Rapid Deployment Force 3

Rapid Deployment Force 3 RDF-3 is a Tier 1 response team of US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. Tier 2 teams are composed of a smaller, more specialized workforce.
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The USPHS Commissioned Corps is often deployed as part of ESF-8 in the national emergency response plan, but can also be deployed on an individual basis for various needs to other federal agencies, states, local governments, or even to aid foreign governments. Like all other federal-level responses, officers are deployed only upon request, and upon the recommendation of the Surgeon General and per

mission of the Assistant Secretary for Health. During deployments, officers may report to regular office spaces, such as coordinating responses at state-of-the-art emergency operations centers, or into the field in extremely austere environments, such as when responding to a natural disaster. In addition, deployments may either be on an individual basis, such as when specific skill sets are needed, or as part of a team, when large-scale responses are needed. The Corps recently introduced a tiered system of response, with Tier 1 response teams ready and able to respond to an event within 12 hours, and Tier 2 teams ready and able to respond within 36 hours. Officers not on Tier 1 or 2 teams are Tier 3 responders, ready and able to respond to an event in 72 hours. Tier 1 teams are primarily made up of Rapid Deployment Force (RDF) teams that are made up of over 100 officers with multiple specialties, and are focused on providing acute clinical care of disaster-exacerbated chronic conditions. Officers who do not work as a clinical care provider on one of these teams are often in support roles, such as logistics, administration/finance, or planning. Current Tier 2 teams include the Applied Public Health Team (APHT), the Mental Health Team (MHT), and the Services Access Team (SAT). Officers not already assigned to one of the Tier 1 and Tier 2 teams are Tier 3, and are used to augment these teams in the event of staffing shortages due to availability, or the need to scale up a response.

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•Depoloyed to CT in response for Hurricane Irene, August, 2011 •Completed Operation Foothold training in Paducah, KY, May 2011 •Completed OFRD Public Health and Medical Readiness Training, August 24-28, 2009 including FTX Operation Charybdis at Fort AP Hill, VA •Completed FTX Atlantic Wrath Hurricane Training Exercise, May 2009. •Deployed for Hurricane Gustav response, August-September, 2007. Contingents sent to Mississippi, College Station, and Baton Rouge. Contingent in Baton Rouge cared for medical special needs evacuees. Operated a 500-bed shelter in LSU Field House, and then merged with a 400-bed shelter in the Peter Maravich Assembly Center when our shelter sustained direct damage from Hurricane Gustav. • Deployed for 2007 California Wildfire response, November 2007. A strike team of 10 PHS Commissioned Officers deployed to affected Native American population affected by wildfire. Provided medical surge capacity and health care in a northern San Diego Tribal facility serving nine reservations, and provided necessary Public Health Nurse Outreach. The team provided 103 doctor visits, 1,477 prescriptions dispensed, and over 200 PHN visits over 5 reservations. •Completed RDF training at Camp Bullis, Texas, August 2007 •Made significant contributions to writing of CONOPS. •Sent team representative for RDF-3 to ASPR/OCCO for the 2007 Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee and Medical/Surgical Supply Cache Committee. We successfully revised the formulary and supply list for both the FMS and the Go-Bags. •Deployed in support of Hurricane Ernesto 2006 (Note: Posts/likes/following/being followed neither implies nor equals endorsement of the Federal government.)

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