NDMS Response Stories from the Field

Healthcare professionals from the National Disaster Medical System take action when natural or manmade disasters and other public health emergencies impact a community’s health care system.

NDMS responders have answered the call to protect the health and safety of Americans in disaster situations from hurricanes to wildfires, and, during the COVID-19 pandemic, from administering COVID-19 tests, vaccines, and therapeutics to addressing patient surges that overwhelm local, state, tribal, and territorial health care facilities.

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With Expertise Onsite, Rural Hospital Treats More Patients, Reduces Transfers & Keeps Patients in Their Community

Soon after Hurricane Idalia swept through north-central Florida, a team of health care providers from the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) walked into the emergency department at Doctor’s Memorial Hospital in Perry, Florida.

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