Montgomery County, TN – The Montgomery County Health Department, in conjunction with the Tennessee Department of Health, will conduct a full-scale Point of Dispensing (POD) Exercise on Tuesday, September 27th at Apostolic Faith Tabernacle Church, 1470 Golf Club Lane.
At this exercise, health officials will use Montgomery County employees and dependents that wish to receive this year’s flu vaccine for the exercise.
Health Department Director Joey Smith states, “During this exercise, we not only get a chance to run through the full scale process of a POD as practice, but our employees get vaccinated against the flu. Obviously, we hope the need never arises that we would be expected to inoculate a large segment of our community in a short amount of time, but we train for it just in case.”
Montgomery County employees that are participating in the exercise will fill out the required paperwork prior to arriving at the POD location. Once at the location, they will be directed through the process without ever leaving their vehicle!
The employee and their forms will be checked, they will see a nurse for consult and vaccine, and then be directed on to the waiting area for the mandatory waiting period. Following the waiting period, they can be on their way, having never had to leave their vehicle!
Smith adds, “This is our second year for this exercise and it worked great last year. It’s a very quick way to obtain a flu shot and we hope they will take advantage of it. It’s a great day when we can train and add a layer of convenience to those we serve!”
A Point of Dispensing (POD) site is a federally instituted best practice model designed to provide medications, vaccines, or medical supplies to a large community of healthy people during a health emergency.
