7. Hospitals
List the hospitals in Oshkosh. How much space is there for isolation wards? How many hospital beds are there? Can they handle the number of cases that might occur? How many ventilators or breathing machines do these hospitals have? Should there be an alternative "Isolation Hospital?" (e.g. a school gymnasium? The Park Plaza Hotel? ) List what would be needed to equip an alternative site? Who will work at an alternative site?
Oshkosh Community Pandemic Flu Questions
The plan is divided into 12 sections
- Individual preparedness (stockpiling food, water, masks, medicines, miscellaneous)
- Create an emergency workforce team (who will be on this team)
- Role of the Media (educating the community)
- Community Communication (e.g. moving goods and services)
- Quarantine measures /Prevention/Travel/Curfews/Crime Prevention
- Public gathering policies
- Hospitals
- Pharmacies/Health Plans/Stockpiling Antiviral Drugs
- Long-term care, including nursing home residents and elderly living alone
- Vaccines
- City Issues (garbage collection, electricity, water treatment, burial procedures, business plans)
- Oshkosh Board of Health Role