Taylor at
donna.wells-taylor@va.gov.
The VA Pandemic Influenza Plan will be updated in 2007.
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