For deliverables #10, you will need to provide the latitude and longitude of your helicopter landing site.  You can get yours at: www.topozone.com

   Enter a "place name" (Name of town/city) and specify State. Click search.

   The matrix at the top lists various details about that "place name."  Click on the "place name" (blue) and it brings up a map.

   Use the arrows on the side of the map to locate the "target" (hospital, parking lot, etc.)  Click on the "target" - this updates the map.

   Look to the left, find the "coordinate format" and select D/M/S (Degrees/Minutes/Seconds).  Then, look above the map and write those numbers down- that is the latitude and longitude of that spot on the globe, expressed in degrees/minutes/seconds.

    Thanks to Pete Brewster, Exercise/Training Specialist

   For deliverable #5, you are to provide a diagram of where the hospital will set up a mass prophylaxis clinic your staff and family members. AHA issued a disaster readiness advisory announcing a free computer model that hospitals can use to plan prophylaxis clinics for dispensing critical drugs or vaccinations in the event of disease outbreaks or bioterrorism. AHA urged hospital emergency planning staffs to download the model from the AHA Web site and use it to assess what it would take to operate such a clinic in their community. It also reminded hospitals to work with their state and/or local public health agencies and hospital associations to plan responses to such events, including practice drills. "Now that the government's voluntary smallpox vaccination campaign has ended, many AHA advisors have urged that more emphasis be placed on hospital planning for post-event responses," the advisory notes. "This model is an important step in that direction." To download the model, developed by researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College with funding from HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, go to www.aha.org/re/disasterreadiness.

The four new issue briefs are available on the AHRQ Web http://www.ahrq.gov/news/ulp/btbriefs/  site or by sending an e-mail to ahrqpubs@ahrq.gov

    Information on injuries and stress related to mass trauma can be found on the CDC Mass Trauma website at www.cdc.gov/masstrauma. This site is designed to provide information and preparedness and response tools to help public health professionals and clinicians prepare for and respond to mass trauma events. The website also contains fact sheets in English and Spanish for the public. Additional information resources and descriptions of relevant research studies can also be found on the site.

Fact Sheets for Public Health Professionals and Clinicians

Preparedness Tools for Public Health Professionals and Clinicians

Response Tools for Public Health Professionals and Clinicians

Resources for Public Health Professionals and Clinicians

Fact sheets in English and Spanish for the Public

Government Agencies
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA): www.fema.org
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH): www.nimh.nih.gov
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA): www.samhsa.gov

U.S. Department of Homeland Security Website: www.dhs.gov
Non-profit Organizations
American Counseling Association: www.counseling.org
American Psychiatric Association: www.psych.org
American Red Cross: www.redcross.org
Disaster Mental Health Institute, University of South Dakota: www.usd.edu/dmhi
National Center for Child Traumatic Stress: www.nctsnet.org
National Mental Health Association (NMHA): www.nhma.org