U S Department of Health and Human Services


NATIONAL DISASTER MEDICAL SYSTEM
MICHIGAN -1 DMAT












 

DMAT OVERVIEW

 

 

A Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) is a group of medical and support personnel

designed to provide emergency medical care during national security and presidentially declared disaster events.

DMATs deploy to disaster sites with adequate supplies and equipment to initially support themselves initially for a period of 72 hours while providing medical care at a fixed or temporary medical locations.  Teams may provide primary health care and/or augment overloaded local health care staff.   DMATs are designed to be a rapid-response element to supplement local medical care until other Federal or contract resources can be mobilized, or the situation is resolved. Each DMAT deployable unit consists of approximately 35 individuals; however, teams may consist of more than three times this number to provide redundancy for each job role.  This insures that an adequate number of personnel are available at the time of deployment.  The team is composed of medical professionals and support staff organized, trained, and prepared to activate as a unit.

 MI-1 DMAT  is a Type One team.  DMATs are categorized according in four readiness levels:

Type One:

DMATs that are fully deployable within 8 hours of notification and are self-sufficient for 72 hours.  They are deployed with standardized equipment and supply sets to treat up to 250 patients per day.
  

Type Two:

DMATs that lack enough equipment to make them self-sufficient but are able to deploy and replace a Level One team utilizing  and supplementing their equipment which is left on site.
  

Type Three:

DMATs that have local response capability only.
  

Type Four: 

DMATs with a Memorandum of Understanding executed in some stage of development but have no response capability.

 

For comments, questions or problems, please email teamleader@mi1dmat.org