Layout and Set-up
Considerations for your facility:
- Delivery area
- Supplies
- Staff and Family
- Parking areas
- Workplace areas
- Traffic Control
- Crowd control
As soon as your business knows that they are going to activate their Push Partner Plan, a delivery area should be secured. This is the area or location where the medications will be delivered. Medications will arrive in one of two ways: the health department liaison will deliver the medications or a representative from your company will pick up the medications at a designated site and then return with the medication to your business. Either way, a safe and secure area needs to be ready for medication delivery and unpacking. This may have been done by your company ahead of time using the Push Partner Plan template provided by the health department.
When activating a Push Partner POD your business needs to consider where staff and family members are going to park their cars. Some businesses have a secured parking area that can only be accessed with codes or a key card. Your agency may need to create a parking plan that will allow for staff and family members to safely and securely enter the facility in an orderly fashion.
Traffic control will also be a consideration when activating a Push Partner POD. Again, your business can work with the health department to create a map and a plan for moving cars through an area so that your staff and family members can safely arrive, receive their medications and depart in a timely and organized manner.
All of these plans may have been put together by your company ahead of time using the Push Partner Plan template provided by the health department.