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Help Ready America for Emergencies

February 17, 2011

Sick of searching for quality tools and resources on community partnerships with pharmacies? Montgomery County APC has the cure. Attend “A Prescription for Preparedness: An Online Community for Local Health Departments and Pharmacists to Help Ready America for Emergencies” session.

When: Thursday, Feb. 24 at 3:30 PM
Where: International 10 Room
Who: Montgomery County APC and Palm Beach County Health Department
What: “A Prescription for Preparedness: An Online Community for Local Health Departments and Pharmacists to Help Ready America for Emergencies”

On Thursday, Feb. 24, the Montgomery County Advanced Practice Center and Palm Beach County Health Department will present a sharing session titled “A Prescription for Preparedness: An Online Community for Local Health Departments and Pharmacists to Help Ready America for Emergencies.”

Please visit International 10 Room at 3:30 PM to see a demonstration of the virtual toolkit that has been created to help local health departments reach out to pharmacists and pharmacies to better prepare for emergencies. More important, share your thoughts and ideas about the virtual toolkit. The toolkit is dynamic—case studies, resources and tools are continually updated—so it can best serve to help ready America for emergencies. Add your name to the list of survey participants to keep in contact and help us continue to improve this virtual toolkit. Visit www.rx4prep.org.

If you are not able to attend the roundtable session but would like to comment on the virtual toolkit, please contact  MontgomeryAPC@montgomerycountymd.gov.

Jeanine Gould-Kostka serves as a project coordinator with the Montgomery County, Maryland, Advanced Practice Center for Public Health Preparedness and Response. She worked in research for nine years at the Food and Drug Administration and the National Cancer Institute. Ms. Gould-Kostka has been employed by the Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services since 2004.


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