| Our Mission:
The Northeast Missouri Medical Reserve Corps is a volunteer group that can supplement existing community emergency medical resources, as well as contribute to meeting the public health needs of the community. Welcome! “The first response is a local response”. Many of our fellow Missouri communities are no strangers to disasters; our rural location makes it easy for our resources to become overwhelmed. It takes time for other federal and state resources to arrive for assistance; we may be on our own for up to the first 72 hours of a disaster. If there’s no federal disaster declaration, we may be on our own financially as well. That’s why it’s important for all of us to work together and assist each other. The Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) program was created after the 9/11 disasters to allow citizens to volunteer to serve their country and their communities. The Northeast Missouri Medical Reserve Corps is proud to join Columbia and Kansas City as one of three pilot programs in the state, and we are excited to welcome Jefferson City on board this year. We are currently grant-funded, although many communities have developed MRC’s at their own expense to fulfill the needs of their communities. The MRC has been created to “fill in the gaps” and assist wherever there is a need; this makes each unit unique to its own community. Directed by Lloyd J. Cleaver, D.O. and David Vick, D.O., we are housed on the campus of A.T. Still University in Kirksville. Our meetings and training sessions, held at varying locations around Kirksville, are open to the public, and we welcome guests at any time. *Click here to check our upcoming meeting schedule. For more information about the Northeast Missouri Medical Reserve Corps, contact:
The Northeast Missouri Medical Reserve Corps is supported by grant number MRCSG030058-02 from the Dept. of Health and Human Services, Office of Public Health and Science, Office of the Surgeon General. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the grant funding agency. |
