Grants to EMS crews designed to help save lives
Rochelle Eiselt, Journal-Courier
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Memorial Medical System Foundation has awarded grants to 32 central Illinois EMS agencies to fund the purchase of American Heart Association instruction books on basic life support, advanced life support and pediatric life support.Ted Horowitz
Memorial Medical System Foundation has awarded grants to 32 central Illinois EMS agencies to fund the purchase of American Heart Association instruction books on basic life support, advanced life support and pediatric life support.
The grants will allow the groups to train and educate their staff and increase their instructor pool.
All of the 32 agencies are affiliated with Memorial Health System, which serves as the resource organization for the groups. They include: Alexander Fire Protection District, Arenzville Fire and Rescue, Ashland Fire Department, Chandlerville Fire Department, Jacksonville Fire Department, South Jacksonville Fir
By Jeremy Coumbes on February 17, 2021 at 11:02am
More than 30 EMS agencies in central Illinois are receiving grant funding to help meet training and certification requirements.
Thirty-two emergency medical service (EMS) agencies in nine counties will receive more than $17,000 in grant money from the Memorial Medical Center Foundation to purchase instructional materials required for on-site training and certification.
According to this morning’s announcement by Memorial Health Systems, the grant will allow the agencies to purchase American Heart Association instructional books for Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Life Support (ALS), and Pediatric Life Support (PLS) and will allow the groups to train and educate staff and increase the instructor pool at each agency.
February 10, 2021
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) is standing by to deliver the first doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to its over 2,000 workers on the COVID-19 frontline whenever it becomes available, the QEH’s Executive Chairman Juliette Bynoe-Sutherland has told
Barbados TODAY.
She said that the hospital has put all systems in place to facilitate the roll-out of the vaccine.
Bynoe-Sutherland said: “We believe we can comfortably immunize the hospital staff over a period of seven days and we have developed a tentative schedule of departments focusing of course first on staff members at the isolation centres, Accident and Emergency Room, the Emergency Ambulance Service, all of our clinical departments across the length and breadth of the hospital; radiology, radiotherapy, and I can go on.”
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