SMAT II, North MS State Medical Assistance Team

May Exercise

2011-06-08T09:23:00.001-07:00

May Exercise went as planned. The team is looking forward to the next training or deployment opportunity.

Date Change

2011-01-05T05:12:00.000-08:00

We will have a meeting in late February or early March to finalize our procedures and get any new SMAT members up to speed.

The big exercise this spring has changed to May 16-19.

April 2011 MSDH Exercise

2010-10-22T04:52:00.000-07:00

2011 Mississippi State Department of Health Exercise

Dates/Times: 20 & 21 April 2011, 0800-1700(5:00pm)

Location: Holly Springs & Rankin County(area TBD) & Megar Evers Aiport Air National Guard side
Agencies Participating: MSDH, VA, MSNG, MSANG, MEDCOM, MED-1, NORAD

Exercise Objectives: Meet the required grant requirements for MSDH. Also meet any required training or requirements for other agencies.

BDLS, ADLS Classes

2010-03-30T14:05:00.000-07:00

From John R.,

The UM Medical Center is offering Basic Disaster Life Support and Advanced Disaster Life Support Classes April 14-16 in Jackson. The course is at no charge.

If you are interested please apply on line at http://disasterplan.umc.edu/training.html .

May 2010 meeting date change

2010-03-30T14:03:00.000-07:00

From John Robinson,

Had to change to the 14th and 15th of May because of a Hospital conflict. We will setup up in the front parking lot of the hospital and plan on training with our new equipment, train the new people on a tent setup and do a Salamander inventory of our supplies.

2010-03-03T07:37:00.000-08:00

From John R. (SMAT Commander)

I am thinking about having the May meeting on the 21st and 22nd . The plan is to train on the various pieces of equipment we have received, use the salamander system in inventory our supplies, make up a want/need list of things we do not have and have our new team members setup a tent.
I would like some feedback on the dates what other things you would like to accomplish. Remember I am talking to the university about having a fall exercise with them.

Upcoming Meeting

2009-12-23T10:57:00.001-08:00

Update from John R. (SMATCommander)

There will be a one day meeting for the NORAC SMAT team Feb. 6th at 8:30 AM at the Oxford Conference Center. We will be taught the use of the Salamander System (patient and staff tracking system) and walk through using it in a table top exercise. I have attached a flow chart of how it might work.

I will provide breakfast and lunch on the 6th.

If you will need a room the night before please let me know.

We will also be planning our exercise in April or May.

Training Dates

2009-10-26T12:40:00.000-07:00

This is an insert from John Robinson's email;

I was unable to schedule something this fall but UMMC is scheduling a major exercise with the MS Air Guard the last week of February and has invited us to participate. It isn’t finalized yet but let me know if you would like to attend.
I am planning on us have a 3 day exercise in April. The plan is to have one day of training in Oxford and then move somewhere, setup and receive, treat, and discharge patients. Stay overnight and pack up the following day. The objective being to work out our patient handling procedures from admissions to discharge. Hopefully we can gain some insight observing UMMC’s exercise.

2009-10-26T12:31:00.001-07:00

An email from John R . has been posted about training dates

2009-10-22T06:30:00.001-07:00

It took a while but we are up & running now, welcome to the SMATII blog.

Welcome!

2009-09-16T06:00:00.001-07:00

Welcome to the North Mississippi SMATII blog!