Make sure the POD keeps running!

• Communicate with All-POD Coordinator from the Health Department. This includes throughput (patient flow through the clinic), supply and staffing level, etc.
• Work with facility staff to open and close the POD
• Work with Command Staff to supervise various work areas
• Oversee staff briefings
• Oversee activation, shift changes, and de-activation
• Act as point of contact outside the POD with partner agencies

If you are the activation POD manager (first shift) you will oversee staff and interact with the contacts for the facility to open the POD. While the POD is running you will be providing information to the All-POD Coordinator, conducting briefings with your Command staff, overseeing shift changes, and acting as the point of contact for agencies outside of the Health Department. Once the All-POD Coordinator makes the decision to close the POD site, the POD manager for the last shift will be overseeing the de-activation of the POD.

In some instances the Activation and De-activation POD Manager may be the same person. This usually happens in the case of a one day clinic.