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Jan Calhoun and Bassett Trauma Center Honored Jeanet “Jan” Calhoun, MSN, RN, EMT, was honored last month as the Trauma Program Manager of Distinction for 2020 by the New York State Division of the American Trauma Society. Typically this award is given to managers of Level One or Level Two trauma centers in large city hospitals. In 2019, the Bassett Cooperstown Emergency department learned it could no longer qualify as a Level Two trauma center. It had six months to verify a Level Three stat...

Amesbury father donates nearly 500 laptops to people in need [The Daily News of Newburyport, Mass.] Dec. 24—AMESBURY — A local father, who has fixed and donated close to 500 laptops to people in need since August, delivered 60 Chromebooks to the Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center on Tuesday with the help of two $1,250 donations. Jeffrey Williams, a former elementary school teacher who has spent the last 20 years working in information technology, was first moved to help others over the summer when...

AMESBURY — A local father, who has fixed and donated close to 500 laptops to people in need since August, delivered 60 Chromebooks to the Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center on

Dec 22, 2020 Trinity Health has scheduled a “Stop the Bleed” training session Jan. 5 from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Health Center Riverside, 1900 8th Avenue SE. Stop the Bleed is a national initiative that empowers community members to take lifesaving action if quickly needed, regardless of the situation or cause of severe bleeding. “Bleeding is the #1 cause of preventable death after an injury,” said Rhonda Gunderson, RN, BSN, Trinity Health’s Trauma Program manager. “The skill of being...

Garrett D. Hall Joins ESO as Director of Registry Programs; Slated to Speak During American Trauma Society Registry Webinar Series Share Article Hall brings years of registry experience to ESO with a strong background in biomedical informatics I’m excited about leading the charge to build ESO’s partnership with trauma leaders and to help invent the future of registries. AUSTIN, Texas (PRWEB) December 16, 2020 ESO, the leading d...

Possibly have gone. >> re-emphasize that point too. these things can be difficult -- they are difficult. but this event here was very well managed. it takes a lot of preparation for that to happen from the hospital standpoint, from the administration who supports the trauma program here, down to all different layers of physicians and some nursing staff and o.r. staff and x-ray staff. the whole hospital. i mean the whole hospital is completely involved to take people to clean the rooms up afterwa...

Two admitted under stable condition. one was admitted under critical condition which has since been downgraded and will be in stable condition on the floor this afternoon. all of our patients are expected to have a full recovery soon and will soon be discharged from the hospital. id like to commend all of our e.r. physicians staff and facilities for the treatment and to being ready and take care of the critically injured patients. im very proud personally in our community should definitely be pr...

Of these kids. this is a small town. >> well, thats true. and many of our employees, you know, have kids that go to franklin regional, and they were worried about their children today. i personally live three blocks from franklin regional. so, you know, as i was driving to work this morning, i was actually counting the ambulances that were driving past me and calling in, and saying, number four went by, number five went by, number six went by. and also looking out my windshield to look at what w...

National attention? >> i think forbes has been on a journey the last ten years of raising the level of services they provide. we have a cardiac program, open heart and with implementation of the trauma program, it was to prepare for an event like this. we live in a community that can become relatively isolated with bridges and tunnels and all of that. sometimes a response can be delayed. the critical nature of these injuries demanded an acute response. from the paramedics, down to the trauma sur...

Reinstruments tating the first phase, restoring second-phase and rehabilitation theurz phase. dr. rhee and lemole dealt with the initial injuries. the second-phase with restoring and improving the patients clinical condition. this was partially because dr. rhee and his team have got an excellent general surgery program here at university medical center. last saturday the teams performed on congresswoman giffords a tracheotomy, placement of a feeding tube and repair of a fracture in the right eye...