The National Collegiate Emergency Medical Services Foundation recognized the University of Dayton's student-run emergency medical services with two achievements for its emergency management operations and cardiac arrest care.
The foundation promoted UD Emergency Medical Services to its "EMS Ready Campus" silver level and recertified it as part of the foundation's "HEARTSafe Campus" program.
The "EMS Ready Campus" campus program silver tier recognizes an organization that has moved beyond basic preparedness by completing targeted training for leaders and responders. It requires documented procedures for requesting campus alerts and evidence emergency operations plans and incident planning forms have been developed or integrated into the organization’s processes.
The HEARTSafe Campus program recognizes a college or university that has built a campuswide program for rapid response to sudden cardiac arrest, including trained responders, public CPR and AED access; participation in training and quality improvement, and engagement in preventive cardiovascular health activities.
"We are honored to be recognized for our continued hard work and professional development by our dedicated first responders. These programs help us continually improve the service we can provide our community," said Joseph Kern, a senior from Gurnee, Illinois, majoring in criminal justice and security studies and UD Emergency Medical Services chief. "We are thankful for the support and mentoring of UD Public Safety and Dr. Greg Kohls from Premier, who is our EMS physician and medical director, in helping us become among the top EMS programs nationally."
University of Dayton Emergency Medical Services, a three-time National Collegiate Emergency Medical Services Foundation collegiate EMS organization of the year, provides pre-hospital care and transportation for all medical, trauma and mental health emergencies on campus 24 hours a day, seven days a week during the academic year. All members are nationally and locally certified emergency medical technicians who attend additional training sessions on campus focusing on challenges and skills of the pre-hospital environment and continuing education seminars at local hospitals.
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