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Medication Center Signage

Welcome to the Washington State Department of Health's Medication Center Signage site. Visit the site map for a complete set of topics. Here are a few tips to help navigate these pages:

The resources on these pages are intended for public health administrators and other emergency preparedness professionals. For general public information about public health preparedness, please visit our General Information pages.

In the event of an exercise or real emergency, public health may work with a variety of emergency preparedness partners to activate mass medication dispensing sites. Through user testing, we learned the term "Point of Dispensing" (POD) was not always clear to all partners or to the general public. We recommend the term "Medication Center" instead of POD and will use that term throughout this site.

The signage samples on this site were designed to meet the needs of health jurisdictions in Washington state. The size and layout of your medication centers — and the communication needs of your community — will help determine the number of signs and specific messages you'll need. Please feel free to use our samples as a "basic toolkit" and edit them to meet your jurisdiction's needs.

We have developed a wide variety of general public fact sheets on emergency preparedness issues. They are available in English as well Chinese-Mandarin, Korean, Russian, Spanish and Vietnamese. For a complete list of translated fact sheets, please visit our Emergency Preparedness Web Library. This library is updated on an ongoing basis as new fact sheets are translated.

If you have questions about the signage site or would like further information, please contact signs@doh.wa.gov.

Overview
An overview of the fonts, colors, and translations used to develop the basic toolkit, as well as tips and information on signage costs.

• Basic toolkit components

• Toolkit Tips

• Costs

Quick start 
To set up a medication center in limited time, start here for a list of priority signs.

How to begin 
How to prioritize and set up the signage for a medication center, including:

• Signage coordinator

• Before an event

• Need more kits?

Medication center layout (PDF Format - 95KB)
A diagram to help place the basic toolkit signage inside and outside a medication center.

Basic toolkit

• Complete list of signs (print version) (PDF Format - 67KB)

• Download all camera-ready sign files (ZIP Format - 845KB)
  NOTE: This is a zipped file. To open, first save to your computer, unzip and extract to a folder. Contact your technical support staff if you need help with zipped files or contact us at signs@doh.wa.gov.

• Hardware options

Sample photos
Photos demonstrating correct sign placement in a medication center.

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