June 16-19 2014 Training Excercise

We are in the planning stages of conducting an exercise 16-19 June 2014 in Oxford. The exercise with be in conjunction with BMH-NM, BMH-Desoto, and BMH-Union County (we hope) and will follow the basic scenario of patients from BMH-NM being evacuated to MED2 and then further evacuated to other facilities. The city of Oxford and Lafayette County will also play by providing support to the hospital for the evacuation and transportation.


Attached is the revised training schedule for the June Exercise. The major change is a class on Incident Command. Only those who volunteer for the following command positions need to attend although everyone is welcome.


Public Information Officer, Safety Officer, Liaison Officer, Operations Chief, Planning Chief, Logistics Chief, Finance/ Admin. Chief, Medical Branch Director, Facilities Director

One of the objectives of this exercise is to learn how to operate using the Incident Command System (ICS). Rooms for the night of the 16th are available.

PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU ARE ATTENDING THE EXERCISE IN WHOLE OF IN PART IF YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY DONE SO. ALSO LET ME KNOW IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO VOLUNTEER FOR THE ADDITIONAL TRAINING. WE REALLY NEED MORE THAN ONE PERSON FOR EACH POSITION.

I will be blocking off rooms for the nights of 17 and 18 June, so I need to know who will be needing a room (MED2 with pay for them). If you cannot attend all three days, please let me know what days you can participate.

I hope to see you at the exercise; I think you will find it interesting.

I REALLY NEED AS MUCH PARTICIPATION AS POSSIBLE!

Louisville Disaster Event Pic's

Louisville, Mississippi Disaster Event Deployment

Med1 has requested ten MED2 personnel to go to Louisville tomorrow to setup tents for a shelter.  The shifts are 12 hours long and will be very rewarding for you and the community. Lunch will be served from American Red Cross. The shift starts 5/5/14 at 8:30am.

SMRS Expo February 17-21, 2014

State Medical Response System (SMRS) Expo

Free Emergency Preparedness Training! February 17-21, 2014 Hospital, Pre-Hospital, and Emergency Management personnel Opportunities for training in; Hospital Preparedness Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Pediatrics and/or Emergency Trauma (ADLS) Advanced Disaster Life Support And More! Where: Landers Center 4560 Venture Drive Southaven, MS 8:00am-4:30pm For more information visit www.mhanet.org and click “Hospital Preparedness”

Lastest Updates

Based on information received from the National Weather Service this morning the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) has decided to take a "stand down with a heightened awareness stance" in regards to Invest 92L. This means although the state of Mississippi is not expected to take a direct hit everyone should closely monitor the storm for any changes. The coastal areas of the state may be impacted with increased rainfall over the next few days so flooding is a possibility and should be monitored locally. Please take this time to prepare your family (pets included) for any disaster that may happen such as tornadoes, flooding, winter storms, earthquakes, etc. Also begin discussing with your family about your possible deployment with the State Medical Response System should the need arise. Thank you for your continued interest in the State Medical Response System!

THe May Exercise 2012

The May exercise was a success!

Several groups attended and gained a great deal of information and techniques from other teams.  Teams worked together to build tents, electrical processes, gather information about command trailers, IT technology, and patient bed assemblies. Tuesday was completed with the facility being overtaken by the medical tents and other medical equipment. Wednesday started at 7:00 with patient flow processes and continued through the hot day until 17:00. Thursday was the ending day for patient flow followed by disassembly of tents and other medical equipment. Friday completed the exercise with a Hot Wash meeting and recovery.

Can’t wait till the next event!

Exercise for May 2012

“Heads Up” the State of Mississippi is planning on a 4 day exercise 22-26 May at the Grenada airport. I am attending a meeting in a couple of weeks about the exercise and will let you know more details. 

May Exercise

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

Date Change

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Welcome!

Welcome to the North Mississippi SMATII blog!