NATIONAL DISASTER MEDICAL SYSTEM

National Disaster Medical System.A unit of the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security responsible for training, equipping, and deploying teams of emergency medical responders and for coordinating the transportation of people affected by emergencies. • The agency was transferred from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in 2003. — Abbr. NDMS.

[Blacks Law 8th]