Medical Reserve Corps (MRC)

The Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) is a group of both medical and non-medical volunteers across Virginia. Created after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, volunteers are utilized for various tasks in our local health district.

MRC units throughout the state actively improve and protect their community’s public health by supporting:

• Health education and preventative health screenings.
• Efforts to provide medical services to at-risk populations.
• Communicable disease outbreak response.
• Volunteer emergency preparedness training and exercises.
• Local, state and national response to terrorism attacks and disasters; providing staffing support for medical services, emergency shelters, mental health outreach, dispensing sites for medications and vaccinations, disease investigations and environmental health efforts for food and human safety.

Most recently, Pittsylvania-Danville MRC volunteers have assisted with the Miles for Merchants 5k to support local businesses and a flu clinic at the community market.

For more information, you can visit the Virginia MRC website or contact our local MRC Coordinator, Josh Cassell at

804-584-0136 or joshua.b.cassell@vdh.virginia.gov.