National Center for Medical Readiness
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The National Center for Medical Readiness (NCMR) provides medically oriented education, training, product testing, and research opportunities for medical, public health, public safety, and civilian and military personnel at its 52-acre Tactical Laboratory, Calamityville, located in Fairborn, Ohio. NCMR is a division of the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine Department of Emergency Medicine.
, to provide training opportunities for medical, public health
, public safety
, and civilian and military disaster response persons who have the responsibility to be decision makers. It is the training facility associated with the National Center for Medical Readiness. The Calamityville site was donated by Cemex
a cement producing company.
The different ares of Calamityville focus on preparing medical responders (ER Doctors
and nurses), and medical-based decision makers (administrators, managers) to react in a responsible and cost effective way to the increased patient volume, and changes in the normal infrastructure which come out of most mass casualty
/disaster events. The training grounds will include a mock neighborhood with props for a flood, plane crash and building collapse simulations. A rail line may one day cut through the back of the facility to provide a grounds for simulations of various disasters, such as de-railed rail cars, and a body of water with a mock plane for simulating water and land evacuations.
This facility attempts to bridge the gap between medical readiness and disaster response through the making and deployment of training programs that offer solutions to dynamic emergency rescue challenges including:
Calamityville
Calamityville is a training and research facility, located in Fairborn, OhioFairborn, Ohio
Fairborn is a city in Greene County, Ohio, United States, near Dayton and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The population was 32,352 at the 2010 census...
, to provide training opportunities for medical, public health
Public health
Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals" . It is concerned with threats to health based on population health...
, public safety
Public Safety
Public safety involves the prevention of and protection from events that could endanger the safety of the general public from significant danger, injury/harm, or damage, such as crimes or disasters .-See also:* By nation...
, and civilian and military disaster response persons who have the responsibility to be decision makers. It is the training facility associated with the National Center for Medical Readiness. The Calamityville site was donated by Cemex
Cemex
CEMEX is the world's largest building materials supplier and third largest cement producer. Founded in Mexico in 1906, the company is based in Monterrey, Mexico...
a cement producing company.
The different ares of Calamityville focus on preparing medical responders (ER Doctors
Physician
A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...
and nurses), and medical-based decision makers (administrators, managers) to react in a responsible and cost effective way to the increased patient volume, and changes in the normal infrastructure which come out of most mass casualty
Mass casualty events
A mass casualty event is defined as a situation that stresses the first responders as well the healthcare system in general. There are many different kinds of MCEs...
/disaster events. The training grounds will include a mock neighborhood with props for a flood, plane crash and building collapse simulations. A rail line may one day cut through the back of the facility to provide a grounds for simulations of various disasters, such as de-railed rail cars, and a body of water with a mock plane for simulating water and land evacuations.
This facility attempts to bridge the gap between medical readiness and disaster response through the making and deployment of training programs that offer solutions to dynamic emergency rescue challenges including:
- Gaining access to trapped and missing persons;
- Providing a high level of medical care in the most adverse of environments;
- EvacuatingEmergency evacuationEmergency evacuation is the immediate and rapid movement of people away from the threat or actual occurrence of a hazard. Examples range from the small scale evacuation of a building due to a bomb threat or fire to the large scale evacuation of a district because of a flood, bombardment or...
victims in the safest and most effective way possible, to receive the utmost care and recovery.