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KCER: KIDNEY COMMUNITY EMERGENCY RESPONSE COALITION

Pandemic Preparedness

Team Leadership: Wendy Schrag and Lawrence Park

Goals: This group will develop and disseminate plans to help the Kidney Community maintain its ability to care for patients in the event of pandemic flu. The team will work with Federal, state and local agencies to assure that the KCER plan fits into the over-all Pandemic Preparedness plans.

Accomplishments: This committee is represented by ESRD patients, transplant recipients, kidney patient and dialysis provider organizations, governmental state and local representatives, the Centers for Disease Control, and physicians.

Pandemic Preparedness Response Team members are available to speak at meetings. If you are interested in securing a speaker, please contact Lawrence Park or Wendy Schrag.

Volunteer for this team! If you are interested in becoming a member of this Response Team, please read and sign the Pandemic Team's Charter and either provide it to the Response Team leadership or acknowledge that you understand the Team's activities and your responsibilities as a volunteer. Next, join the Pandemic Preparedness Team Listserv to get notified of upcoming teleconferences and meetings and other activities.

Interim Additional Guidance for Infection Control for Care of Patients with Confirmed, Probable, or Suspected Novel Influenza A (H1N1) Virus Infection in Outpatient Hemodialysis Settings *NEW*

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