Transcript Medical Reserve Corps - Licking County Health Department

Medical Reserve Corps
OF LICKING COUNTY
Joe Ebel
LICKING COUNTY HEALTH COMMISSIONER
Opportunities to get involved your
community’s health…
• HIV/AIDS and other STD’s awareness
• Tobacco prevention program
• Health Fairs
• Blood Pressure Screenings
• Cancer programs
• Physical fitness activities
• Pink Strides – October 2014
• Emergency Preparedness
• Healthcare Disaster Planning Coalition
• Child’s Car Seat Safety Checks
• Health Education
• Immunization Clinics
• When activated outside of the Health Department
Medical Reserve Corps:
(MRC) A specialized component of the Citizen Corps, a national network of volunteers dedicated
to making sure their families, homes and communities are safe from terrorism, crime and
disasters of all kind.
The Citizen Corps, AmeriCorps, Senior Corps, and Peace Corps are all part of the President’s
Freedom Corps, which promotes volunteerism and service throughout the U.S. and abroad.
“The Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) is a national network of volunteers, organized locally to
improve the health and safety of their communities. The MRC network comprises 993
community-based units and 207,783 volunteers located throughout the United States and its
territories.”
The MRC is sponsored by the Office of the U.S Surgeon General.
How the MRC came to be.
Program formed in response to President
Bush’s call to all Americans to offer volunteer
service in their communities.
“We want to be a nation that serves goals
larger than self…,” said President George W.
Bush, State of the Union, Jan. 29, 2002.
Launched as a national, community-based
movement in July 2002.
“I have a mandate from our President to focus
on medical preparedness, including homeland
security, the war on terrorism, and improving
public health. The Medical Reserve Corps is
critical to our many national preparedness
efforts,” said Vice Admiral Richard H. Carmona,
Surgeon General, U. S. Public Health Service, in
response.
A MRC History Lesson
•Sept. 11, 2001
•Oct. – Nov. 2001
• Anthrax attacks
• Killing five people and infecting 17 others
•Jan. 2002
• Bush’s State of the Union Address
• President calls for all Americans to offer
volunteer service in their communities
•Jan. 30, 2002
• Freedom Corps and Citizen Corps was created
•July 2002
• MRC launched as part of the Citizen Corps
•Oct. 2002
• MRC Demonstration Project
• 42 grants awarded
•Oct. 2003
• MRC Demonstration Project
• 42 year-one grants continued
• 124 new grants awarded
Who are the members of the MRC?
•Professionals working in the healthcare industry, or a health related field, within the Licking
County, Ohio area:
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Retired
Practicing
All licenses and certifications
(I.E. RNs, LPNs, APNs, DOs, MDs, Pharmacists, Dentist, Social Workers, Vets, Students, EMTs, etc.)
Computer techs, clerks, receptionist, etc.
Interpreters, chaplains, legal advisors, etc.
What is the purpose of the MRC?
•To strengthen communities by helping medical •Creates organized and trained volunteers
before an emergency occurs.
and public health volunteers offer their
expertise throughout the emergency planning •Helps minimize overuse, or exhausting, a
processes, as well as during times of
resource during an emergency.
community need and emergency.
•Helps the community with preparedness and
• Having a network of community health
emergency training before an emergency.
professionals gives the LCHD a larger pool of
subject matter experts to look to for input and
feedback throughout the year.
• Having a ready-to-activate network of
community health professionals allows Licking
County communities to respond to emergencies
and disasters quick and efficiently.
•Enhances disaster response and year round
betterment programs.
•Can help members with continuing education
credits.
“To be a member, what do I need to do?”
WHAT IS REQUIRED TO JOIN?
•Work in or around the healthcare industry
within Licking County.
•Complete this training.
•Maintain an active medical license, if required
for your profession.
•Be available to volunteer during times of
emergency in the Licking County area.
•Participate in exercises.
WHAT IS ENCOURAGED FOR OUR MEMBERS?
•Attend quarterly meetings.
•Volunteer for other events and programs
offered in the Licking County area.
•Keep in touch with the MRC coordinator.
•Establish a Planning Committee
• Committee will further organize the MRC
• Committee can meet as determined by the
members in addition to the quarterly meetings
Trainings
AVAILABLE NOW
RECOMMENDED
ICS (Incident Command System)
MRC 101 (this course)
Role of Voluntary Agencies in Emergency
Management
IS – 100 *** (I can send you a link)
NIMS (National Incident Management System)
Emergency Management 101
CPR/First Aid/AED/Basic Triage
**If you have any of these, please email me
your certificates or documentation.
IS – 700 *** (I can send you a link)
IS – 200 (Team Leaders)
IS – 800 (Team Leaders)
Volunteers can be as
involved as they would
like to be.
The Planning Committee
•Responsible for steering the actions and policies of the group.
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What trainings to have?
What topics to cover?
What exercises to participate in?
What are the membership requirements?
Etc.
•Comprised of leaders from within the MRC
• Can be elected or nominated into position.
• Can be as large or small of a committee as you would like.
• Can develop organizational titles.
MRC Organization Chart
MRC Coordinator
MRC Planning
Committee
MRC Task Force
MRC Task Force
Team of 5-8
MRC Task Force
Team of 5-8
Team of 5-8
When does the MRC activate?
•DISASTERS THAT CAUSE PUBLIC HEALTH CONCERN
•When natural disasters occur in the community.
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Tornadoes
Snows
Floods
Ice storms
•When man-made disasters occur in the community.
• Hazardous materials spill (on our highways 79, 16 and 161, or our interstate 70)
• Newark is the industrial center for the aerospace, lighting and fiberglass insulation industries, meaning
large factories with hazards.
•Mass Vaccination Clinics
NIMS Organizational Chart
WHAT IS HAPPENING AT A COMMAND POST:
Incident
Commander
PIO
Safety Officer
Liaison Officer
Operations
Logistics
Plans
Finance and
Admin.
WHERE THE MRC WOULD FIT IN:
Logistics
Staging Facility
Officer
MRC Leader
Red Cross
Salvation Army
Team #1
Team #1
Team #1
Team #2
Team #2
Team #2
How does the MRC activate?
THE PROCESS…
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WHERE MRC WILL ASSIST, GENERALLY…
An agency or organization makes a request for the
Licking County MRC to the Health Commissioner,
or Deputy Health Commissioner
Red Cross Shelters
The Health Commissioner contacts the MRC
Coordinator
Mass Evacuation Shelters
The MRC Coordinator sends notice to all MRC
members; the Planning Committee assists in
organizing volunteers
Counseling for First Responders and Residents
Volunteers bring appropriate identification to
disaster scene to be credentialed and check in with
the MRC Leader on site
Volunteers receive incident briefing by the
appointed person on scene
Special Medical Needs Shelters
Surge Capacity
Decontamination
Cooling Shelters
Mass Vaccination Clinics
Community Containment
When does the MRC meet during nonemergency?
•Quarterly
• August, November, February and May
• By vote it will be the same day each month, quarterly
•Smaller, subgroup meetings can be arranged and are encouraged to coordinate volunteers for
different volunteer opportunities.
Where does the MRC have an impact?
Licking County and the surrounding communities.
Members can volunteer to help other community MRC organizations as well.
◦ National program = MRCs across the nation.
Survey Feedback
If you have not had time, please take the MRC survey before Sept. 5 so I can gather your
responses.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TF8Z2CP
Websites
•www.medicalreservecorps.gov
•www.serveohio.org
•www.volunteer.gov
•www.serve.gov
•www.ready.gov/citizen-corps
MRC Coordinator Contact Information
Tabitha N. Haynes
Public Information Officer and MRC Coordinator
Licking County Health Department
(740) 349-6488 Office
(740) 405-5993 Cell
[email protected]
675 Price Rd.
Newark, Ohio 43055