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Panhandle Medical Reserve Corps Unit Profile

Community/Jurisdiction Served:

Nebraska - Banner County, Box Butte County, Cheyenne County, Dawes County, Deuel County, Garden County, Kimball County, Morrill County, Scotts Bluff County, Sheridan County, Sioux County

Sponsoring Organization:

Panhandle Public Health District

Date Established:

10/6/2007

Unit Information:

PO Box 1115
208 E 6th Street
Bridgeport, NE 69336
http://www.pphd.org

Contact Information:

Melody Leisy
PO Box 1115
208 E 6th Street
Bridgeport, NE 69336
Phone: (308) 262-2217
Cell: (308) 262-0488

Profile:

The Panhandle Medical Reserve Corps, administered by Panhandle Public Health District, is developed to engage health care professionals in helping the Panhandle communities prepare for, respond to, and mitigate emergencies and disasters by providing a group of readily trained and available volunteer professionals who supplement and assist the local medical emergency response system. The MRC program is administered by the Panhandle Region Medical Response System (PRMRS). PRMRS comprises 11 Counties and includes 9 hospitals and 2 public health jurisdictions. This group has a Steering Committee made up of the Chief Executive Officers of the 9 hospitals and a Leadership Committee made up of representatives from each hospital, emergency managers, Region 1 Behavioral Health, two public health districts, the FQHC, and Emergency Medical Services. A Planning and Implementation Team which is five of the above mentioned representatives provide direction and coordination of the group. The MRC will fall under a newly formed regional Citizen Corp Council in the Panhandle. Our mission is to establish policies, procedures, and protocols regarding operations, managing spontaneous volunteers, and conducting recruiting initiatives within the medical community in order to establish core volunteers to assist in mass immunization/prophylaxis clinics, create general medical and mental health surge capacity, and public health emergency preparedness planning. Most of the Panhandle of Nebraska is designated as a health professional shortage area. Because of that, our initial recruitment efforts will target those health professionals not already employed by or working with acute care facilities. Our initial recruitment efforts will be towards nurses in the school, community, and parish settings. Other disciplines will be targeted in later.

Volunteer Count:

Physicians	0
Physician Assistants	0
Nurse Practitioners	0
Nurses	25
Pharmacists	0
Dentists	0
Veterinarians	0
Mental Health Professionals	0
EMS Professionals	0
Respiratory Therapists	0
Other Public Health/Medical	1
Non-Public Health/Non-Medical	0
Total	26

Recent Activities:

6/18/2010
Chadron Hospital Evacuation Exercise

4/8/2010
Volunteer Appreciation and Recruitment

4/7/2010
Volunteer Appreciation and Recruitment

4/6/2010
Chadron area Volunteer Appreciation and recruitment

1/19/2010
Alliance H1N1 Clinic

Last Updated on 7/29/2010