1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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.

7. Why Does MRC Need More Volunteers?
Need 7,500 active responders to staff 30 Dallas County PODs for two shifts serving 2 million people.

8. 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.

9. POD Exercise; delivering medical countermeasures to the community.