National Center for Medical Readiness

EMT-Refresher course at Calamityville

About Us

Vision

To be the international center of excellence in medical readiness education, training, research and operations.

Mission

To integrate medical readiness into all aspects of healthcare, public safety, public health and homeland security systems.

Four Disaster Preparedness/Response/Recovery Goals Define Medical Readiness

  • Human Population and Healthcare Risk Assessment — consists of pre-event analysis and system resource assessment applied to a wide array of communities and geographic regions. The goal is to reduce the disaster risk and impact by anticipating response needs, identifying vulnerabilities and assessing capabilities in specific regions and communities.
  • Human Survivability Systems — establishes a medical first provider-based continuum of care from point of injury/illness through to evacuation. The emphasis is placed on developing and coordinating patient detection technologies, advanced field triage and stabilization and resource allocation and coordination in the mass casualty environment.
  • Dynamic Medical Systems (Surge/Supply Chain Management) — develops, plans and deploys modular, scalable, medical surge systems to augment and integrate with federal resources, including Metropolitan Medical Response System/Regional Medical Response System (MMRS/RMRS), Disaster Medical Assistance Teams (DMAT), Federal Medical Stations (FMS) and the Department of Defense (DoD). These pre-positioned assets protect a community's critical healthcare infrastructure capacity during a disaster/mass casualty event.
  • Healthcare System Recovery (Critical Infrastructure/Community Resiliency) — identifies the essential components of health care in the community required for rapid recovery (operational issues, logistics needs and financial implications).

Partners

The National Center for Medical Readiness partners with regional, state, federal, military and private sector agencies and organizations to achieve its mission.

Wright State University
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Community/State Resources
Consortia


The National Center for Medical Readiness is a founding member of the Food and Agricultural Protection Training Consortium (FAPTC), a consortium of several nationally recognized universities. The FAPTC works together to support the nation’s unified effort to bring all levels of the food safety system to new training levels to prevent, protect against, respond to and recover from high-consequence events.
 


NCMR is a partner in the National Domestic Preparedness Consortium (NDPC), a professional alliance sponsored through the Department of Homeland Security/FEMA National Preparedness Directorate. The NDPC is a partnership of several nationally recognized organizations whose membership is based on the urgent need to address the counter-terrorism preparedness needs of the nation’s emergency first responders within the context of all hazards including chemical, biological, radiological and explosive weapons of mass destruction (WMD) hazards.

Key Support

The NCMR and Calamityville are made possible with the support of CEMEX, the city of Fairborn, the Clean Ohio Revitalization Fund, the Dayton Development Coalition, the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Air Force, the state of Ohio, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Brownfields Program, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Wright State University, Boonshoft School of Medicine, the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and a coalition of state and federal legislators including former Ohio House Speaker (now Ohio Secretary of State) Jon Husted, former state Rep. Kevin DeWine, U.S. Rep. (Ret.) David Hobson, U.S. Rep. Steve Austria, state Sen. Chris Widener and U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown and Robert Portman.

Last updated: February 27, 2012