Resources concerning emergency preparedness are provided for your convenience as you begin to assess risk and develop facility policies and procedures. We sincerely thank the other ESRD Networks for many of these listings and resources.

Please click hyperlinks below to access each site.

·         United States Department of Homeland Security: see Emergencies and Disasters http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/

Home Land Security, Identify your State Contact: http://www.whitehouse.gov/homeland/contactmap.html/

·         Occupational Safety and Health Administration: page down to Safety / Health topics or search terrorism http://www.osha.gov/

·         First Gov. Gov – The United States Official Web Portal: http://www.firstgov.gov/Topics/Learn_More.shtml/

·         Disaster Help: Select Disease: https://disasterhelp.gov/portal/jhtml/index.jhtml/

·         United States Environmental Protection Agency: http://yosemite.epa.gov/oswer/ceppoweb.nsf/content/index.html/

·         Federal Emergency Management Agency: http://www.fema.gov/

See bioterrorism @ http://www.fema.gov/hazards/terrorism/

See Emergency Management For Businesses and Industry @ http://www.fema.gov/pdf/library/bizindst.pdf/

Are You Ready, a guide to citizen preparedness: http://www.fema.gov/areyouready/

·         American Red Cross; Terrorism: http://www.redcross.org/services/disaster/keepsafe/unexpected.html/

·         Centers For Disease Control And Prevention  (CDC): http://www.cdc.gov/ select Terrorism and Public Health

CDC, Public Health Practice Program Office: http://www.phppo.cdc.gov/

Public Health Preparedness and Response Capacity Inventories: http://www.phppo.cdc.gov/od/inventory/

CDC Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response: http://www.bt.cdc.gov/ discusses specific agents, preparedness, and CDC Bioterrorism funding to states

·         District of Columbia Department of Health, Bioterrorism: http://bioterrorism.dc.gov/main.shtm/

·         Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene: http://www.edcp.org/html/bioterrorinfo.html/

          Centers for Civilian Biodefense Strategies: http://www.hopkins-biodefense.org/index.html/

·         Virginia Dept of Emergency Management: http://165.176.249.147/prepare/index.cfm, See Terrorism Preparedness

Virginia Department of Health: Emergency Preparedness and Response: http://www.vdh.state.va.us/bt/index.html/

·         West Virginia Infectious Disease Epidemiology Program: Bioterrorism Resources http://www.wvdhhr.org/bph/oehp/sdc/bioterrorism.htm/

·         National Mental Health Association, Tips for Coping in Challenging Times: http://www.nmha.org/

·         United States Department of Education: Information on planning for school emergencies, with links to associated websites http://www.ed.gov/emergencyplan/

·         State of Missouri State Emergency Management Agency:  http://www.sema.state.mo.us/semapage.htm

·         Nebraska Emergency Management Agency:  http://www.nebema.org/index_html?page=content/rep/rep.html

·         Kansas Division of Emergency Management:  http://www.accesskansas.org/kdem/

·         Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management:  http://www.iowahomelandsecurity.org/

·         NW 7 Boil Water Advisory:  http://www.fmqai.com/ESRD/pdf/Boil%20Water%20Advisory.pdf

·         NW 14 Disaster Planning info. (Some in Spanish): http://www.esrdnetwork.org/patient_disaster.htm