Hello and welcome to the DMAT FL-6 website. My name is Lloyd Parker and I am the team commander.

The National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) http://ndms.dhhs.gov/ has designated DMAT FL-6 as an operational Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT). NDMS is the coordinating federal agency under the auspices of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Department of Homeland Security, which coordinates DMAT’s.

DMAT FL-6 is one of dozens of such teams in the country. There are a total of six teams in Florida.

The sponsoring organization for DMAT FL-6 is the Central Florida Disaster Medical Assistance Team, Inc, a Florida 501c3 non-profit corporation. CFDMAT, Inc. has a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with both FEMA and the Florida Department of Health, which establishes the formal relationship between our membership and those governmental agencies. This relationship provides our membership with employment benefits such as compensation, workers comp coverage, job protection, and medical liability protection under certain circumstances.
 
DMAT FL-6 is comprised of a broad variety of over 130 volunteer medical workers, administrative personnel, logisticians, and communicators from throughout Central Florida. In our warehouse in Orlando we house a field hospital, with nationwide deployment capability prepared for 72 hours of self sustained operations. 

DMAT FL-6 is prepared to support a wide variety of medical operations form deploying mission specific personnel to providing a full field hospital with complete staffing at the sites of major disasters. FL-6 personnel have deployed to such events as World Trade Center, Rhode Island Night Club Fire, Houston Floods, Hurricane Floyd, Hurricane Georges, and Flagler Wildfires We have also provided large event medical coverage to mass community gatherings like the John Glenn Return to Space mission, the Patrick Air Force Base Air Show, and the Central Florida Boy Scout Camporee.

A variety of training activities are offered to team members. The team conducts a minimum of two full scale field exercise annually, free online training through the University of Maryland Baltimore Campus (UMBC) http://ndms.umbc.edu/ with free CEU/CME, and national conference opportunities. DMAT FL-6 is a co-sponsor of the Annual International Disaster Conference in Orlando, which is this year celebrating its 25^th anniversary http://www.femf.org/disaster2004.htm. 

If you are a doctor, nurse, paramedic, EMT, pharmacist, PA, ARNP, pharmacy tech, lab tech, respiratory therapist, mental heath counselor, safety officer, logistician, communications specialist, public information officer, security specialist, administrator or emergency manager and have a desire to serve your community we would like to meet you. 

You can contact me anytime at Lloyd Parker Commander. 

Thanks for visiting our website and we hope to hear from you soon.

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