| National Center for Medical Readiness | |
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National Center for Medical Readiness symbol |
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| Formation | 2005 |
| Type | Emergency management |
| Purpose/focus | Emergency response |
| Headquarters | Dayton, Ohio, U.S. |
| Region served | United States |
| Senior Director | Glenn C. Hamilton, M.D. |
| Website | http://www.med.wright.edu/medicalreadiness |
The National Center for Medical Readiness (NCMR) provides medically oriented education, training, product testing, and research opportunities for medical, public health, public safety, and civilian and military personnel at its 52-acre Tactical Laboratory, Calamityville, located in Fairborn, Ohio. NCMR is a division of the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine Department of Emergency Medicine.
Calamityville is a training and research facility, located in Fairborn, Ohio, to provide training opportunities for medical, public health, public safety, and civilian and military disaster response persons who have the responsibility to be decision makers. It is the training facility associated with the National Center for Medical Readiness. The Calamityville site was donated by Cemex a cement producing company.[1]
The different ares of Calamityville focus on preparing medical responders (ER Doctors and nurses), and medical-based decision makers (administrators, managers) to react in a responsible and cost effective way to the increased patient volume, and changes in the normal infrastructure which come out of most mass casualty/disaster events. The training grounds will include a mock neighborhood with props for a flood, plane crash and building collapse simulations. A rail line may one day cut through the back of the facility to provide a grounds for simulations of various disasters, such as de-railed rail cars, and a body of water with a mock plane for simulating water and land evacuations.[2]
This facility attempts to bridge the gap between medical readiness and disaster response through the making and deployment of training programs that offer solutions to dynamic emergency rescue challenges including:[3]