Medical Reserve Corps

The first response to any disaster is a local response.  Be ready to lend your medical skills and health expertise.  Your willingness to volunteer your skills and knowledge is what the MRC is all about.  It starts with individuals like you—individuals who care enough to pool their resources when large scale emergencies hit close to home.

When you add your expertise to our local emergency planning effort, you become part of our local organizing effort.  We are building from the ground up because our community’s needs have their own unique character, and because those of us who live here have the greatest incentive to make the best use of our local resources.  Each of us can make a difference.

Who can volunteer for the Medical Reserve Corps?
• Practicing, retired or otherwise employed medical professionals, such as doctors, dentists, nurses, emergency medical technicians, pharmacists, nurses’ assistants and others. 

• Public health professionals.

• Community members without medical training are encouraged to volunteer in order to assist with administrative and other essential support functions.

What do Medical Reserve Corps do?
It varies depending on the nature of the emergency and our ongoing need for community health outreach and education.  What we do

The CCMRC hosted an Open House at Dot's American Restaurant in Hopkinsville to encourage volunteer networking and new member recruitment.

know is that major emergencies can overwhelm the capabilities of our first responders, especially during the first 12 to 72 hours.  Medical and other health volunteers can provide an important “surge” capacity during that critical period.   In short, we often need medically trained individuals to fill in the gaps in our emergency response plans and to improve our response capabilities overall.

Help us be smart about emergency preparedness and response. Think about the difference you could make by lending your expertise.

Please contact your local MRC Coordinator, Erin Westerfield at 270-887-4160 ext. 128 and become part of the solution.

The MRC Volunteer Application and handbook are accessible via the links below.  As a potential volunteer, you can download the application, handbook and background check. 

Please complete the forms at the end of the handbook and return to Laura Hammons at CCHD. Forms may be returned by mail or in-person in an envelope to the attention of Laura Hammons.  Potential volunteers will be contacted once the application is received. 

MRC Volunteer Application

MRC Volunteer Handbook

Also visit the national website at www.medicalreservecorps.gov
Register online at www.khelps.chfs.ky.gov to become a volunteer and you will be contacted by the MRC coordinator.

Visit www.peadd.info for more information about our local MRC.  (Once on www.peadd.info site, choose the Citizen Corps page.)