DEPARTMENT: Health
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Colleen M. Bridger, MPH, PhD
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: Citywide
SUBJECT:
Authorizing an Agreement with STRAC for EverBridge Software License
SUMMARY:
This ordinance authorizes an agreement with Southwest Texas Regional Advisory Council (STRAC) to provide funding in an amount not to exceed $7,500.00 in support of a multiagency-San Antonio Metropolitan Health District (Metro Health), STRAC, Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS), and all regional hospitals-funded license for EverBridge Software Notification System and other public health/medical emergency preparedness activities. The funding for this agreement is available and budgeted within Metro Health's Public Health Emergency Preparedness FY 2018-2019 grant.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
The Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) grant has been awarded to Metro Health since 2001. The PHEP grant is an all hazards grant to better prepare the City, County, all regional hospitals, and the general public for emergency situations. In FY 2015 in response to decreasing PHEP and Hospital Planning and Preparedness funds, Metro Health in conjunction with STRAC, DSHS Region 8 and all forty-nine regional hospitals located in the DSHS Trauma Service Area P initiated a multi-agency cost sharing plan to enhance efficiencies that would maintain medical response systems.
Metro Health's PHEP program must notify public health/medical staff in an emergency event in order to comply with grant deliverables and achieve optimal response capabilities to all hazard emergency incidents throughout Bexar County and South Central Texas. The EverBridge Software Notification System license will provide for the maintenance of services listed below related to emergency preparedness.
The services provided by STRAC through this agreement include the following:
* EverBridge Notification System to rapidly notify Metro Health employees of potential emergencies.
* Regional Medical...
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