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The Mission, Vision, and Goals of the Pennington County MRC

Mission
The Pennington County Medical Reserve Corp exists to support the disaster response and recovery capability of Pennington County and the surrounding Black Hills of South Dakota by identifying, training, and equipping medical and non-medical volunteers to work within the framework of a multi-agency incident command system.

Vision:
The Pennington County Medical Reserve Corp will provide skilled and unskilled volunteers to support a disaster response due to emerging public health threats (pandemic influenza), natural disasters (floods, wild fires, extreme weather), and man made threats (bioterrorism, WMD).

Goals:

Provide the skilled and unskilled staff to set up and manage an alternate care that provides one of the following: medical surge capacity, shelter, or palliative care based upon the needs identified in the community risk assessment.
Provide the skilled and unskilled staff to assist in the operation of the Point of Dispensing (POD) sites identified in Pennington County CRI plan.
Identify and support methods to identify, train, and organize semi-skilled staff to augment non-medical center patient care facilities (nursing homes, assisted living centers) to enhance pandemic influenza response and recovery capabilities.

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Local medical and public health professionals volunteering to protect health and safety in Pennington County and the Black Hills of South Dakota.

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Local medical and public health professionals volunteering
to protect health and safety in Pennington County
and the Black Hills of South Dakota.