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How can I help
when disaster strikes home?
Contact UsSouthwest Florida MRC
2995 Victoria Avenue
Fort Myers, FL 33901
Phone: 239/461-6109
Email: swflmrc@gmail.com
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In Southwest Florida, disasters such as Hurricanes Charley and Wilma, wildfires and mass-casualty incidents are tragically familiar. Other threats like terrorism and pandemic flu may lie just beyond the horizon. When such events occur they threaten to overwhelm local healthcare resources.
Often impossible to avert or prevent, large-scale emergencies have sharpened our understanding of the health dangers we face. They’ve made us aware of the importance of emergency preparedness, and of the need for a volunteer organization of practicing and retired medical professionals teamed with non-health field lay citizens ready to fill the gaps in care that arise when disaster strikes home. The Southwest Florida Medical Reserve Corps is that organization.
Volunteers with SW Florida MRC understand that the first response in times of need is local response. As a MRC volunteer you are disaster trained and credentialed. Sponsored by the Lee County Health Department, the MRC is integrated into this area’s emergency management system. When deployed by LCHD, volunteers are protected from liability under Florida Sovereign Immunity Statutes and workers’ compensation insurance is provided.
See the MRC video [Windows Media Format] or video [Quicktime Format] or the FAQ section of this website for more overview details
If you’ve ever asked, “how can I help?”, check out the SW Florida MRC Volunteers Needed appeal now and then click on the Join Up page!
Southwest Florida Prepares
Financial stability is crucial to growing and sustaining this local volunteer effort, and to building meaningful partnerships with area first responders. To insure the health the SW Florida MRC, local citizen volunteers created Southwest Florida Prepares, a 501(c)(3) not for profit foundation.
The mission of the foundation is three-fold:
- Raising funds through memberships and grants to support recruitment, training and certification of SW Florida MRC volunteers.
- Provide needed infrastructure (database, website and other administrative resources to support the local MRC program and its volunteers.
- Develop new and/or improved mechanisms for dealing with medical emergencies and disasters.
Don’t wait for disaster to strike. Make a remarkable contribution to local preparedness today. Contact Southwest Florida Prepares, P.O. Box 9, Sanibel, FL 33924; phone 239/896-2904, or apply for membership online by clicking on SW Florida MRC JOIN UP page on this website.
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