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Emergency preparedness is as fast-changing a field as medicine itself. Use these valuable resources to keep your plans and people ready for anything.

General Emergency Preparedness SitesNACHC Emergency Management

See attached pdf "NACHC EP Guide for CHCs" - document is actually named "Emergencies Happen: An In-Depth Guide to Emergency Management for Health Centers"

Wisconsin Emergency Management

WI Trac

HAN (Health Alert Network)

HICS Guidebook

Personal Preparednesswww.ready.gov

http://www.redcross.org/services/prepare/0,1082,0ˍ239ˍ,00.html

Training ResourcesFEMA Courses for NIMS Compliance

ICS-100.HC

ICS-200.HC

IS-700

IS-800.B

Pandemic FluWisconsin's Pandemic Flu Resource
Promising Practices: Pandemic Preparedness Tools

BadgerCare PlusBadgerCare Plus Peer Group conference call September 30, 2009
BadgerCare Plus Peer Group conference call recording October 8, 2009

The first Health Centers opened 40 years ago. Two Tufts University doctors got a federal grant to open Centers in Boston and Mississippi.
source: Shaping the Future From Our Past: Four Amazing Centuries of Innovation, Boston History & Innovation Collaborative, (2006)

The National Health Service Corps sends doctors, dentists, nurse practitioners and other care providers to communities without these providers. About half of the 4,000 NHSC clinicians work at Health Centers.
source: National Association of Community Health Centers, (2007)

In the 1960s, the federal health center program was begun to provide primary care to people who were poor and to complement to the new Medicaid program.
source: The Commonwealth Fund

The American Heart Association says add one hour of regular, vigorous physical activity to your day and you may gain up to two hours of life expectancy for that hour.
Start it up with a click here.

The 2007 estimated cost of diabetes in the U.S. was $174 billion. That’s $1 out of every $5 spent on health care.

(Source: The Economic Imperative to Conquer Diabetes. Diabetes Care 2008; 31(3):624-625.)

Tobacco users in Wisconsin can call 1-800-QUIT-NOW for personalized coaching and two weeks’ of free medication to help quit.

Since 2001, as part of President Bush’s Health Center Expansion Initiative, Congress has increased funding for Health Centers. Today, 5 million more Americans in 900 communities have access to effective, affordable primary care.
source: Health Services and Resources Administration

Wisconsin health dropped to 17th in the U.S. for 2008. Why? High geographic disparity (12.7%), binge drinking (23.8% of people), obesity (25.3% of people), and low public health funding ($34 per person).
(Source: UnitedHealth Foundation)

Community Health Centers are the family doctor and health care home for 16 million people in more than 5,000 communities in America.
source: National Association of Community Health Centers, (2007)

Depression is three times more common for those who have had a heart attack than for others. Heart patients should be screened and treated for depression.

(Source: American Heart Association)

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