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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Meeting
Minutes:
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