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UC Davis Veterinary Emergency Response Team MRC Unit Profile
| Community/Jurisdiction Served: |
California -
Sacramento County, Yolo County
Can respond to other areas with mutual aid requests via OES.
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| Sponsoring Organization: |
School of Veterinary Medicine - UC Davis
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| Date Established: |
1/28/2008
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| Unit Information: |
1 Shields Drive
Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital
Davis, CA 95616
http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/clubs/VERT/
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| Contact Information: |
Tracey Stevens-Martin
1Shields Drive - VM3A
Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital
Davis, CA 95616
Phone: 530-752-3140
Cell: 530-219-5390
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| Profile: |
The Veterinary Emergency Response Team (VERT) was formed in 1997 after the Yuba County floods. The unit functions as a source of veterinary response in horse or large animal accidents, technical large animal rescue, including equine helicopter rescue, and veterinary disaster and emergency response for Yolo or adjacent counties.
The Mission of VERT is three fold: 1)teaching/training in disaster response, rescue methods, hosting Disaster and Emergency Symposiums, 2) Research- develop protocols, develop equipment, create local and national guidelines, 3) Service-individual horse rescue, disaster response resource, Disaster Service Worker. Voluteers are UC Davis veterinary faculty, veterinary residents, veterinary students, UC staff. We coordiante with Yolo county Animals Services, Yolo County OES, other agencies upon request including Yolo County Sherrif, Fire Depts, California Veterinary Medical Association, and humane organizations. We have responded in Yuba county floods (1997), Hurricane Floyd, Yuba fires, Yolo County fire of 06 (1200 burned sheep), Animal control individual or herd inspections, horse airlifts: Sierra Neveda Mountains, Auburn, Bishop,ca, Marine Mountain Warfare Training Center, San Diego county equine airlifts with US Navy, Air National Guard airlift training, Felton Fire dual teaching responsibilities on animal rescue at UC sponsored symposium. In 2007 created a Emergency Services Protocol and Fund for equine accident and emergency response in State of California. Developed the UC Davis Anderson sling for rescue and airlift and the UC Davis Large Animal Lift for horse extraction and lifting.
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| Volunteer Count: |
| Physicians |
2 |
| Physician Assistants |
0 |
| Nurse Practitioners |
1 |
| Nurses |
0 |
| Pharmacists |
2 |
| Dentists |
0 |
| Veterinarians |
10 |
| Mental Health Professionals |
0 |
| EMS Professionals |
1 |
| Respiratory Therapists |
0 |
| Other Public Health/Medical |
8 |
| Non-Public Health/Non-Medical |
40 |
| Total |
64 |
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| Recent Activities: |
5/3/2010
VERT/MRC Monthly Meeting
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4/19/2010
International Animal Welfare Training Institute Hosted Guest Speaker Heather Case, DVM. Topic was AVMA-VMAT Program
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4/17/2010
Participated in UC Davis - Picnic Day. VERT/MRC had a booth set up and then did two airlift demonstrations with fake horse and Sac Metro Fire helicopter - viewed by over 200+ spectators
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4/10/2010
VERT/MRC Advanced Training Module Helicopter Airlift Rescue/Sling Training
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4/5/2010
VERT/MRC Monthly Meeting
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Last Updated on 7/12/2010
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