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Leadership

Committee Chairs and Co-Chairs

Oversight Committee

	Jim Chandler (Chair)
	Jeff Meyer  (Vice Chair)
	Oversight Committee Members

Strike Team Committee

	Michael Brooks (Co-Chair)
	Thomas Schwalenberg (Co-Chair)

Healthcare Committee

	Erin Sutton (Co-Chair)
	Randy Vick (Co-Chair)

Committees & Duties

Provide oversight, expert advice and guidance on all matters relating to planning and operations including, but not limited, to the following:

	Develop, provide and monitor training programs.
	Conduct training exercises.
	Identify, acquire, distribute and maintain equipment, pharmaceuticals and supplies.
	Review and revise Plan, as needed.
	Identify, acquire, distribute and maintain communication equipment and systems.
	Develop annual budget.
	Represent HRMMRS at appropriate local, state and national meetings.
	Coordinate local, regional, state and federal MMRS activities.
	Report ongoing status to appropriate jurisdictions, agencies and organizations.
	Develop surveillance and rapid laboratory identification for biological attack.
	Establish surge capacity for large numbers of ambulatory/non-ambulatory patients.
	Develop volunteer capability/response to large-scale events.
	Maintain integration of MMRS and Hazardous Materials teams

Strike Team Operations and Training Committee

	Identify and recommend personnel for Task Force Leader & Deputy Task Force Leader
	Develop call system and team activation procedures.
	Review and finalize Unified Command/Organizational Matrix.
	Determine distribution and storage of WMD kits, PPE, telecommunications and command/control equipment.
	Review and develop inter-jurisdictional and inter-agency mutual aide agreements, if needed.
	Integrate Hazardous Materials Teams and Hampton Roads Mass Casualty Incident management procedures.
	Define responsibilities for mass decontamination.
	Enhance current communications plan.
	Review and revise, if needed, traffic control procedures at the scene, at healthcare facilities, and in the community as a whole.
	Review and revise, if needed, evidence development, collection, and protection procedures.
	Establish evacuation decisions and procedures (coordinate with Public Health Committee).
	Establish MMRS personnel credentialing and identification system.
	Develop specimen/sample collection procedures.

	Determine training requirements/levels and identify training needs.
	Identify and recommend training resources.
	Monitor and recommend training activities.
	Plan, schedule and coordinate exercises.
	Develop a full-scale field exercise to validate the MMRS response system.  Submit After Action Report (AAR).

Healthcare Committee

	Determine current status of medical surveillance/data management capabilities; develop surveillance goals; identify/evaluate surveillance systems; incorporate Early Warning indicators into a developed surveillance system designed in coordination with CDC and State of Virginia.
	Finalize laboratory capacity/network.
	Identify locations for Neighborhood Emergency Health Centers.
	Integrate mass fatalities procedures into other Plan components.
	Finalize and purchase pharmaceutical cache/WMD kits (federal & Sustainment funds).
	Develop WMD kit inventory management system/procedures.
	Facilitate pharmaceutical inventory enhancement/rotation through local pharmacies.
	Review and revise, if needed, operational details to integrate with the State’s plan to request, receive, transport, breakdown, repackage, store and distribute the National Pharmaceutical Stockpile to the region.
	Review environmental health response.
	Establish disease-containment decisions and procedures (coordinate with Strike Team Operations Committee).
	Establish post-event follow-up procedures to evaluate the health of responders and caregivers.
	Ensure that all elements of Plan encompass the requirements listed in Biological Response Planning Considerations (Appendix A, Proposed Modification Number 4, Contract Number 282-99-0017).
	Establish roles and responsibilities for Advance Team/Strike Team in a non-incident based biological incident (coordinate with Strike Team Operations Committee).
	Establish plans for hospital and healthcare system surge capacity.

	Develop alternative care centers.
	Establish plans for utilizing auxiliary and volunteer personnel
	Establish plans for treating mass isolation patients.
	Ensure adequate supplies of appropriate personal protective equipment are readily available for provider use in hospitals.
	Implement patient decontamination capabilities.
	Review plant protection & utilities issues.
	Develop transportation capabilities among hospitals & alternative care facilities.
	Review interface with NDMS to accommodate forward movement of patients to out-of-area hospitals.
	Review and revise, if needed, procedures for staff call back.
	Review and revise, if needed, plans for replenishment of medical and ancillary supplies and services (e.g. food, laundry, housekeeping, etc.)
	Review and revise, if needed, plans for providing triage and the initiation of definitive care all healthcare facilities; review and improve mass casualty and mass fatalities capabilities.
	Establish plans for implementing a home/self care capacity.
	Ensure enhanced disaster hospital response plans in compliance with JCAHO requirements.