The Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) is used in the event of a public health emergency where local medical supplies or medicines would be depleted. The Emergency Preparedness team works with each local public health department in the district to train and exercise their county’s SNS plan.

During a public health emergency within the district requiring SNS deployment, medical supplies or medications would be delivered within a timeframe to be distributed, free of charge to the public at an open point-of-dispensing (POD).