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| - The National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) is
- NDMS’s federal partners include the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Defense (DOD), and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). NDMS also interfaces with state and local Departments of Health, as well as private hospitals. (Note:NDMS was returned to DHHS (US Department of Health and Human Services) on January 1, 2007 by an act of Congress). NDMS has three major components: Over 8,000 NDMS civilian volunteer medical personnel are organized into a number of types of medical teams, designed accomplish the emrgency medical response mission. Additional information in next section.
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| - The National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) is
- NDMS’s federal partners include the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Defense (DOD), and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). NDMS also interfaces with state and local Departments of Health, as well as private hospitals. (Note:NDMS was returned to DHHS (US Department of Health and Human Services) on January 1, 2007 by an act of Congress). NDMS has three major components: 1.
* Emergency medical response with civilian medical teams, equipment, and supplies to a disaster area when local medical resources are overwhelmed 2.
* Movement of ill and injured patients from a disaster area to areas unaffected by the disaster 3.
* Definitive care of patients at hospitals in areas unaffected by the disaster. Over 8,000 NDMS civilian volunteer medical personnel are organized into a number of types of medical teams, designed accomplish the emrgency medical response mission. Additional information in next section. To move (evacuate) patients from a disaster area, transport is conducted by the United States Air Force and coordinated by Federal Coordinating Centers (FCCs) in each FEMA region. Patients arriving in the region are then dispersed to local NDMS participating hospital. Over 1,800 civilian hospitals in the U.S. are members of NDMS. Their role is to provide approximately 100,000 treatment beds to support NDMS operations in an emergency. When a civilian or military crisis requires the activation of the NDMS system, participating hospitals communicate their available bed space to a central control point. Patients are able to be distributed to a number of hospitals without overwhelming any one facility with casualties. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in the fall of 2005, the NDMS system activated almost all of their civilian medical teams to assist victims in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi; helped evacuate hundreds of medical patients from the affected areas; and augmented medical staffing levels at hospitals impacted by the evacuations.
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