Liability protection for public health partners

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• Alternative Title:
  Publication date from document properties.
• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response. Division of Strategic National Stockpile.
• Description:
  Private or public organizations can play a key role in a large-scale public health emergency by assisting public health in the distribution and/ or dispensing of medical countermeasures, such as antibiotics to any or all of the following:
  
  • Employees
  
  • Employee Families
  
  • Contract Staff
  
  • Clients
  
  • General Public
  
  These medical countermeasures would be provided to organizations by local public health agencies at no cost.
  
  Employers benefit by protecting the health and safety of their employees while helping to ensure their own continuity of operations.
  
  Employers would also be helping limit any negative impact on the economy and society. A partnership that benefits us all.
  
  Liability issues are a common concern that employers have expressed when asked to distribute or dispense medical countermeasures on behalf of public health.
  
  Liability protection is provided to organizations at the federal level when a Public Readiness Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act declaration is issued.
  
  The PREP Act authorizes the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to issue a PREP Act declaration in response to a public health emergency.
  
  A PREP Act declaration provides immunity from tort liability claims (except willful misconduct) to individuals or organizations involved in the manufacture, distribution, or dispensing of medical countermeasures. PREP Act declarations have been issued many times in the past. The most recent example was H1N1 in 2009.
  
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• Subjects:
  Anti-Infective Agents/supply & Distribution Civil Defense Communicable Disease Control/organization & Administration Disaster Planning/organization & Administration Drugs, Essential/supply & Distribution Drug Storage Emergency Medical Services/organization & Administration Liability, Legal National Health Programs Regional Medical Programs Risk Management/legislation & Jurisprudence Vaccines/supply & Distribution

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• Document Type:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  2 unnumbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:7cc47c89e6d0334d0d74c2e2518cb556e1287040882e8f8d1ba305619254d3fb
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/82927/cdc_82927_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 10.94 MB ]