Public Health Preparedness

PCG provides a set of solutions designed to enhance a community’s public health capacity to respond to an emergency.

Readiness Assessments and Surveys
PCG conducts capabilities assessments to define the resources and capacity of a community’s public health system, including those available through mutual-aid agreements and established volunteer programs. PCG offers surveys to give clients an initial baseline and/or follow-up assessments.

Planning Workshops, Forums, and Focus Groups
PCG develops and facilitates workshops used to create plans, concepts of operation, and strategies, including pandemic plans, surge capacity, Continuity of Operations (COOP), mass dispensing operations, and more. These forums help to solicit feedback from stakeholders on diverse homeland security topics.

Exercises
PCG can design, develop, and conduct exercises in accordance with the Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP). These may include tabletop, functional, and full-scale exercises to practice response to bioterrorism or a pandemic flu, or test surge capacity or the operation of points of dispensing (PODs) for antibiotics.

Financial and Grants Management
Each year, billions of dollars are awarded to state and local jurisdictions to support emergency and public health preparedness efforts. The guidelines, regulations, and laws that govern the expenditure of these funds are extensive and complex. PCG provides financial/grants management and compliance services to support state and local public health agencies. Services include the development of performance-based budgets that clearly link resources to results.

Volunteer Program Services
In the event of a public health crisis, volunteers can provide valuable support to health departments. Health departments need to identify potential volunteers to enhance critical services and should do so in advance to ensure these individuals are appropriately qualified, credentialed, and trained for their assigned responsibility. PCG can assist with recruitment, registration, and tracking of volunteer medical professionals, and can support public health agencies with the development and management of a comprehensive volunteer program.

Continuity of Operations
PCG supports state and local government agencies with the development, testing, and implementation of Continuity of Operations (COOP) plans to ensure that essential functions can be provided during a crisis.

Information Sharing/Risk Communications
Proper sharing of information is vital for effective prevention and response activities. PCG works closely with public health, emergency response, and other organizations to assess, develop, and implement information sharing systems and processes that enhance the flow of critical information across levels of government, jurisdictions and disciplines, and with the general public.