Please see note below regarding medical volunteersresponding through National Disaster Medical Assistance. This may be anoption for some of your health care volunteers.Note web sites: http://www.hhs.gov/ and http://www.medicalreservecorps.gov/
Barbara StoneConsultant
--Mission Volunteers
--UMCORUnited Methodist Global
Ministriesbcstone@ktis.net
573-253-1374
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is requesting physicians ofspecific specialities to deploy with the National Disaster MedicalAssistance teams to Haiti. The need is for trauma surgeons, orthopedists,anesthesiologists, and others with experience in treating crushinjuries. Volunteers must be able to serve for at least 2 weeks, and bewilling to live and work in spartan conditions.
Preference will be given to physicians who are Creole or French speakers, and to thosecurrently credentialed through the Medical Reserve Corps in their home state,or the ESAR-VHP program (Emergency Services Advanced Registration of VolunteerHealth Personnel).
These volunteers will need to be credentialed as temporary federal employees andwill need to be able to provide credentialing paperwork as soon as asked. Credentialing normally takes about a week. Volunteers with these clinicalskills should contact Michala Koch at Michala.Koch@hhs.gov. Not everyone who wishes to help will necessarily be deployed, and those withoutthe requisite skills may not receive a direct response.
For medical professionals wishing to help in this way in future relief efforts,please take a few minutes to learn about the Medical Reserve Corps, identifyyour local unit, and register to become part of the corps. To do so,visit http://www.medicalreservecorps.gov/. This is the channel through which medical volunteers are deployed immediatelyfollowing an event, and only those registered beforehand are likely to bedeployed.
Barbara StoneConsultant
--Mission Volunteers
--UMCORUnited Methodist Global
Ministriesbcstone@ktis.net
573-253-1374
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is requesting physicians ofspecific specialities to deploy with the National Disaster MedicalAssistance teams to Haiti. The need is for trauma surgeons, orthopedists,anesthesiologists, and others with experience in treating crushinjuries. Volunteers must be able to serve for at least 2 weeks, and bewilling to live and work in spartan conditions.Preference will be given to physicians who are Creole or French speakers, and to thosecurrently credentialed through the Medical Reserve Corps in their home state,or the ESAR-VHP program (Emergency Services Advanced Registration of VolunteerHealth Personnel).
These volunteers will need to be credentialed as temporary federal employees andwill need to be able to provide credentialing paperwork as soon as asked. Credentialing normally takes about a week. Volunteers with these clinicalskills should contact Michala Koch at Michala.Koch@hhs.gov. Not everyone who wishes to help will necessarily be deployed, and those withoutthe requisite skills may not receive a direct response.
For medical professionals wishing to help in this way in future relief efforts,please take a few minutes to learn about the Medical Reserve Corps, identifyyour local unit, and register to become part of the corps. To do so,visit http://www.medicalreservecorps.gov/. This is the channel through which medical volunteers are deployed immediatelyfollowing an event, and only those registered beforehand are likely to bedeployed.
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