About VA-1 DMAT

Disaster Medical Assistance Teams (DMATs) are part of the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) within the federal Department of Health and Human Services.

DMATs typically deploy as 38-person mobile medical units, or smaller strike teams, to augment local health care personnel and facilities in times of disaster. DMATs are capable of standing up self-supporting temporary emergency medical care centers, providing supplemental medical staff for denuded hospitals following disasters and providing airhead support for the movement of casualties from a disaster area to available health care resources in unaffected areas of the nation.