State Emergency Management Plans

The State's role in disaster response is to maintain overall situational awareness and support community response, to provide guidance to local jurisdictions, and to coordinate securing and deploying federal and other resources if available when state and local assets are insufficient to meet the need.

DSHS serves as the primary state agency for coordinating State responsibilities according to the National Response Plan assigned frameworks of Emergency Support Function 8: Public Health and Medical Services and Nuclear/Radiological Incident management.

 

Annex D: Radiological Emergency Management

Provides for coordinated State incident management and emergency response activities related to nuclear/radiological incidents.

August 2005

 

Annex H: Health and Medical Services

Provides the mechanism for coordinated State assistance to supplement local resources in response to public health and medical care needs for potential or actual public health emergencies.

September 2006

 

Appendix 7 to Annex H: Pandemic Influenza Response

Assigns roles to DSHS as primary agency and to 26 supporting agencies due to the societal complexities involved and the duration of response required in a global outbreak of a new influenza strain.

March 2007

 

Appendix 8 to Annex H: Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) Plan

Clarifies roles and responsibilities of DSHS central and regional offices and ten supporting state agencies, and recommends actions for local health departments in a public health emergency requiring federal SNS pharmaceutical assets.

July 2007

 

 

Last updated October 11, 2007