The Eastern Shore

For several years now, our company has been all over the country, gathering data and feedback from hospitals, Public Safety agencies, Fire Departments, Regional Councils, Emergency Management Agencies… all to create, recreate, change, and morph the FirstTrak Suite into something useful for every sector of Disaster Healthcare.
From mobile field hospitals to large several hundred bed facilities, from small town fire departments to one of the largest in the country, we work with all to create a unified data structure that enables many to stand as one.
Constantly changing and growing from each real life experience, each deployment with one of our customers, and each drill we attend and participate in, we have enabled a product once used for inventory to collect data on Flu Immunizations, Point of Dispensing, Pet Tracking, Evacuees, Family Reunification, Patient Tracking, MCI transports, Evidence Collection, and Decedent Tracking and Identification.
Our latest trip was to visit one of our first customers Caroline County Public Health, and to welcome the newest members of the DMS family, MHE and DGH, both located on the beautiful Eastern Shore of Maryland.

Tags: Decedent Tracking and Identification., DMS, evacuees, Evidence Collection, Family Reunification, Flu Immunizations, Inventory, MCI transports, Patient Tracking, Pet Tracking, Point of Dispensing, Shore Health

Memphis Training

Memphis and Shelby County used the First Trak system during Gustav to track the evacuees they recieved from New Orleans. The system worked well and was easy to train the First Responders on in less than 10 minutes. This week, the Shelby Co. MMRS group was able to train a new group of trainers within their response system from many different agencies. The Memphis Fire Department sent a large continigent of Battalion Chiefs and Trainers as well as Paramedics, The Red Cross was very well represented, and numerous local hospitals and EMS agencies. Germantown Fire Department and Bartlett Fire/EMS were represented. I was honored to meet staff from Tenet Healthcare’s St. Francis- Bartlett, Methodist, The Med, LeBonheur, the Memphis VA, and Delta Medical Center.

ProMed sent representatives from Knox County (Eastern Tennessee also has the system) as well as their Memphis operation. Also represented were Emmact, Abundant Care, and the Memphis/Shelby County EMA. The Office of Preparedness sent representives as did the Tennessee Department of Health-Division of EMS.

This is exactly the kind of multi-agency trining that is need to ensure a seamless integration of an EPTS in a community or region. No longer do you need a subject matter expert in the MAC or in your EOC to know how the tracking system works! When all levels of response are trained, as well as all agencies, the system can be expanded and utilized to it’s fullest capacity.

I work with a lot of communities, and I can say without a doubt that Memphis and Shelby County have certainly risen to the occasion with this training. I was proud to be a part of their learning process. This group proves to me that when people are motivated by one common goal and unified in their efforts towards reaching that goal, anything can be accomplished and agency lines can disappear, leaving one whole that is by far greater than the sum of it’s parts.

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Homeland Security Grants by State

Homeland Security Grants by State

To find out about Department of Homeland Security Grants for your state, please click below. You will find conact information for the Homeland Security Grant Advisor in your state, as well as information about available grant funds in your state. Alabama Homeland Security Grants Alaska Homeland Security Grants Arizona Homeland Security Grants Homeland Security Grants California Homeland Security Grants Colorado Homeland Security Grants Connecticut Homeland Security Grants Delaware Homeland Security Grants District Homeland Security Grants Florida Homeland Security Grants Georgia Homeland Security Grants Hawaii Homeland Security Grants Idaho Homeland Security Grants Illinois Homeland Security Grants Indiana Homeland Security Grants Iowa Homeland Security Grants Kansas Homeland Security Grants Louisiana Homeland Security Grants Maine Homeland Security Grants Maryland Homeland Security Grants Massachusetts Homeland Security Grants Michigan Homeland Security Grants Minnesota Homeland Security Grants Mississippi Homeland Security Grants Missouri Homeland Security Grants Montana Homeland Security Grants Nebraska Homeland Security Grants Nevada Homeland Security Grants New Hampshire Homeland Security Grants New Jersey Homeland Security Grants New Mexico Homeland Security Grants New York Homeland Security Grants North Carolina Homeland Security Grants North Dakota Homeland Security Grants Ohio Homeland Security Grants Oklahoma Homeland Security Grants Oregon Homeland Security Grants Pennsylvania Homeland Security Grants Puerto Rico Homeland Security Grants Rhode Island South Carolina Homeland Security Grants South Dakota Homeland Security Grants Tennessee Homeland Security Grants Texas Homeland Security Grants Utah Homeland Security Grants Vermont Homeland Security Grants Virginia Homeland Security Grants Washington Homeland Security Grants West Virginia Homeland Security Grants Wisconsin Homeland Security Grants Wyoming Homeland Security Grants Guam Homeland Security Grants Northern Mariana Islands Homeland Security Grants Virgin Islands Homeland Security Grants American Samoa Homeland Security Grants

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