The federal government assists
Florida to accomplish a plan to prepare, respond, recover and mitigate
all agencies and organizations from all hazards, emergencies or disasters
events.
The Emergency Support Function
Eight is a plan that oversees the agencies and organizations that carry out
health or medical services for emergency management. Florida's division of
emergency medical operations is a collaborative effort of four entities,
Rose Lee's Resources:
Rich Rasmussen,
Florida Hospital Association,
VP Communications explained how DMAT or Disaster Medical Assistant Teams
are teams that could be Florida-based or funded by the state of Florida or
federal based teams that are kind of like a M*A*S*H unit
For more information:
Office of Public Health Preparedness · Office of Emergency Operations
.
Emergency Medical Services, the Office of Trauma, the
Office of Public Health.
4025 Esplanade Way
Tallahassee , FL
Phone: 850 -245-4128
Fax: 850 - 245-4258-
www.doh.state.fl.us/demo/index.html