Illinois Administrative Code › Title 77 - PUBLIC HEALTH › Part 615 - LOCAL HEALTH PROTECTION GRANT CODE › Subpart C - PROGRAM STANDARDS › Section 615.340 - Common Requirements

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
a) All
				activities performed under this Part shall be governed in all respects by the
				laws of the State of Illinois. Personnel performing the programs described in
				this Subpart C shall meet the applicable requirements of the Medical Practice
				Act of 1987, the Nurse Practice Act, and the Environmental Health Practitioner
				Licensing Act.
b) All local health
				departments shall maintain a 24-hour notification system that the Department,
				hospitals or members of the general public can contact to promptly reach a
				staff person to report a suspect or actual public health incident or event.
				Local health departments shall document, at least quarterly, that this 24-hour
				notification system is operational. In addition, local health departments shall
				document and provide to the Department's Office of Preparedness and Response
				Emergency Response Coordinator (ERC) and the Department's Regional Health
				Officer the procedure that the Department, hospitals or members of the general
				public will use to activate this 24-hour notification system.
c) All local health departments are required
				to maintain a current all hazard emergency response/disaster plan for their
				jurisdiction. "All hazard" includes, but is not limited to, natural,
				technological and intentionally caused emergency events, including disease
				outbreaks, bioterrorism, floods, severe weather, environmental incidents, food
				protection incidents and other events most likely to occur in the jurisdiction.
				All local health departments shall electronically submit the plan for their
				jurisdiction to the Department's Office of Preparedness and Response ERC upon
				request. All future amendments to the plan shall be electronically submitted to
				the Department's Office of Preparedness and Response ERC immediately. All local
				health departments shall keep a copy of the plan on file in their principal
				office. The Department will review each plan once at least every three years,
				or as often as necessary, as part of the local health department's program
				review process conducted in accordance with Section
				615.220.
				The emergency response/disaster plan shall provide a framework for response
				operations of the local health department singly or as part of a
				multi-jurisdiction agency, and shall outline specific actions for local
				response and recovery activities. The plan shall provide guidance for the local
				health department's primary programs to support jurisdiction-wide emergency
				operations and prescribe, among other items, when plan elements may be
				activated, the availability of personnel and response needs and provisions. The
				following items are minimum elements of an approved emergency response/disaster
				plan:
1) A procedure for 24-hour availability
				of the local health department to receive information on a significant or
				potential emergency situation from the general public or a federal, State or
				local governmental agency;
2) A
				procedure for internal notification ("call-tree") to alert key staff within the
				local health department of an emergency situation;
3) A procedure that details how and when the
				local health department will notify the local emergency management agency,
				local law enforcement agency and the Department of an emergency
				situation;
4) A procedure that will
				outline mutual aid requests to other local health departments, notifying and
				managing volunteers, and the rapid mobilization of non-essential staff of the
				local health department to assist with the emergency situation, including the
				identification of critical programs administered by the local health
				department;
5) A procedure for
				disseminating information to first responders, local health care providers,
				hospitals, clinics and pharmacies within the jurisdiction to alert them of a
				significant or potential emergency situation; and
6) A procedure for implementing a mass
				vaccination and prophylaxis and treatment, or distributing and managing of
				stockpiles of pharmaceuticals or other medical countermeasures in response to a
				significant or potential communicable disease situation or other public health
				emergency within the jurisdiction.