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Commissioned Corps:Readiness and Response Program

The purpose of the Commissioned Corps (Corps) readiness and response program is to provide a timely, appropriate, and effective response to public health and medical emergencies, and to urgent public health needs.

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PERFORMING
Adequate

This rating describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.
  • Each Corps deployment is to a relevant, clearly defined, and unmet need. Officers are routinely deployed to Federal agencies, States, and local governments to assist in medical emergencies and urgent public health needs such as national disasters (e.g., Hurricane Katrina).
  • For the last several years, the Corps has steadily increased the standards for readiness and the number of officers ready to respond. The percent of Officers who meet readiness requirements has grown from 5 percent in 2000 to 71 percent in 2005.
  • As recommended in the "Federal Response to Katrina Lessons Learned" report, the Corps is now establishing response teams that are pre-identified, rostered, trained, and equipped for deployment. Performance measures have been established to reflect the Corps's transformation from individual-centric deployment to team-focused deployment.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Developing and conducting annual field-based training for all Tier 1 and Tier 2 response teams.
  • Establishing two Health and Medical Response Teams, who respond to public health emergencies; train themselves and other officers, and serve in hard-to-fill locations.
  • Improving performance on key measures that guide the continued improvement of all aspects of the Commissioned Corps readiness and response program.

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