When disaster strikes, we're "Ready For The Call"

News Updates

The next meeting will be Monday, February 13, 2012 at the Cape Coral Hospital Life Center A at 7:00 pm. This is a very important meeting with a very important guest!!!Hope to see everyone there!

Check out the new website in the Links section. It is from EMAC and takes you to a PDF file named "Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC):

Preparedness Guide & Deployment Tips

for State, Local and Tribal Public Health and Medical Personnel." For your reading pleasure.

Also, 2 new web-links from NDMS.

Please check out the new Deployments page to commemorate our 9-11 team responders. Added is a picture I took of the new Freedom Tower - now known as 1 World Trade Center, built on the site of the World Trade Center (scroll to the bottom of the Deployments page).

Please make sure that you have your Responder e-learn modules completed. Go to the site, log on with your user name and password, and complete each module. We are working towards 100% compliance.

The FL-2 DMAT member of the year for 2010 is Lorraine Milligan. Congratulations Lorraine!!!

Uniform name tapes can be obtained from:

Uniform NameTape Company

5701 S Dale Mabry Hwy

Tampa, FL 33611

813-839-6737

1-800-237-0011

The nametapes are $2.00 each without velcro & $3.50 with velcro.

Please remember that our uniforms are khaki, and that the name must be in BLACK lettering, not brown.

Other Information

Check out the equipment section to see what you might consider taking with you if we are deployed. And be sure your employer is aware of the possibility of deployment before each of the team's on call months.

DMAT pictures

State training pictures

(When you are done looking at each set of pictures, hit your backspace button twice to come back to this page.)

Contact Us

Due to the amount of spam email that is received, please put "DMAT" in the subject line.

Contact the team

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ICS Training Websites

Since 9-11, many healthcare professionals have asked, "What can I do to help my community or other communities?" We are a Federal Disaster Medical Assistance Team (FL-2 DMAT) operating under the Department of Health and Human Services, and a Florida State Medical Response Team, Region 6 (SMRT-6). We provide care to the sick and injured during a disaster. A DMAT/SMRT team is responsible for the triage and stabilization of patients at a disaster site, and provides basic medical services at transfer points and during transportation to definitive care sites. To learn more about DMATs, check out the website and carefully read and understand the information below.

Who we are

Based in Southwest Florida, we are a team of volunteer medical professionals and support staff who provide medical care when activated by either the federal or state government.

We can be deployed in an emergency or disaster to anywhere within the United States or its possessions. Conditions can be very austere at times. DMAT teams have been deployed to the nation of Haiti in 2010, so international deployments are also now a possibility. It would be helpful to have a valid passport.

This is not full or part time employment; this is an intermittent position that will be paid only if you are deployed. There are no benefits. You must be an American citizen and live within 200 miles of the Fort Myers, Florida area. In addition, you cannot be a present federal government employee (such as the military, military reserves, or the VA).

How we work

Team employees are prepared to live and work from tents when necessary, and have learned the art of field living through their drills and exercises. Team employees bring with them a wide diversity of knowledge and abilities in the medical and logistical fields. Teamwork and following the chain of command according to the Incident Command System (ICS) is an important part of each and every deployment.

How you can join us

Unfortunately, due to factors beyond our control, there is presently a hiring freeze in place for our team.

This may change with little or no notice. Certain positions may be opened while other positions remain closed. Please check back from time to time for any changes in the situation.

SW Florida Disaster Medical Team