The Burke ARES® entered info a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Burke Medical Center on February 23, 2016. The agreement states that Burke ARES® will provide emergency communications for the hospital in times of emergency, communication outages and drills. John MacDonald, EC, and Scooter Dyson, OES, were on-hand for an area-wide drill on February 15 and provided communications for the hospital in the drill. In addition to the MoU, the hospital will install a VHF antenna and a 75M dipole for long-range communications.