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47 85.0 Index 2.3.15 2.0 CPE Community Planning & Engagement Coordination 5.0 MVDE Management of Volunteers during Emergencies The ability to coordinate the identification, recruitment, registration, credential verification, training, and engagement of healthcare, medical, and support staff volunteers to support the jurisdiction’s response to incidents of health significance M186 Number of Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) members who are other health professionals per 100,000 population in the state The Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) is a national system of local, community-based teams of volunteers—medical and public health professionals and others without health backgrounds—who are identified, credentialed, trained, and prepared in advance of an emergency. Other public health and medical professionals (e.g., epidemiologists, environmental engineers, toxicologists) can provide logistical support and information technology support as well as staff information hotlines and mass clinics, assist with registration, and perform health screening. MRC Medical Reserve Corps (MRC), MRC Units Database and Census Bureau data analyzed by PMO personnel. 2015—2018 The measure does not evaluate the quality of the MRC management and current status of other health professionals who are licensed, credentialed, and received emergency response training.