Norfolk,
VA 1/28/2002MMRS Program Manager Named
Norfolk,
VA 1/28/2002
William K. "Bill" Ginnow has been named the first Hampton Roads Metropolitan Medical Response System (MMRS) Program Manager. The MMRS is a coordinated, system wide response to the health and medical consequences of a terrorist incident involving weapons of mass destruction.
Since 1994, Ginnow has served as Associate Dean for Health Affairs with the Eastern Virginia Medical School. Prior to that, he was director and vice president for Group Health Plan, Inc, a health services corporation based in Missouri and before that an associate hospital administrator. He has a Master of Science in Hospital Pharmacy Administration and a BS in Pharmacy. He served in the US Navy as corpsman and pharmacy technician. Ginnow resides in Virginia Beach with his wife and daughter. He began employment as MMRS Program Manager on January 28, 2002 and is headquartered in the Tidewater EMS Council in Norfolk.
Ginnow has a proven background of program development, extensive medical community ties and pharmacy knowledge. Those attributes will combine well with regional efforts to implement an MMRS plan that has been in development by the Hampton Roads Planning District Commission for two years. Brochures and a videotape explaining MMRS are located in each public library in the region.
In close cooperation with the Peninsulas EMS Council, the Tidewater EMS Council is under contract with the Hampton Roads Planning District Commission to employ the MMRS Program Manager, to provide administrative support, to support an MMRS Oversight Committee and to facilitate implementation of the MMRS plan via the program manager, oversight committee and all related agencies, hospitals and jurisdictions throughout the Hampton Roads region.
Collectively, the implementation and continuation of this regional program is known as MMRS sustainment. Funding for MMRS sustainment, which also includes replacement of medications, equipment and supplies initially obtained from a Public Health Service contract for MMRS establishment, is being provided by the 16 jurisdictions comprising the Hampton Roads Planning District.
An MMRS website has been established. Visit http://tidewater.vaems.org/hrmmrs for updates. Download this press release in Adobe pdf format. Email Bill Ginnow.