SMAT II TEAMS
A SMAT II team is a hospital based team of medical professionals established to provide patient decontamination, mass medical care, alternate care facilities, and mass drug distribution points. North Carolina currently has eight SMAT II teams, which are based at each of the RAC sponsor hospitals.

Mission:  

• Assist in hospitals
• Establish a forty bed alternate care facility
• Establish a mass immunization/drug distribution center
• Maintain operations for at least three days

SMAT III TEAMS
A SMAT III team is an EMS or Fire Department based team that is designed to be the first line of response in support of local agencies in the event of a decontamination event or mass medical care event. There are currently twenty-nine SMAT III teams across the State of North Carolina.  The five SMAT III teams affiliated with MATRAC are as follows: Buncombe, Henderson, Cherokee Tribal, McDowell and Cherokee County.

• Each team should consist of at least seven members during a deployment. At a minimum there must be at least one paramedic and six EMT’s or higher on each deployment. Each team should be trained three deep for each position, to provide for three complete shifts. Other medical professionals and support staff may be added to the minimum for support of the team’s operation.
• SMAT III teams can be activated to provide rapid victim decontamination and mass casualty medical care on a local, regional or statewide level. Teams should be able to deploy locally within an hour and be ready to deploy statewide with two hours. Teams can be activated by the local host agency or regionally or statewide by the NC Department of Emergency management through the Statewide Mutual Aid Agreement.

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For SMAT or other disaster related education and training i.e Triage, decon, disaster preparedness, assistance with exercise evaluation/controllers etc, please contact:

Mark Stepp RN, EMT
MATRAC SMAT Team Commander/ Regional Training Officer
103 Education Drive
Flat Rock, NC 28731
828-693-6213 office

828-775-0775 mobile
mark.stepp@msj.org