• Description of the Disaster Medical Services Division
• Current DMS Activities
• Regional Disaster Medical Health Coordinator (RDMHC)

Current Hot Topics:

• Invitation to apply for Membership on Hospital Incident Command System (HICS) Advisory Committee
   - Application deadline extended through July 14, 2017
• HICS: Hospital Incident Command System, 2014 HICS Revision
• EMTs and Paramedics Practicing while on Mutual Aid Deployment [DOC]
• CBRNE: Emergency Preparedness for Medical Care Providers Program
• Mass Prophylaxis Planning Guide [PDF] [DOC]
• Disaster Medical Systems Guidelines [PDF] [DOC]
• Shelter Medical Group Toolkit [PDF] [DOC]

Hospitals and Hospital Emergency Management Topics:

• HICS: Hospital Incident Command System, 2014
• HICS: Hospital Incident Command System, 2006
• NIMS Alert for Hospitals from FEMA and HRSA [DOC]
• Recommendations for Hospitals: Decontamination Processes and Facilities
• California Hospital Bioterrorism Response Planning Guide - July 2002 [PDF]
• Hospital & EMS Final Security Levels [DOC]

Resource Materials - Disaster Medical Plans, Protocols and Reports:

• Public Health and Medical Emergency Operations Manual (EOM) [PDF]
• California EMS Authority
• Sample Agency/County Plans & Projects
• Mass Fatality Management Guide 2013 [PDF]
• NHTSA - EMS Pandemic Flu Guidelines
• NHTSA - Preparing for Pandemic Influenza: Recommendations for Protocol Development for 9-1-1 Personnel and Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs)
• CDC Smallpox Information
• DHS - Latest Information on Smallpox   
• Blueprint for EMS Response to Terrorism [DOC] (English-Ukrainian), Anna Loboda MD, Daniel Smiley, Svetlana Sinelnik MD, Georgiy Roschcin MD; NATO Internship in Science Policy, 2004
• "Transformation from Planning to Operations: Emergency Medical Services in Disaster Response,” [PDF] Daniel Smiley, Anna Loboda MD, Cheryl Starling, Jeff Rubin, Annals of Disaster Medicine, Vol 1, No 3, 2004