Preparedness provides leadership to protect the health of Kansans through efforts to mitigate, prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters, infectious disease, terrorism, and mass casualty emergencies. To accomplish this mission, Preparedness is responsible for the following:
- Health and medical planning and response in Kansas
- Serves as the coordinating unit for the Emergency Support Function (ESF) #8
- Maintains the Health Alert Network (KS-HAN)
- Serves as the grantee for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Health and Human Services (HHS) health preparedness grants.
Preparedness promotes all-hazards planning, defined as planning in the absence of a specific threat for capabilities that would be required to respond to any emergency regardless of the causative factor. Preparedness prepares a variety of exercise scenarios to contribute toward planning purposes for health preparedness.
The KALHD Preparedness Team works in collaboration with KDHE to develop annual goals and work plan objectives. The KALHD team is responsible for representing the interests of KALHD members and for sharing information with them.
PHEP Advisory Team
PHEP Archive (contains some of the more recent past years)
2023-2024 Documents
- 2023-24 KALHD PHEP Concurrence Letter
- Workplan Details
- County designation (small, medium, or large) (8/10/2023)
- Regional workplan (8/10/2023)
- Small LHD workplan (7/12/2023)
- Medium LHD workplan (7/12/2023)
- Large LHD workplan (7/12/2023)
- CRI workplan (8/10/2023)
- PHEP Regional Guidance (8/10/2023)
- LHD Workplan Guidance
- Local allocation formulas for 2023-24
- CRI (8/10/2023)
- Local Health Departments (LHD) (8/10/2023)
- PHEP Regions (8/10/2023)
- Summary of Allocations (8/10/2023)
2022-2023 Documents
- 2022-23 KALHD PHEP Concurrence Letter
- Workplan Details (remember: workplan deliverables are entered in KGMS as progress reports this year!)
- County designation (small, medium, or large) (7/14/2022)
- Regional workplan (7/14/2022)
- Small LHD workplan (7/14/2022)
- Medium LHD workplan (7/14/2022)
- Large LHD workplan (7/14/2022)
- CRI workplan (7/14/2022)
- PHEP Regional Guidance
- Local allocation formulas for 2022-2023 (posted 7/14/2022)
Resources
- Procedure for Delinquent Contract Deliverables (revised 11/19/2019)
- Public Health Emergency Preparedness Regions
- Homeland Security Region Map
- Kansas Preparedness Healthcare Coalition Steering Committee
- View a map of Regional Public Health Preparedness Groups
- Kansas Healthcare Coalitions
- Ready.gov
- Flu.gov
- CDC Emergency Preparedness & Response
- Kansas Medical Reserve Corps
- KDHE Disaster Recovery Information
- KsReady.gov
- KS Homeland Security