PARKERSBURG — The Mid-Ohio Valley Well being Division has acquired a $50,000 award to assist COVID-19 response efforts via its Medical Reserve Corps.
The Medical Reserve Corps is a nationwide community of volunteers, organized domestically to enhance the well being and security of their communities. The community contains roughly 200,000 volunteers in roughly 800 community-based models all through the USA and its territories.
Throughout the 2020 COVID-19 response, MRC volunteers contributed roughly 840,000 hours of service, leading to a workforce financial savings of almost $24 million.
Medical Reserve Corps COVID-19 Response, Innovate, Maintain and Equip (R.I.S.E.) awards totaling $9.5 million got to 186 models and state coordinators by the Nationwide Affiliation of County and Metropolis Well being Officers (NACCHO), which represents the nation’s almost 3,000 native well being departments. The awards had been made potential via a cooperative settlement with the Workplace of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response’s Medical Reserve Corps Program Workplace with the U.S. Division of Well being and Human Sources.
The grant has allowed the native MRC unit to buy objects to help volunteers to assist in the neighborhood, based on a launch from the Mid-Ohio Valley Well being Division.
In keeping with NACCHO’s 2020 Community Profile of the Medical Reserve Corps, greater than half of models (63 p.c) expressed that further funding was their biggest want. Funding for these awards comes via the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.
The Mid-Ohio Valley Well being Division serves Wooden, Wirt, Calhoun, Pleasants, Ritchie and Roane counties.
