Hurricane Katrina Volunteer Physicians:

If you wish to travel out of state to volunteer your medical services we urge you to contact the
Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS).  They are mobilizing health care professionals
and relief personnel to assist in Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. Physicians and other medical
professionals with any state license who can commit to short-term, long-term or rotating
coverage are urgently needed in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida and Texas. Visit
the HHS Health Care Professionals and Relief Personnel Volunteer Page at
https://volunteer.ccrf.hhs.gov/ to sign up. You can also call the Hurricane Katrina Volunteer
Call Center at (866) 528-6334.

Also, the Medical Reserve Corps Web site has just been updated with a Hurricane Katrina
Response page.  To find links to important information from the Department of Health and
Human Services, Centers for Disease Control, USA Freedom Corps and the work being done
by the MRC through the American Red Cross, please click on the Hurricane Katrina Response
icon on the right-hand side of the MRC homepage.  (www.medicalreservecorps.gov)  The page
will provide you with all of the MRC Listserv messages on the response efforts, attachments
to the listserv messages, and other available resources.

EPCMS is in the process of organizing local physician volunteers to assist evacuees coming
to our community. We will send information to you and post it on this website as soon as that is finalized.