The Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS), Division of Public Health Services, Bureau of Public Health Emergency Preparedness worked with local jurisdictions to develop a statewide, comprehensive Strategic National Stockpile Receipt Staging and Storage program for the State of Arizona. ADHS receives federal assets from the Division of Strategic National Stockpile at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and then the local jurisdictions' Local Distribution Node sites receive the assets from ADHS. These Nodes distribute vaccines, prophylaxis or other medical countermeasures to local populations through Point of Dispensing (POD) sites. One of the key metrics associated with POD is the "throughput" or the number of people that can receive medical countermeasures within a given time period. These countermeasures may include, but are not limited to, antibiotics, antivirals, vaccines, or medical equipment from the National Stockpile.

The purpose of this study is to develop a computer-based, interactive multiple POD area throughput model and conduct an exercise. The model shall be able to handle several different combinations of POD types, numbers of PODs, user-specified distribution methods, at different user-specified geographical locations. The number of PODs, POD distribution methods and geographical locations may be different for different simulations, e.g., Maricopa County's plan will differ from Pinal County's plan.