Medical
Mobilizers
Medical Disaster Relief
"Mobilizing Medical Professionals"
Director: Ron Lively
Office: 615-591-6969 Cell:
615-238-4035
Resources / Opportunities
Local Franklin, TN Developments:
See Regional / National Resources / Opportunities below.
Friday,
9/16 (My wive's birthday - Happy
Birthday, Penny)
Today is the National Day of Prayer for the evacuees and others affected or involved with this national disaster.
Locally, the Franklin Lasko Red Cross Shelter has been open now for a week. The extra 270 evacuees did not arrive. So we have about 125 evacuees but it sounds like we may still get more yet from other shelters. This one was established to handle 500. Services are being provided. Medical Services is operating well. Sharon Dale, wife of music artist Steve Dale, is a licensed counselor who works in private practice and as a counselor at Christ Community Church. We asked Sharon to head up the Mental Healthy Services. She has gotten this organized well building a large list of volunteer counselors who will participate in an orientation meeting on Saturday at 1 pm. Pray that this very important service will be functioning well soon. .
Volunteer physicians are needed for ongoing coverage. Please send in the form below.
Volunteer mental health counselors are needed.
We are still assisting Carla Witt with Williamson Medical Center with staffing.
Thanks,
Ron
NEW: Medical Disaster Relief Database Response Form (click on this link)
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Medical
Disaster Relief GOAL:
Create a master Medical
Disaster Relief Database This
is being done to be of value for this
disaster relief work and any possible
future disasters.
This is being done in conjunction
with the local hospital, clinics,
churches and other related organizations
to help all of the organizations in need
of medical volunteers and especially the
local work of the American Red Cross as
they seek to provide the necessary
medical care of the evacuees.
Our sense is that this will be
valuable information since this is a long
term project after the initial interest
diminishes.
We aim to appropriately share this
data as needed so that there is an
effective centralized mobilization
process.
We appreciate your help to get
this database developed.
Volunteer
Licensed Medical Professionals Needed
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UPDATES:
Update
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UPDATE: The old CPS Corp. building at 1715 Columbia Ave. in Franklin is scheduled to be open today (9/9) and ready to receive evacuees. The Williamson County American Red Cross will now do the staffing. Please do submit your willingness to volunteer to us as well in order to help develop the Medical Disaster Relief Database. I am getting in a steady flow of requests, inquiries and suggestions.
Nurses
wishing to volunteer anywhere must go for
training. The Williamson County
chapter of American Red Cross has scheduled
several Disaster Shelter Training Sessions for
nurses. (We don't think physicians have to
have this training).
WHEN: 10 am - noon Sat. and 6-7:30 pm on
Monday
WHERE: Williamson County Red Cross
Headquarters at 129 West Fowlkes St., Ste
100
Telephone: 615-790-5785
CHURCH
LEADERS:
In downtown Franklin,
Williamson Medical Center is inviting all churches
to a meeting at 1 pm on Friday, 9/9 to discuss how
to best meet the physical, emotional, relational
and spiritual needs of the evacuees.
This will be help at St. Paul's Episcopal Church.
The Franklin Humanitarian Task Force is being organized. Pray as God gives our leaders wisdom. Pray especially for our city mayor, Tom Miller. Information will be on the web soon at www.franklin-tn.gov
Contact number for Local Needs is 615-550-6624 All inquiries, comments, requests, offers to help, etc. can be expressed at this central number. You will be albe to do this on the city's web site soon.
Williamson Medical Center and ProjectCure.org is setting up a 4 room medical clinic at the newly developed American Red Cross Shelter at the old CPS factory in Franklin at 1715 Columbia Ave heading south from Franklin. We will be developing a staffing schedule so volunteers are needed. The tentative plan at this time is to offer a 24/7 staffing schedule.
TO
VOLUNTEER -
1. Email Ron Lively at ron@medicalmobilizers.org
and offer your name, contact information, degrees,
skills and some times when you could
volunteer.
2. Call the FHTF hotline at 550-6624 and leave a message. That will get passed on to us for our Medical Disaster Relief database.
City
Prepares for Hurricane Katrina Refugees
The City of Franklin is working closely with the
Franklin Chapter of the American Red Cross and the
Williamson County Emergency Management Agency in
monitoring the situation brought on by Hurricane
Katrina. Some reports have as many as 18,000
refugees coming to Tennessee. “We’ve organized
an ad hoc committee led by Alderman Tom Feuerborn
and comprised of personnel from each of our
departments,” commented Mayor Tom Miller. “With
Governor Bredesen’s announcement that as many as
18,000 refugees could be coming to the State of
Tennessee, we want to be prepared to ensure the
health and safety of any displaced person as well
as the health and safety of our citizens.” The
American Red Cross is currently looking for
volunteers to staff the office and the local
shelters. Citizens wanting to donate funds
immediately to help the victims of Hurricane
Katrina should contact the American Red Cross at
(615) 790-5785 or if you have clothing and food
items to donate, call Graceworks Ministries at
(615) 794-9055. Web site for Graceworks is www.graceworksministries.net.
They are located at 104 Southeast Parkway,
Suite 100, Franklin, TN 37064.
A Medical Disaster Relief Team is being developed based at Christ Community Church (PCA) in Franklin, TN.
Church leaders are encouraged to attend a 1 pm informational meeting at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in downtown Franklin on Friday, Sept. 9th.
Recommendations - Consider checking with the following:
1.
Mercy Children's Clinic in Franklin -
www.mercychildrensclinic.org/
(615) 790-0567 -
112 9th Ave S Franklin, TN 37064
2.
Faith Family Medical Clinic in Nashville - www.faithmedical.org
615-341-0808
326 21st Avenue North Nashville, TN
37203
Volunteer medical professionals are needed.
Only patients without insurance. ID
required. Visit is $10.
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Health Care Practitioners, This e-mail is to inform you of the efforts being made by the Tennessee Department of Health, Bureau of Health Licensure and Regulation to assist with the emergency management of personnel and medical supply type resources in We have expedited the process for licensure of those Health care practitioners who want to volunteer their services and/or who want to donate medical supplies and sample pharmaceuticals may contact the Department at 1-800-778-4123 or 615-532-3202. We are maintaining a list of health care practitioners who are volunteering their services. A volunteer form is also available on our website. All forms can be mailed to: Health Related Boards, 1st Floor, Cordell Hull Building, 425 5th Ave. N., Nashville, TN 37247, ATTN: Linda Hudgins; e-mailed to Linda.hudgins@state.tn.us; or faxed to 615-253-1535. For donation of medical supplies and sample pharmaceuticals, please do the following: • Place like supplies in a package, e.g. paper bag, box, etc., and list the contents • Contact the Department for pick-up services (8:00 am to 5:30 pm): • In the • In the • In the • In the Non-medical Volunteers Volunteers with no healthcare background can find information on volunteering at http://www.USAFreedomCorps.gov/ or by calling 1-877-USA-CORPS (1-877-872-2677). Grace and peace, Fred L. ______________________________________________________________________ ATTENTION: Effective October 1st my BMDF e-mail address will become Fred Lewis Loper, MD Executive Director, Baptist Medical Dental Fellowship 405-606-7027 or 405-606-7028 www.bmdf.org |
Regional / National Resources / Opportunities:
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Katrina Update |
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| VOICE OF CALVERY MINISTRIES, JACKSON MISSISSIPPI | |
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One of the main emergency needs in those areas of MS hardest hit by hurricane Katrina is for health care. Voice of Calvary Family Health Center (VOCFHC) has been blessed by God to have the use of a mobile medical unit. In partnership with World Vision, the Rotary Clubs of Modesto, CA and Hattiesburg, MS, and the Jackson Medical Mall they are getting ready to send the unit to the coastal areas of Mississippi. VOCFHC will have use of this unit as long as needed during the relief efforts in Mississippi. They especially need volunteer medical personnel who would like to help them in the medical outreach efforts along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. If you would like to volunteer, please give them a call at 601-353-1635 or visit their website at www.vocm.org. |
Check out opportunity in BAY
ST. LOUIS, MS
By Joshua Cogswell
jcogswell@clarionledger.com
Brian Albert Broom/The Clarion-Ledger
With more than 2,200 visits in the last two weeks,
the North Carolina State Medical Assistance Team's
Mobile Emergency Department in Bay St. Louis has
seen everything from heart attacks to cuts. The
mobile hospital, funded by a $1.5 million grant,
is the first of its kind in the country.
WAVELAND — When Peg Campos' 15-year-old son,
Bradley, stepped on a nail rummaging through the
remains of their decimated weekend house in Bay
St. Louis Saturday morning, she rushed him to the
nearest emergency room: a tent city in the K-Mart
parking lot.
"We wanted to take care of it
immediately," Campos said. "There's so
much crap in that water, you don't want to mess
with it."
Campos was treated at the North Carolina State
Medical Assistance Team's Mobile Emergency
Department (MED-1). Spread out over about six
acres, with a staff of about 100 doctors, nurses,
paramedics, pharmacists and support workers, the
mobile hospital is treating patients that would
normally get care at the Hancock Medical Center in
Bay St. Louis, just a couple miles east of
Waveland on U.S. 90.
The medical center, severely flooded in the storm,
is the only hospital on the Mississippi Gulf Coast
that's still not operating.
Registered nurse Melinda Groves entertains Deion
Toles, 3, of Gulfport while his mother, Patricia
Toles, gets an X-ray at the North Carolina State
Medical Assistance Team's facility.
The National Guard is also providing emergency
care at a field hospital in the medical center's
parking lot.
The North Carolina-based MED-1 unit has treated
more than 2,200 patients since it opened Sept. 4.
All of the unit's equipment came down in two
53-foot trailers. One of the trailers, which
expands and contracts based on need, houses the
emergency room. Those who have less serious
ailments are treated in two giant tents on either
side.
Alan Taylor, the North Carolina team's public
information officer, said the mobile hospital is
the first of its kind in the country. It's made
possible by a $1.5 million grant from the
Department of Homeland Security.
This is the first time the unit has been deployed
since it was finished about a year ago. The
ventilators the unit uses, originally designed for
the Israeli army, have a special valve that allows
ventilation for people exposed to chemical or
biological weapons. The digital X-ray machines can
be linked by satellite to doctors in North
Carolina for consultations.
A sign in Bay St. Louis' K-Mart parking lot points
the way to services. The tent city located there
offers the nearest medical care in the area.
Dr. Wes Wallace, a specialist in emergency
medicine at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, was filling out charts for his
patients Saturday. An expert in wilderness
medicine and medicine in developing countries,
Wallace runs a clinic in Panama. He said the
quality of the facility in Waveland eclipses
anything he's seen.
"This is an incomparable facility,"
Wallace said. "I'm pleased they were able to
marry these facilities with the extent of care for
extremely sick and severely injured people."
http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050918/NEWS0110/509180376
NOTE: The governor of Louisiana issued an executive order authorizing out-of-state volunteer physicians to assist in the recovery effort.
Organizations to consider:
1. New MNA Hurricane Relief Web Site - www.pcarelief.com
2.
Friend Ships
3. CMDA
4. Samaritans Purse
5. ALERT medics team
6. Baptist Medical Dental Fellowship
7. Peculiar People from Franklin, TN
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New
MNA Hurricane Relief Web Site To
reach the housing office, you can e-mail:
hurricanerelief@woodruffroad.com,
or call |
FRIEND SHIPS (www.friendships.org)
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CHRISTIAN MEDICAL & DENTAL ASSOCIATIONS (www.cmda.org):
Go to http://www.cmdahome.org/index.cgi?CONTEXT=art&art=3080
• Health and Human Services: https://volunteer.ccrf.hhs.gov/
• Red Cross: (571) 226-8267.
• JCNationwide: Recruiting physicians to
fulfill contract with US government to provide
medical care in disaster area. 800-272-2707 or connect@jcnationwide.com
• Baptist Medical Dental Fellowship:
Jennifer Donihoo
Executive Assistant
BAPTIST MEDICAL DENTAL FELLOWSHIP
405.606.7027
• University of Texas: https://secure1.mhhs.org/volunteer/register.asp
• Assistance at the Astrodome: Physicians
can call 713-798-2091. Mid-level practitioners can
call 832-667-3152, 3153 or 3154 to get on the
volunteer staffing list.
Samaritans Purse - www.samaritanspurse.org
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The
International ALERT Academy |
• Baptist Medical Dental Fellowship: Contact Jessie Flores at BCFS, 210-283-5123
Dear
BMDF Member:
We received the following update from Crosslink
International:
CrossLink
is assisting in a number of ways. In fact,
we are pulling together some medicines for Dewey
Dunn as I write this. We are also working
through our new
God
bless.
Linda
Cook
Executive Director
CrossLink International
phone: 703-534-5465
fax: 703-536-8349
www.crosslinkinternational.net
In
Him,
Jennifer
Donihoo
Executive Assistant
Baptist Medical Dental Fellowship
Phone: 405.606.7027 Fax:
405.609.3203
BMDF
Members,
We
need physicians willing to serve as Medical
Director(s) for general medical care for
evacuees in
Executive Director
Baptist Medical Dental Fellowship
Phone: 405.606.7027 Fax:
405.609.3203
www.bmdf.org
new e-mail address:
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DEAR
BMDF MEMBERS: THE
MOST IMPORTANT NEWS IS THE CONTACTS MADE
REGARDING HURRICANE DISASTER
RELIEF. PLEASE PRAY AS YOU READ
THESE NEWS ITEMS. IF YOU HAVE
REPORTS---- PLEASE SEND ME INFORMATION
AND I WILL SEND OUT ANOTHER MESSAGE THIS
MONTH. 1.
Our son, Dr. John Dunn, is in 2.
Dr. David Stockton from 3.
Nurse Becky Brown from 4.
Today, my wife, Bobbie, spoke to the
Barnhills who lived in 5.
Tonight Herb Batt, pharmacist from 6.
Dr. Teresa Fowler, 7.
Dr. Lee Thomas and 7 other medical
personnel are leaving tomorrow morning
for 8.
Dr. Fred Ingram with the help of
pharmacist Edwin Williams in 9.
Dr. Mary Clawson reports she has been
working in her area of YOU
RECEIVED THE REPORT FROM FRED LOPER AND I
AM SURE THAT MANY OF OUR FELLOWSHIP ARE
SERVING. MANY ARE SEEING THE
OUTPOURING OF CHRISTIAN LOVE IN ACTION
WHICH IS A WONDERFUL TESTIMONY IN THIS
COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD. IN
CHRISTIAN LOVE, |
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BMDF Members, We have all been deeply affected by the destruction and dislocation in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. We have BMDF members without electricity in their own homes and with tree limbs perforating their roofs. We have BMDF members busily caring for the acute medical needs of people who were injured in the disaster. We have BMDF members who are organizing strategies for long term healthcare of those displaced to At the national office we are hearing from a wide variety of people who want to volunteer their time and abilities or who are asking for help from our members. As we discover opportunities for volunteer service, we will send them to you by e-mail. Some things that we have already discovered about this disaster situation include: 1) There will be needs and opportunities for volunteer assistance for months and even years to come. The need will be likely to increase as time goes along since the initial outpouring of money and volunteers will subside over the next few months. 2) Southern Baptists are already very effectively and creatively involved in the relief effort. The Disaster Relief Ministries of our Southern Baptist state conventions are a highly experienced and well trained force. BMDF will be collaboratively working through these ministries to provide care. If you are looking for a volunteer opportunity, please contact your state convention's Disaster Relief Ministry as a first option to see what opportunities exist for you! 3) There are many important priorities in this disaster. Be sure to pause to pray often. Gifts of funds are needed both now and long term. Many organizations are accepting financial gifts for Hurricane Katrina relief. Please pick your favorite and give to them as the Lord leads you. 4) Many new and more well defined volunteer opportunities for you to volunteer are developing at this very minute. Please be patient as these things are set up. For example, 3000 evacuees are on their way to Grace
and peace, Fred L. |
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Peculiar
People Active in Hurricane Relief Effort Peculiar People, the theatre ministry founded by PCA members Charlie and Ruth Jones, is active in Hurricane relief efforts. They have been collaborating in efforts of accepting financial and goods donations with the Nashville Presbytery. Peculiar People is also working to coordinate tours to Red Cross shelters around the country in order to perform for those refugees being housed in these locations. If anyone has contacts to shelters in your area and would like to have them come and perform, please contact their Vice-President, Curtis Stoneberger at curtis@peculiarpeople.com. For more information, visit: www.peculiarpeople.com/relief. |
