{"id":6672,"date":"2015-05-04T13:48:28","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T17:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/county-health-departments-pod-drill\/"},"modified":"2015-05-04T13:48:28","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T17:48:28","slug":"county-health-departments-pod-drill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/county-health-departments-pod-drill\/","title":{"rendered":"County Health Department&#8217;s POD drill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Rensselaer County Health Department held a five-hour Point of Distribution (POD) exercise May 1 in the McDonough Field House.<\/p>\n<p>The POD drill was intended to improve the Health Department&#8217;s ability to respond to emergencies, such as an epidemic or bio-hazard release. Nearly 100 county staff members will be on site and more than 500 participants from local community groups will volunteer as patients.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a title=\"here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbs6albany.com\/news\/features\/top-story\/stories\/mock-emergency-health-drill-held-ensure-preparedness-25113.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to see coverage of the event by CBS 6 News.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Mon, 04 May 2015 13:48:28 +0000 by\u00a0d.gardner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Rensselaer County Health Department held a five-hour Point of Distribution (POD) exercise May 1 in the McDonough Field&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6672","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=6672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}