The Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) is a group of both medical and non-medical volunteers across Virginia. Created after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, volunteers are utilized for various tasks in our local health district.
MRC units throughout the state actively improve and protect their community’s public health by supporting:
- Health education and preventative health screenings.
- Efforts to provide medical services to at-risk populations.
- Communicable disease outbreak response.
- Volunteer emergency preparedness training and exercises.
- Local, state and national response to terrorism attacks and disasters; providing staffing support for medical services, emergency shelters, mental health outreach, dispensing sites for medications and vaccinations, disease investigations and environmental health efforts for food and human safety.
In Southside, our volunteers have helped VDH with traffic flow at food truck inspections; helped local pantries serve the community on their donation days; supported VDH at a Health Fair at local Rehabilitation center to ensure staff was properly educated on hand washing, PPE, and disinfecting; have taught REVIVE classes to community members; community outreach and attended local events to share emergency preparedness through games and literature.
For more information, you can visit the Virginia MRC website or contact our local MRC Coordinator, Amanda Hutchins at (804) 914-2608 or [email protected].