Federal Medical Station being set up at Jamestown College

Central Valley Health District, along with other medical response agencies and members of the Stutsman County Emergency Operations Center have been working with Jamestown College to prepare for the possible opening of a Federal Medical Station on the campus of Jamestown College.

The FMS is an asset requested from the US Department of Health and Human Services by the North Dakota Department of Health. At this time, key agencies in Jamestown are preparing the facility to take in patients with special medical needs that have been evacuated from Fargo due to flooding,said Robin Iszler, RN, administrator of Central Valley Health District. The site is expected to become operational sometime today.

The University of Mary in Bismarck is also being set up as a FMS site and will be receiving patients with more acute needs while the facility in Jamestown will receive less acute patients.

The FMS contains a three-day supply of medical and pharmaceutical resources to sustain 250 stable primary care-based patients who require bedding services.

"It was a large undertaking to set up the FMS, but the process went very smoothly and we are grateful to the Jamestown College staff, faculty and students for all the assistance they have given," Iszler said.

A team of approximately 100 personnel, provided primarily by the U.S. Public Health Service, is needed to staff the FMS. The sites will receive supplemental staff from volunteer medical personnel across North Dakota.

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