The Mountain Regional Medical Reserve Corps (MRMRC) is a team of volunteer health care professionals and auxiliary personnel who are trained to respond and assist the local emergency responders and public health professionals in the eighteen counties comprising the Western North Carolina Region. Volunteers are pre-identified, organized, and credentialed.

Mission
Our mission is to preserve and protect the health and safety of Western North Carolina communities by engaging, organizing, and mobilizing public health, medical and other volunteers. MRMRC can augment the function of our region’s emergency response system during times of local or regional public health, hospital and emergency surge capacities.
MRMRC serves 17 counties in Western North Carolina and comprises two districts within the Mountain Area Trauma Regional Advisory Committee (MATRAC).
Western district 1: Clay, Cherokee, Graham, Haywood, Jackson, Swain, Macon and the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians.
Eastern district 2: Avery, Buncombe, Henderson, Madison, McDowell, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Transylvania, and Yancey.

Purpose
MRMRC was organized to promote public health and safety across the region, in three key areas:

1. Public Health Emergencies – events that threaten public health, such as a disease outbreak.
2. Mass Casualty Incidents – disasters that cause injury or threats to large numbers of people. These can include a fire, storm, flood, building collapse, or other event that displaces groups of residents that must be moved to shelters. During emergencies, MRMRC volunteers may provide surge capability to perform some functions usually performed by emergency medical response teams who have been mobilized. MRMRC volunteers can also augment medical and support staff shortages at vulnerable population and alternate care facilities.
3. Community Service Activities – opportunities to foster the well-being of local residents; such as flu clinics, health fairs, blood pressure clinics, or training programs.

Click her for MRC Handbook, updated version 2-01-2010 in later version of Word

          Mountain Regional Medical Reserve Corps Coordinators

Jan Lounsbury, Coordinator
(828) 689-5006
Mrmrc2@yahoo.com

         Mike West, Coordinator

          (828)273-3442

          mwest_mrc@yahoo.com