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Hampton Roads
Metropolitan Medical Response System
(HRMMRS)
- The Metropolitan Medical Response System (MMRS) is a U.S. Department of Homeland Security Grant Program that provides funding to the 124 largest jurisdictions to support the integration of emergency management, health, and medical systems into a coordinated response to mass casualty incidents caused by any hazard. The MMRS program reduces the consequences of a mass casualty incident during the initial period of a response by having augmented existing local operational response systems before the incident occurs. It is the only federal grant program that supports multidisciplinary mass casualty response planning at the local/regional level.
- The Hampton Roads Metropolitan Medical Response System (HRMMRS) was developed under the direction of the Hampton Roads Planning District Commission (HRPDC) in 1999. It includes the cities of Chesapeake, Franklin, Hampton, Newport News, Norfolk, Poquoson, Portsmouth, Suffolk, Virginia Beach and Williamsburg and the counties of Gloucester, Isle of Wight, James City, Southampton, Surry and York. It covers an area of 2900 square miles and a population of 1,640,000. The HRPDC contracts with the Tidewater EMS Council to manage the activities of the HRMMRS.
- The HRMMRS supports and enhances Hampton Roads public safety, hospital, public health, and emergency management response capabilities to manage mass casualty incidents. Over 250 individuals from almost 90 local and state agencies and organizations are involved in planning, training and exercises.
- The HRMMRS supports, equips and trains a 47-member (242 member call group) Hampton Roads Metropolitan Medical Strike Team (HRMMST) that provides on-scene expertise and resources to the Incident Commander during a disaster. The HRMMST is a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosives (CBRNE) trained medical emergency response team that maintains a redundant response capability of personnel, trucks, trailers, equipment, supplies, and communications on the Peninsula and Southside.
- The HRMMRS maintains a pharmaceutical cache of nerve antidotes, antibiotics, antivirals and other medications that are immediately available in all EMS agencies, hospitals and public health departments in the Hampton Roads area.
- The HRMMRS has purchased personnel protective equipment for public safety agency, hospital, public health and medical examiner personnel; decontamination systems for 15 hospitals; radiation detectors for fire/EMS and law enforcement vehicles; 8 Disaster Medical Support Units, 3 Mass Casualty Evacuation and Transport Units, CBRNE identification equipment for public health and HAZMAT teams; communication equipment for hospitals and public health; medication temperature control equipment for responder vehicles; and supplies/equipment for mass prophylaxis dispensing centers.
- The HRMMRS provides funding assistance to the 7 Medical Reserve Corps programs in Hampton Roads.
- The HRMMRS funds ongoing training and exercises in disaster medical response and the operation of the Kent J. Weber Emergency Response Training & Simulation Center.
- The HRMMRS is funded through Department of Homeland Security (DHS) grants and local assessments from the 16 the 16 Hampton Roads jurisdictions and has received almost $10 million in DHS contracts and grants.
For more information about the HRMMRS, contact Bill Ginnow, MS, RPh, Program Manager, at
(757) 963-0632, ext 304 or
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
or visit www.hrmmrs.
HRMMRS 110109
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