Nursing & Health

Red Cross volunteer, Hideaki Yamazaki, delivers a hot meal along with a word of encouragement to a resident affected by the California Atmospheric River event.

Rickey Porter, an emergency medical technician, joined the Red Cross because he saw a need in his community— there were no other EMTs in Ohio County, Kentucky.  Ricky has deployed over 20 times and provides emergency medical care to Red Cross clients and volunteers.

Red Cross volunteer and Registered Nurse, Janice Chance speaks with a service member at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.

Dr. Yvette Miller thanks Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. President Reuben Shelton for donating blood at NPHC blood drive.

Mariveliz Cabán (left) and Olga Bonilla (right) are mental health volunteers who help people cope after disasters through the American Red Cross Puerto Rico Chapter (Cruz Roja Americana Capítulo de Puerto Rico).

Red Cross disaster health services volunteer Barbara Claire greets people affected by Hurricane Ian as they wait in line to pick up comfort kits, toiletries, water, hot meals, pantry kits and more at a disaster aid station in collaboration with the Mount Olive AME Church in Fort Myers, FL.

American Red Cross nurse Katie Ahmann carries a supply of COVID-19 tests as she enters the nurse’s office at the South Maui Community Park Gymnasium in Kihei, where the Red Cross and partners operate a congregate shelter.

Red Cross Volunteer and Blood Donor Brian Tusler of Raleigh, North Carolina makes his first blood donation with the help of phlebotomist Lakicha Bratcher during the ABC11 Together Blood Drive at Marriott Crabtree Raleigh.

Red Cross disaster responder, Dr. Jamie Harms, provides a wellness check for Angel Turner’s newborn baby at an emergency shelter in Valdosta, Georgia.

Red Cross volunteer Charlene Walker visits with Earnestine Hill after a destructive tornado decimated her home in Silver City, Mississippi in March 2023.

Nurse Zelthia Clark checks a patient’s blood pressure inside a clinic room at the G.A. Carmichael Family Health Center in Yazoo, Mississippi.

Disaster Health Services volunteer Tere Shannon consults with Jerry Combs about discomfort caused by an older prosthetic which was closest to him when he fled his home during the Eastern Kentucky flood.

Phlebotomist Geniya Oransky chats with longtime platelet donor Annmarie Adreani of Boston at the Dedham (MA) donor center.

When Mikaela, a Los Angeles pre-med student, saw an Afghan family struggling to carry their daughter who has Cerebral Palsy at the Fort Bliss Doña Ana Range Complex in New Mexico, she knew that she had to help. 

Red Cross disaster mental health volunteer Mary Ann McNamara plays with 4-year-old shelter resident Destine, coloring with chalk on the concrete floor of the evacuation shelter.

Staff of the G.A. Carmichael Family Health Center in Yazoo, Mississippi, and the local Red Cross Community Adaptation Program team celebrate their partnership and the new mobile health clinic.