Texas Medical RangersTexas Medical Rangers

Mission and Functional Mission and Functional ResponsibilitiesResponsibilities

MissionMission

The TXSG-MRC provides licensed The TXSG-MRC provides licensed public health support volunteers and public health support volunteers and technical support expertise in technical support expertise in response to large scale disasters, response to large scale disasters, supplementing public health supplementing public health authorities of the Texas Department authorities of the Texas Department of State Health Services. of State Health Services.

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A. Provide life-preserving A. Provide life-preserving stabilization, emergency health stabilization, emergency health care counseling, and emergency care counseling, and emergency prophylaxis (e.g. inoculations, prophylaxis (e.g. inoculations, distribution of oral medications or distribution of oral medications or topical ointments) for persons topical ointments) for persons whose illnesses or injuries are a whose illnesses or injuries are a result of mass disasters;result of mass disasters;

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B. Provide health care expertise and B. Provide health care expertise and technical assistance to TDH at their technical assistance to TDH at their designated alternate treatment facilities designated alternate treatment facilities (i.e. voluntarily committed acute care beds (i.e. voluntarily committed acute care beds at non-hospital sites controlled by the at non-hospital sites controlled by the National Disaster Medical System) with National Disaster Medical System) with patient reception, patient staging, limited patient reception, patient staging, limited emergency care (i.e. triage and emergency emergency care (i.e. triage and emergency injury treatment), patient evacuation injury treatment), patient evacuation preparation, and preliminary casualty preparation, and preliminary casualty clearing clearing

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C. Provide technical assistance C. Provide technical assistance (leadership and control) for (leadership and control) for identifying, organizing, validating identifying, organizing, validating credentials, caring for medical and credentials, caring for medical and health support volunteers on shift, health support volunteers on shift, scheduling/communicating shift scheduling/communicating shift assignments, and facilitating work assignments, and facilitating work force protection/guarantees for TXSG-force protection/guarantees for TXSG-MRC volunteers and augmentees;MRC volunteers and augmentees;

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D. Provide technical assistance D. Provide technical assistance (leadership and control) to record, (leadership and control) to record, maintain and recall health database maintain and recall health database information about patients information about patients processed and treatments provided processed and treatments provided by TXSG-MRC volunteers and by TXSG-MRC volunteers and augmentees.augmentees.

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E. Contributes to TDH’s surveillance E. Contributes to TDH’s surveillance systems, supplement monitoring of systems, supplement monitoring of the general population and special the general population and special high-risk population segments, high-risk population segments, assist in monitoring injury, disease assist in monitoring injury, disease outbreak patterns, and provide outbreak patterns, and provide expert advice about communicable expert advice about communicable disease and injury control measures disease and injury control measures and precautions.and precautions.

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F. Provide staff assistance F. Provide staff assistance experienced in public information experienced in public information duties to assist the impacted duties to assist the impacted regional and State TDH offices in regional and State TDH offices in performing Health and Medical performing Health and Medical Services public information Services public information activities. activities.

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