- National Center for Medical Readiness
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National Center for Medical Readiness 
National Center for Medical Readiness symbolFormation 2010 Type Emergency management Purpose/focus Emergency response Headquarters Dayton, Ohio, U.S. Region served United States Executive Director Glenn C. Hamilton, M.D. Website www.medicalrediness.org The National Center for Medical Readiness (NCMR) is a program aimed at training and preparing medical workers, military workers, and specialized civilians for large scale emergencies, such as a weather disaster, terrorist attack or hazmat situation.
Calamityville
Calamityville is a training and research facility, located in Fairborn, Ohio, to provide training opportunities for medical, public health, public safety, and civilian and military disaster response persons who have the responsibility to be decision makers. It is the training facility associated with the National Center for Medical Readiness. The Calamityville site was donated by Cemex a cement producing company.[1]
The different ares of Calamityville focus on preparing medical responders (ER Doctors and nurses), and medical-based decision makers (administrators, managers) to react in a responsible and cost effective way to the increased patient volume, and changes in the normal infrastructure which come out of most mass casualty/disaster events. The training grounds will include a mock neighborhood with props for a flood, plane crash and building collapse simulations. A rail line may one day cut through the back of the facility to provide a grounds for simulations of various disasters, such as de-railed rail cars, and a body of water with a mock plane for simulating water and land evacuations.[2]
This facility attempts to bridge the gap between medical readiness and disaster response through the making and deployment of training programs that offer solutions to dynamic emergency rescue challenges including:[3]
- Gaining access to trapped and missing persons;
- Providing a high level of medical care in the most adverse of environments;
- Evacuating victims in the safest and most effective way possible, to receive the utmost care and recovery.
Calamityville will also provide a large economic impact on the Dayton region. It is estimated that over a five year span the site will generate an economic impact to the Dayton Region of around $374 million and create 35 permanent full time jobs.[4]
References
- ^ Levingston, Chelsey (2010-04-22). "Dayton Biz Journal Editorial". http://dayton.bizjournals.com/dayton/stories/2010/04/19/daily27.html. Retrieved 2010-04-23.
- ^ "DBJ Article". http://dayton.bizjournals.com/dayton/stories/2010/04/19/daily27.htm. Retrieved 2010-04-12.[dead link]
- ^ "Calamityville NCMR Site". http://www.medicalreadiness.org/calamityville/. Retrieved 2010-04-13.
- ^ "Medical Readiness PDF". http://www.medicalreadiness.org/calamityville/pdfs/EconomicImpact.pdf. Retrieved 2010-04-12.
External links
Categories:- Disaster preparedness in the United States
- Economy of Dayton, Ohio
- Healthcare in Dayton, Ohio
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