Dear Students, Staff and Faculty,

A new shipment of H1N1 vaccine will be available in the Village Walk-In Clinic as of Monday November 23 at 8AM. The vaccine will be administered on a FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVED.

The vaccine will be given only to:

1. Current KSU students
2. Current KSU staff members
3. Current KSU faculty.

All members of the KSU community wishing to be immunized must present a KSU student or KSU employee, faculty or staff I.D. card reflecting their KSU identification number in order to receive the vaccine.

Please keep the following in mind when coming to be immunized:

1. This is an injectable vaccine
2. Please dress appropriately – we must be able to access your upper arm to the shoulder. The immunization will be given in a public setting.
3. The immunization is FREE
4. The Vaccine being given is an attenuated vaccine. It is physiologically impossible to contract H1N1 from this immunization.
5.  The vaccine being given contains no preservatives, no thimerosal, and no mercury.
6. If you are unable to be immunized on Monday November 23, 2009 please watch for information on the Health Clinic web site for when and where the vaccine wil be available again.

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Department of Strategic Security & Safety

Dear Students, Staff and Faculty,

The KSU health Clinic has exhausted its supply of H1N1 vaccinations. We will be notifying the campus community when vaccination supplies are replenished.

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Department of Strategic Security & Safety

Dear Students, Staff and Faculty,

The KSU Health Clinic has received 1,400 doses of H1N1 swine flu vaccine. The vaccine will be administered on a FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVED basis on Monday November 9, 2009, from 8AM until noon and again from 1PM to 4PM, IN THE MAIN DINING AREA OF THE KSU STUDENT CENTER.

The vaccine will be given only to:

1. Current KSU students
2. Current KSU staff members
3. Current KSU faculty.

All members of the KSU community wishing to be immunized must present a KSU student or KSU employee, faculty or staff I.D. card reflecting their KSU identification number in order to receive the vaccine.

Please keep the following in mind when coming to be immunized:

1. This is an injectable vaccine
2. Please dress appropriately – we must be able to access your upper arm to the shoulder. The immunization will be given in a public setting.
3. The immunization is FREE
4. The Vaccine being given is an attenuated vaccine. It is physiologically impossible to contract H1N1 from this immunization.
5.  The vaccine being given contains no preservatives, no thimerosal, and no mercury.
6. If you are unable to be immunized on Monday November 9, 2009 please watch for information on the Health Clinic web site for when and where the vaccine wil be available again.

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Anne Nichols
Director KSU
Health Clinic
1000 Chastain Road
Kennesaw, GA 30144

Dear KSU Faculty, Staff, and Students:

I wanted to provide an update to my August 26, 2009 memo on diagnoses of the H1N1 flu here at Kennesaw State University.

As you know, in August, we reported two official diagnoses of H1N1.  Since that time, we have had no reported cases of H1N1 at KSU.  

Please continue to rest assured that all necessary precautions are being taken by the University in accordance with the recommendations issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).  We are providing ongoing updates on information regarding the prevention and treatment of all flu-like symptoms, as well as updates pertaining specifically to KSU, at our Department of Strategic Security and Safety website:

  http://www.kennesaw.edu/sss/H1N1.html

We strongly urge that you comply with the recommendations provided on the website for dealing with flu-like illnesses in workplace and classroom settings.   The CDC currently recommends that it is safe to return to work or school when your temperature has remained below 99.5 for 24 hours without taking any medication that contains medications that reduce fever.

Please take time to review this important information. We will continue to keep you updated as needed.

Sincerely,
 
Lendley C. Black, Ph.D.

Campus Colleagues,

Over the past few years, Kennesaw State has worked to ensure that its students, faculty, staff, and visitors, have a secure environment in which to learn, work and play.  KSU’s efforts to enhance security have included the creation of policies and procedures to guide actions in the case of dangers or threats, the deployment of technologies such as the Early Warning Siren System and the Early Notification Cell Phone System, and the implementation of a Crisis Management Program which in conjunction with KSU’s Department of Public Safety ensures that we have trained personnel in each building who are empowered to provide directions to shelter-in or evacuate as required in the event of a danger or threat. 

We have come a long way in a short time.  However, we are not yet where we need to be.  Thus, to enhance further the university’s safety and security, I have asked Assistant Vice President for Strategic Security and Safety Bob Lang to form and head a task force of members of departments and operating units that will be integral to any KSU response to a danger or threat. This task force will be asked to develop plans to assure KSU’s continuity of operations should such a danger or threat arise. 

Bob will begin contacting support departments and operating units immediately to identify critical processes and personnel to establish both the task force and plans.  Thank you in advance for your cooperation with and commitment to this important undertaking. 

- Dan Papp

Flu is a serious contagious disease.

It is estimated that each year in the United States, on average:

• More than 200,000 people are hospitalized from flu-related complications.
• 20,000 of those hospitalized are children younger than 5 years old.
• 36,000 people die from flu-related causes.

Take action to protect yourself and your loved ones from the flu.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) urges you to take the following steps to protect yourself and others from influenza (the flu):

Bob Lang, the Assistant Vice President of Strategic Security and Safety for Georgia's Kennesaw State University, said it's important for every pandemic plan to identify essential support functions like human resources, facilities, the health clinic, payroll and the campus police department. "Those people are going to have to come up with not only plans as to how they would support the university when people don't show up, but how they are going to actually maintain adequate levels of support internally," he said.

Identifying critical roles is easy enough, but cross-training workers to take on those responsibilities is the challenge. Lang said people mistakenly think they can just step into the role, but he said they must be aware of certification requirements and be prepared to fully do that job in addition to their own.

Officials also must realize that they become first responders in a full-blown pandemic because the university's and city's health and medical staff also will be affected. "Staffing and being able to get support is something that's going to be very tough to get," Lang said. "That's why your internal procedures are going to have to try to support as much as you can without relying on outside entities."

In response to previous security and safety concerns, to include the type of events demonstrated by the recent Virginia Tech Crisis, Dr. Randy Hinds, VP of Operations, with the support of Dr. Papp, President of KSU, brought to Kennesaw State University a new Assistant Vice President of Strategic Security and Safety (SSS), Mr. Robert F. Lang, CPP. The SSS department has launched several integrated security and crisis management initiatives for KSU. At the forefront of this initiative is the Crisis Coordinator Certification Program. Originally staffed by 35 volunteers, the CCCP Program has grown to 150+, all volunteers are trained in Emergency Preparedness, Emergency Response, Crisis Mitigation, First Aid, CPR, AED and Security Awareness. It has been shown that many of the current crises: Virginia Tech, Northern Illinois and other man made situations, are over in the first 3 minutes.Our Crisis Coordinators act as “Immediate Responders” while the KSU Police and Cobb Fire are the “First Responders”.

Our Crisis Coordinators mitigate the immediate situation while awaiting the arrival of trained first responders. In this way, immediate help is rendered along with trained support for sustained assistance. The core initiative is the Kennesaw State Planning and Response System (KSPARS) which utilizes our present communications method: Early Warning System (Sirens and Voice over Messages), Early Notification System (Email, Cell Voice and Cell SMS Texting), Main Web Page Alert, PopUp Computer Notification (PC and Mac) Call Trees and direct interface with students, faculty and staff. Our Crisis Coordinators are trained staff in emergency response and mitigation are in each campus building and will be supported by the Campus Police who will make additional announcements through their patrol cars and bull-horns. and building information..all from one login link using their MYId.(see #2 below)

• *Note: CCs who no longer represent a particular building will need to contact the department of Strategic Security & Safety in order to have their information deleted from CPO Tracker. Also, anyone replacing a CC will need to register themselves with the deparment in order to be properly add to a particular buildings team and gain permissions to CPO Tracker.

1. Please read the CC Policy before registering with the department of Strategic Security & Safety.
2. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
3. Who is my building representative? View a list of designated Crisis Coordinators by building, click here.
4. For a Checklist for New CCs, click here.

KSU ALERT is an emergency notification system that notifies faculty, staff, and students of critical information and situations affecting the KSU campus through the use of text messages, voice messages to multiple phone numbers, email, and more. The Kennesaw State University encourages all students, faculty and staff to update their emergency contact number(s) in Banner so that KSU ALERT contacts their primary phone number in the event of an emergency. Although college campuses are usually safe places, emergencies and disasters do occur. KSU is committed to keeping the campus community as safe as possible through effective communication prior to, during and following emergencies.

This section includes the following resources relating to Kennesaw State University's Pandemic Influenza Planning efforts:

Also, links to information on the Swine Flu.

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