HEART
Healthcare Emergency Amateur Radio Team
Mission
Healthcare Emergency Amateur Radio Team (HEART) is a team of dedicated amateur radio volunteers providing emergency communications for participating healthcare facilities during catastrophic events.
Purpose
The Healthcare Emergency Amateur Radio Team (HEART) was developed to provide emergency communications for participating healthcare facilities in the event of a catastrophic communications failure. This Team of licensed, amateur radio operators will provide external communications using the amateur radio system. This Team would be activated in advance of a weather-related event or other potential catastrophe by the individual healthcare facility. In the event that the healthcare facility experiences an internal or external communications failure the team can provide inter-facility communications and serve as a relay point.