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Pottawattamie County approves $14,000 to fund hospital preparedness coordinator tied to opioid activities
Summary
The Board of Supervisors approved $14,000 to support a preparedness coordinator role that will work with two hospitals to align data and training related to opioid preparedness and broader hospital emergency planning; the funding accompanies a larger state grant.
Pottawattamie County supervisors approved $14,000 to support a hospital preparedness coordinator role intended to align hospital data and training related to opioid preparedness and larger-scale hospital emergency planning.
The funding was described as a county contribution that supplements an ongoing state hospital preparedness grant. County staff said the state grant provides roughly $82,000 for the program and the county contribution of $14,000 will help fund coordination between the two hospitals serving the county.
County officials described the coordinators role as consolidating data that hospitals currently track on different systems, converting it into a usable format for first responders and law enforcement, and supporting hospital opioid-preparedness trainings. The county identified Akeem Bannister as the staff member working with the hospitals on the planning and data tasks.
During discussion supervisors and public-health staff said existing data do not yet show the full scope of opioid-related incidents in Pottawattamie County, and one stated objective of the coordinator is to pull together data from multiple agencies to create a clearer local picture.
The board voted to approve the request. The transcript records the motion and voice vote but does not include a roll-call tally in the public portion of the record.
