The New Mexico DOH All-Hazard Emergency Operations Plan describes which aspect of DOH operations?

• A. A list of all hospital locations
• B. International aid distribution protocols
• C. A general disaster drill schedule
• D. The management and coordination of DOH resources and personnel during periods of public health emergencies, disasters or events

Answer: (D)

An All-Hazard Emergency Operations Plan focuses on how the Department of Health would manage and coordinate its resources and personnel during public health emergencies, disasters, or events. It sets up activation levels, roles, responsibilities, and the chain of command, ensuring unified operations through incident command, logistics, communications, and interagency collaboration. This framework keeps essential public health functions running and enables rapid mobilization of staff and assets to the right place, regardless of the type of hazard. The other options don’t capture this comprehensive operational framework: listing hospital locations is simply a facility inventory; international aid distribution protocols pertain to outside-of-state or international response; and a general disaster drill schedule concerns training and exercises rather than how resources and personnel are actually managed during an event.