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Medical Reserve Corps Strategic Plan
The goal of this regionalization/strategic planning process is for all local MRC unit members to be part of a DEMHS Regional MRC Response Team but maintain their local unit names. The Regional MRC concept in Connecticut is to provide competent and trained volunteers for use at large-scale emergencies and events, field treatment sites, and off site surge capacity for local hospitals that affect communities, DEMHS regions and/or the State. The concept of regionalization of MRCs will enhance each region's collective capacity to share resources and to respond to public health threats and emergencies.

Pandemic All-Hazards Preparedness Act of 2006
On December 19, 2006, President Bush signed S.3678, the “Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act” into law (Public Law No. 109-417). This is a significant piece of legislation because the Act authorizes appropriations to:

• Improve bioterrorism and other public health emergency planning and preparedness activities
• Help hospitals improve surge capacity
• Codifies, or formally establishes under federal law, the Medical Reserve Corps

You may read the entire text of S.3678 Act which can be found at http://thomas.loc.gov.

RESOURCE LINKS

The Preparedness Report

The Preparedness Report is a weekly digest of informational links that contain current news clips, press releases and new information from a variety of sources on the subject of emergency preparedness and disaster response. To subscribe or unsubscribe to this report, please e-mail center@ynhh.org with your contact information. Any questions, comments or suggestions regarding the reports should be faxed to (203) 688-4618 or sent via e-mail to center@ynhh.org .

The Preparedness Reports are presented in a pdf format. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader installed in order to read the file.

The National Medical Reserve Corps
The Medical Reserve Corps resulted from President Bush's call to action in his January 2002 State of the Union address.

The Connecticut Department of Public Health
This site features information about Connecticut ’s programs and services, public health code, publications, agency contacts, license and renewal applications and information about the public health laboratory.

U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
A news source for information on medical topics and prevention.

Pandemicflu.gov
One-stop access to U.S. Government avian and pandemic flu information. Managed by the Department of Health and Human Services.

World Health Organization (WHO)
This site focuses on international health situations.