Health and Medical Preparedness

The Lancaster County Emergency Management Agency (LEMA) provides a full range of health and medical preparedness activities aimed towards supporting the local healthcare systems in responding to, and recovering from, all-hazards emergencies and disasters. Planning strategies embrace emergency management best practices and build upon existing healthcare resources and partnerships. Essential emergency management initiatives rely heavily on building and maintaining strong partnerships with all Lancaster County healthcare partners in advance of an incident and are not developed de novo. Our goal is to build more resilient communities that are prepared to deal with, and rapidly recover from, all-hazards threats and emergencies.

What We Do

The Lancaster County Emergency Management Agency Health and Medical Preparedness Coordinator provides liaison support and technical assistance to County and local emergency management officials, specifically focused on issues surrounding health and medical preparedness initiatives. The Health and Medical Preparedness Coordinator directly supports the County Health Advisory Committee (CHAC) and provides planning updates to the CHAC for review and recommendations.

The Health and Medical Preparedness Coordinator provides training and education regarding the alignment of emergency management core capabilities with the corresponding CDC Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) capabilities as shown in the chart below:

How We Can Help

Community Readiness Training
Organizational Health and Medical Preparedness (pandemic and bioterrorism) planning assistance
Local (public) or organizational (private) point of dispensing (POD) planning assistance
Training and exercise planning assistance or information
Continuity of operations plan (COOP) development assistance

Contact our Health and Medical Preparedness Coordinator at: (717) 664-1207

Violet De Stefano, Health and Medical Preparedness Coordinator

Health and Medical Preparedness