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The Readiness Dispatch. This newsletter will be used for updates and information about the Emergency Credentialing Program and the Medical Reserve Corps.
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In An Emergency,
How Will You Respond?
BE THE RESPONSE.
WHY VOLUNTEER?
The threat of pandemic influenza, recent flooding in Connecticut, the devastation caused by record-breaking storms during the 2008 hurricane seasons and the September 11th terrorist attacks have underscored the importance of having an emergency response plan that allows our hospitals and healthcare systems to quickly mobilize the resources they need to maintain or increase facility, equipment and personnel capacity. By volunteering during a large-scale disaster or public health emergency, you will be ensuring that Connecticut's citizens - your family, friends and neighbors - have uninterrupted access to vital healthcare resources when they need them most!
Enroll in the State of Connecticut Emergency Credentialing Program or the Medical Reserve Corps at the Yale New Haven Center for Emergency Preparedness. Please visit
(203) 688-3224. | |
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ESAR-VHP? CT ECP?
What's in a name?
Many of our volunteers have heard of the Emergency System for Advance Registration of Volunteer Health Professionals (ESAR-VHP) program which is directed by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), a branch of the Department of Health and Human Services. ESAR-VHP is a federal program put in place after September 11, 2001, to provide coordination and develop a systematic way to classify and pre-credential medical professional volunteers who would be ready to respond to a local, state or national disaster.
For those of you who are thinking, "that sounds like the Connecticut ECP program," you are right. In fact, each state in the US is required by law to have an ESAR-VHP program as a part of their preparedness and response plan. Many have chosen to name their programs to reflect their individual state's activities (for example, Minnesota Responds, WV REDI, WEAVR (WI) and CT ECP, to list a few).
The federal ESAR-VHP program serves to coordinate the state and local programs but has no volunteers or the ability to deliver volunteers on its own. The state programs are where the action is and are the key in any response; volunteers, such as you, are what make the difference! |
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CT ECP/YNH-MRC Types of Volunteers
The graph below depicts the types of volunteers in the ECP and MRC programs.
(Current as of October 2008) |
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Is your ECP or MRC profile current?
ECP and MRC volunteers are reminded that they should keep their contact information current.
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