North Carolina Mobile Disaster Hospital
DRAFT VERSION (for review only)
The State Medical Response System Mobile Disaster Hospital began in 2005 as a Type-1 Federal Medical Contingency Station (FCMS) project of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security initiative. With input from experts drawn from Level 1 Trauma Centers, Department of Defense Medical Corps, National Disaster Medical System, and various specialties, prototype development concentrated on tow transportable field hospital caches - a fixed and portable. The final project concept was evolved to become one expandable field hospital. In 2006, the project came to halt due to lack of funding. By 2008, FEMA determined that the FMCS project was no longer in thei scope of missions. Then, in 2009, FEMA trasferred the FCMS to FEMA Region IV to be completed, maintained, and housed in North Carolina, but be available for medical response nationwide via the Emergency Management Assistance Compact. The FMCS "field hospital" is now referred to as the North Carolina Mobile Disaster Hospital.
Purpose: The Mobile Disaster Hospital (MDH) Operations Plan provides hospital care capability during an emergency response by augmenting the local or community health care system with additional or replacement hospital facility.