Dallas County MEDICAL RESERVE CORPS

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Dallas County 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. 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… 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 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.