{"id":6440,"date":"2015-03-12T09:46:47","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T13:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/disaster-drill-volunteers-needed\/"},"modified":"2015-03-12T09:46:47","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T13:46:47","slug":"disaster-drill-volunteers-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/disaster-drill-volunteers-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"Disaster drill  volunteers needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The New York State Department of Health has instructed Rensselaer\u00a0 County to conduct a Medical Countermeasures Point of Dispensing Exercise (MCM POD).<\/p>\n<p>As one of the Primary Dispensing sites, Hudson Valley Community College, specifically the McDonough Sports Complex, is the site for the exercise on Friday, May 1 from 9:30 to 11:30 a,m. It will take approximately one half hour of your time if you can participate during these hours.<\/p>\n<p>The objective of an MCM POD exercise is to drill the local health department staff on the protocols involved in dispensing medical regimens (medications) that would be used to treat a public health emergency such as an influenza or disease outbreak or a bio-terror attack. They are looking for a good number of civic minded volunteers to attend the exercise\/drill as participants\/role players walking through the event receiving the &#8220;mock medical regimens.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Those interested in playing a role can sign up to participate by contacting the Rensselaer County Department of Health at (518) 270-2720 or e-mail <a title=\"lclaus@rensco.com\" href=\"mailto:lclaus@rensco.com\" target=\"_blank\">lclaus@rensco.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Thu, 12 Mar 2015 09:46:47 +0000 by\u00a0p.hyland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The New York State Department of Health has instructed Rensselaer\u00a0 County to conduct a Medical Countermeasures Point of Dispensing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-announcement-college-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}