The mission of the San Mateo Coastside Medical Reserve Corps is to enhance the emergency preparedness and response capabilities of the Coastside through advanced registration, organization, and training of volunteer health professionals who can be readily mobilized to respond to a major emergency or disaster, whether man-made or natural, when the existing health infrastructure is overwhelmed and unable to provide needed medical care in a timely manner.
Program Objectives:
·To develop and maintain a San Mateo Coastside Medical Reserve Corps that is officially recognized by both the State and Federal governments.
·To proactively swear each volunteer (both licensed and non-licensed) into the local emergency response system as a Disaster Service Worker.
·To register every volunteer (both licensed and non-licensed) into the California Medical Volunteers database.
·To provide qualified medical professionals that can, on a temporary or emergency basis, assist the local agencies in a voluntary capacity in expanding its available number of medical professionals that could be deployed to either medical/health programs or to the private sector (e.g. hospitals or clinics).
·To provide qualified medical professionals that are willing to volunteer time to the Coastside MRC in non-emergency activities requiring medical knowledge or expertise (e.g. community education or immunizations).
·To create a continuing education program for medical professionals as an incentive to maintaining membership on the Medical Reserve Corps. Such training shall include, but not be limited to, continuing education classes that will familiarize the medical volunteer with the emergency response plan of the San Mateo Coastside.
