Virginia MRC units are teams of local volunteer medical, public health professionals, and community members who volunteer to contribute their skills, expertise, and time to support ongoing public health initiatives and public health emergencies in localities across Virginia.
MRC units throughout the state actively improve and protect their community’s public health by participating in:
Public health prevention education and health screenings
Efforts to provide medical services to low-income and at-risk populations
The public health response to communicable disease outbreaks
Community emergency preparedness education and outreach activities
Volunteer emergency preparedness training and exercises
The response to local, state, and national terrorism attacks and
disasters by supporting medical services, emergency shelters, mental health
outreach, dispensing sites for mass dosing of medications and vaccinations,
disease investigations and environmental health efforts for food and human
safety.
