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Sussex County Medical Reserve Corps Unit Profile
| Community/Jurisdiction Served: |
New Jersey -
Sussex County
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| Sponsoring Organization: |
Sussex County Division of Health
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| Date Established: |
3/16/2005
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| Unit Information: |
One Spring Street, 2nd Floor
Sussex County Administrative Center
Newton, NJ 07860
http://www.sussex.nj.us/health
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| Contact Information: |
Julia Gurriell
One Spring Street
Newton, NJ 07860
Phone: (973) 579-9488 ext.1243
Cell: 973-332-4297
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| Profile: |
Quite a few of our RNs are EMTs/Paramedics.
We have a separate profile of Mental Health Professionals who can be activated through our local Center for Mental Health.
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| Volunteer Count: |
| Physicians |
8 |
| Physician Assistants |
1 |
| Nurse Practitioners |
0 |
| Nurses |
112 |
| Pharmacists |
7 |
| Dentists |
1 |
| Veterinarians |
1 |
| Mental Health Professionals |
20 |
| EMS Professionals |
5 |
| Respiratory Therapists |
1 |
| Other Public Health/Medical |
6 |
| Non-Public Health/Medical |
56 |
| Total |
218 |
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| Recent Activities: |
1/17/2009
Communicable Disease Investigator Training. Participants will discuss communicable disease investigations from the local to the New Jersey state level. Interested MRC volunteers will be offered future training opportunities on the New Jersey Communicable Disease Reporting Surveillance System.
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1/13/2009
Pandemic Flu Preparedness for the MRC Volunteer.
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11/13/2008
Point of Distribution (POD) Exercise involving a number of agencies including the MRC. A full scale POD was set-up and an exercise was conducted.
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10/15/2008
Introductory training focussing on Point of Dispensing Sites (PODS). Participants learn the basic concepts of POD operations and volunteer positions working in a POD
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9/4/2008
Mass call down exercise involving Public Health Department employees calling volunteers for estimated response times to open POD within Sussex County. Out of 217 volunteers called, 97 indicated they could respond.
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Last Updated on 2/8/2009
