Medical Reserve Corps

About the Medical Reserve Corps

The Toledo-Lucas County Health Department is always looking for medical volunteers to join the Lucas County Medical Reserve Corps to assist during a declared disaster. This could include treatment of victims during a mass disaster or epidemic, administration of vaccines during a mass inoculation, or distribution of drugs during a chemical or biological attack.

Specifically, the Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) is looking to recruit:

Physicians, Physician Assistants, Nurses, Paramedics/EMTs, Chiropractors, Pharmacists, Dentists, Psychologists, Social Workers, Massage Therapists, Physical Therapists, Respiratory Therapists, Radiology Technicians,Veterinarians, Veterinary Technicians

Medical Reserve Corps is one of several components of Citizens Corps of the USA Freedom Corps. MRC is the unit that bring together local health professionals and others with relevant health related skills to respond to local natural and man-made disasters in their community.

By creating a Medical Reserve Corps that is linked to a local government’s emergency operations plan, the members of the MRC unit can truly benefit the community by understanding the local emergency plan and knowing what their roles will be during an emergency

Join our Team

To learn more about what we do and what we’ve done, please visit the Lucas County MRC page of the Medical Reserve Corps website at https://www.medicalreservecorps.gov/MrcUnits/UnitDetails/27.

If you choose to volunteer with the Lucas County MRC, your help will be greatly appreciated.

To register you will need to complete a brief profile on the Ohio responds website at http://ohioresponds.gov/. All information entered into the volunteer profile is contained in a secure database and will be kept confidential.

Connect to MRC on Social Media

Facebook: LucasCountyMRC
Twitter: @LucasCountyMRC