Cowley County Emergency Management

Medical Reserve Corps

CERTThe Cowley County MRC is a partnership with the City-Cowley County Health Dept, Cowley County Emergency Management and the Local Emergency Planning Committee.

The Cowley County MRC unit is community- based and functions to locally organize and utilize medical volunteers. When a public health emergency occurs, the need for volunteers will be tremendous. Cowley County MRC will be used to supplement existing emergency services when a disaster is of a magnitude that overwhelms those existing resources. Further, Cowley County MRC volunteers can provide relief for overworked workers in the event of an emergency.

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The Purpose of MRC

  • Recruits health professionals into volunteer service
  • Train and educate members
  • Assist with surge personnel needs
  • Participate in non-emergency essential public health services, such as health education and community outreach
  • Integrates volunteers and first responders for emergency response

Become a Volunteer

As a volunteer, you will gain personal satisfaction, a chance to make a difference in your community, an opportunity to network in your community, and knowledge that you are part of a community- wide emergency response effort.

As a volunteer, your community may need your skills when:

  • Local resources are stretched by an epidemic or infectious disease that requires mass vaccination or medication dispensing
  • Education and preventative measures are needed
  • Other emergencies occur, such as severe weather or other natural disasters
  • Large numbers of people are sick or injured

Join the MRC - Download the Application

Download the application to join the Cowley County MRC and return it to either of the following locations:

City-Cowley County Health Department
320 E 9th Ave, Suite B
Winfield, KS 67156

Cowley County Emergency Management
2701 East 9th
P.O. Box 736
Winfield, KS 67156

Why join today?

In a disaster, everyone wants to help. Lessons learned from 9/11 and severe weather show that many volunteers who show up to help cannot be used. The preregistering and pre-credentialing of volunteers allows the Cowley County MRC to match the skills of the volunteers to the needs of the region. This increases the efficiency of volunteer assignments and reduces the work of processing volunteers during an emergency.