The Metropolitan Medical Response System (MMRS) is a grant program under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The MMRS directs communities to focus a strong medical response in the event of a terrorist attack or mass casualty incident. The Sedgwick County Health Department is the oversight agency for the MMRS program.
MMRS is an operational system at the local level to respond to a terrorist incident and other public health emergencies that create mass casualties or casualties requiring unique care capabilities
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This system enables a Metropolitan Area to manage the event until State or Federal response resources are mobilized
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MMRS is a locally developed, owned, and operated mass casualty response system
News and Information
MMRS assists in the creation of Point of Dispensing Training Videos
The South Central Kansas MMRS, in conjunction with various organizations, have assisted in the creation of position-specific just-in-time training videos.
South Central Kansas Regional Phonebook Project
The Metropolitan Medical Response System has completed the first edition of the South Central Kansas Incident Response Phonebook. The phonebook contains contact information from a variety of agencies representing the 19 county region in the following areas:
- Animal Control
- Behavioral Health
- CERT (Community Emergency Response Team)
- Emergency Management
- EMS
- Fire Departments
- GIS (Geographic Information Services)
- Health Departments
- Hospitals
- Law Enforcement
- Local Government
- MRC (Medical Reserve Corps)
- Public Safety
- Public Works
- Unified School Districts
- Volunteer Organizations
- State and Federal Information
The phonebook will be used as a resource during an incident in which additional assistance is needed. If you are listed in the phonebook but need to update your information for future use, please complete the Regional Phonebook Information Request Form, noting what needs to be changed. In addition, if your agency was not included and you would like to be in future editions, please complete a request form as well.
Neighborhood
Distribution Centers
A public health emergency is an event that puts the health of a community at
risk. This includes natural disasters (e.g. flood), an accident (e.g. chemical
spill), a disease outbreak (e.g. H1N1), or an act of terrorism.
If a public health emergency occurs in Sedgwick County in which medication needs
to be dispensed, those affected will be instructed to go to a
Neighborhood
Distribution Center (NDC); this will be done through local media and other
messaging outlets. A NDC is a community building, like a school or a church,
which is used to distribute medication to the public.
Mission
To assure high levels of community preparedness to a
weapons of mass destruction event. The focus of
the contract is improved "medical" response systems.
The intent is decreased morbidity and mortality and
increase survivability of residents, communities, and
the environment. Additionally, the resulting
systems and processes will be of benefit for natural
occurring disasters and public health emergencies.
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