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Medical Reserve Corps

The Salt Lake County Medical Reserve Corps (SLCo MRC) is a community-based organization of medical and public health volunteers whose mission is to respond to public health emergencies.

We encourage both medical and non-medical individuals to participate. Our goal is to strengthen public health infrastructure by improving community preparedness through training, exercise, community education, and response to public health emergencies.  

We coordinate our efforts within the Salt Lake County Health Department, professional organizations, local governments, and hospitals to ensure timely and effective responses.

Some of our non-emergent activities include staffing first-aid stations for community events, training for disaster preparedness, and educating in various aspects of health emergency response.

Emergency responses vary greatly, but we have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, wildfire evacuations, hepatitis A outbreak, and much more.

For more information about the SLCoMRC, email MRC@slco.org. 

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Thank you for your interest in volunteering with Salt Lake County Medical Reserve Corps. We look forward to welcoming you to our team!

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Medical Reserve Corps

For Current Volunteers

The SLCoMRC organizes volunteers under a tier structure recommended by our national partners.

We determine tiers by emergency response experience, training, exercises, unit activities, and activations/deployments: 

Level Deployable Level Descriptions Training
MRC Level 1

-EMAC/Federal
-Intrastate
-Local

-Meet the standards for Level 2
-Demonstrated experience in nonemergency activations or emergency deployments
-Capable of serving supervisory roles
-Background check required

Required:

IS-200
IS-800

Recommended:

MRC Core Competencies Learning Paths
Volunteer Leadership
Community Resiliency
MRC Level 2 -Intrastate
-Local		 -Meet the standards for Level 3
-Demonstrated experience through training/exercises
-Demonstrated participation in unit activities and non-emergency events
-Background check required

Required:

IS-100
IS-700

Recommended:

MRC Core Competencies Learning Paths
Volunteer Response
MRC Level 3 Local -Limited training or participation in unit activities
-Background check required

Required:

IS-200
IS-800

Recommended:

MRC Core Competencies Learning Paths
Volunteer Preparedness
MRC Level 4 Local surge response only -Registered with the MRC but have not completed MRC unit onboarding process or orientation
-Can be deployable during a local emergency surge response, if they receive a Just-In-Time-Training (JITT) orientation, role-specific JITT, and meet rapid deployment onboarding requirements.		  
Unassigned Non-deployable -Spontaneous or volunteers from other volunteer organizations
-Volunteers would need to register with the MRC unit and meet Level 3 requirements to be deployable		  

Criteria and responsibilities may change at any time due to updated recommendations from our national partners, state or county policy, and volunteer feedback.

All SLCoMRC trainings are temporarily unavailable while we overhaul the onboarding process.

Medical Reserve Corps