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    The National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) is a federally coordinated disaster medical system and partnership of the United States Departments of Health...
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    A Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) is a specialized group under the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS), part of the U.S. Department of Health...
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    Disaster medicine is the area of medical specialization serving the dual areas of providing health care to disaster survivors and providing medically...
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  • Health and Human Services National Disaster Medical System. The DMORTs are composed of civilian funeral directors, medical examiners, coroners, pathologists...
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    the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS), Urban Search and Rescue (USAR), Disaster Mortuary Operations Response Team (DMORT), Disaster Medical Assistance...
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    Public health emergency (United States) (category Health disasters in the United States)
    preparedness." the COVID-19 pandemic the 2022 monkeypox outbreak The National Disaster Medical System Federal Partners Memorandum of Agreement defines a public health...
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    professionals through ASPR’s National Disaster Medical System, to augment state and local capabilities during an emergency or disaster. The agency has direct...
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    the National Disaster Medical System, including a review of medical surge capacity. Transfers to the Secretary the functions of the National Disaster Medical...
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    Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) National Communications System (NCS) (Former) National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) Department of State Effective...
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  • "federal medical contingency stations" to state-approved locations near or in the disaster areas. The contingency stations, later renamed Federal Medical Stations...
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  • and Human Services SGEs included medical professionals associated with the National Disaster Medical System, and National Science Foundation and Nuclear...
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    States Department of Health and Human Services and the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) to fund research on...
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    the International Medical Commission on Bhopal, has been denied a visa to visit India. India portal List of industrial disasters System accident Environmental...
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  • General for the appointment of a committee by the Division of Medical Sciences of the National Research Council to examine one phase of the matter. In response...
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  • from hospital computer systems, clinical laboratories, electronic health record systems, medical examiner record-keeping systems, 911 call center computers...
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    The National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI), formerly known as the Armed Forces Medical Intelligence Center, is a component of the United States...
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    countries. The National Disaster Medical System had activated essentially all teams in the country, and pre-staged multiple Disaster Medical Assistance Teams...
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  • governors imposed martial law in their home states. FEMA and the National Disaster Medical System were activated, but were late in mobilizing. Within days of...
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  • Smallpox virus retention debate (category Medical controversies)
    United Kingdom, in 1978. A medical photographer, Janet Parker, contracted the disease at the University of Birmingham Medical School and died on September...
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  • National Disaster Management Authority (India), abbreviated as NDMA, is an apex Body of Government of India, with a mandate to lay down policies for disaster...
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    The United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID; /juːˈsæmrɪd/) is the United States Army's main institution and facility...
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  • Spartanburg Regional mobilized personnel to assist in the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) operations during hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005...
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    variety of ways, ranging from relatively mild allergic reactions to serious medical conditions, including serious injury, as well as serious or permanent disability...
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    S. Army Medical Department. Archived from the original on 5 June 2016. Retrieved 28 May 2016. "USAMRIID Biological Safety". U.S. Army Medical Department...
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    bioterrorism and public health emergencies. It also created the National Disaster Medical System, through which teams of health professionals, such as physicians...
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    and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Since 1984, the CDC and the NIH have jointly authored the Biosafety in Microbiological and Medical Laboratories...
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    through the ASPR and BARDA, prepares and maintains an integrated system of medical countermeasures for both known or unknown, and re-emerging or novel...
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    Dugway Proving Ground (category Government buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Utah)
    chemical weapon defense systems in a secure and isolated environment. DPG also serves as a facility for US Army Reserve and US National Guard maneuver training...
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    key role in the National Response Plan as the Sacramento-region Federal Coordinating Center for the National Disaster Medical System. As one of the USAF...
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    secretary of health and human services activates the National Disaster Medical System. During disasters and health emergencies, requests for VA assistance...
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