Transcript Medical Reserve Corps

DALLAS COUNTY HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES:
PUBLIC HEALTH PREPAREDNESS DIVISION
Dallas County
MEDICAL RESERVE CORPS
Medical and Non-medical Local Volunteers
What is a Public Health
Emergency?
Any event that threatens the health,
safety, or well-being of a large
segment of the population.
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Bioterrorism or other terrorist attack
Infectious disease outbreak
Natural disaster
What Does the
Medical Reserve Corps Do?
During a large-scale public health emergency,
the MRC supplements existing EMS;
extending its surge capacity with trained
volunteers:
Medical & Mental Health Professionals
Public Health & Social Workers
General Support Volunteers
How MRC Volunteers Help…
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Train for disaster response
Learn how to set-up and operate a
Point-of-Dispensing (POD)
Help deliver medical and mental
health/social work services during
emergency sheltering operations.
Why Does MRC Need
More Volunteers?
Need 7,500
active responders
to staff 30 Dallas
County PODs for
two shifts serving
2 million people.
MRC Training
● Basic
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training takes place at DCHHS
Orientation
Fundamentals of Preparedness
Specific POD role (selected from 10 modules)
FEMA’s Incident Command Training
● Additional
training is offered and
recommended.
POD Exercise; delivering medical
countermeasures to the community.