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Memphis Training
Memphis and Shelby County used the First Trak system during Gustav to track the evacuees they recieved from New Orleans. The system worked well and was easy to train the First Responders on in less than 10 minutes. This week, the Shelby Co. MMRS group was able to train a new group of trainers within their response system from many different agencies. The Memphis Fire Department sent a large continigent of Battalion Chiefs and Trainers as well as Paramedics, The Red Cross was very well represented, and numerous local hospitals and EMS agencies. Germantown Fire Department and Bartlett Fire/EMS were represented. I was honored to meet staff from Tenet Healthcare’s St. Francis- Bartlett, Methodist, The Med, LeBonheur, the Memphis VA, and Delta Medical Center.
ProMed sent representatives from Knox County (Eastern Tennessee also has the system) as well as their Memphis operation. Also represented were Emmact, Abundant Care, and the Memphis/Shelby County EMA. The Office of Preparedness sent representives as did the Tennessee Department of Health-Division of EMS.
This is exactly the kind of multi-agency trining that is need to ensure a seamless integration of an EPTS in a community or region. No longer do you need a subject matter expert in the MAC or in your EOC to know how the tracking system works! When all levels of response are trained, as well as all agencies, the system can be expanded and utilized to it’s fullest capacity.
I work with a lot of communities, and I can say without a doubt that Memphis and Shelby County have certainly risen to the occasion with this training. I was proud to be a part of their learning process. This group proves to me that when people are motivated by one common goal and unified in their efforts towards reaching that goal, anything can be accomplished and agency lines can disappear, leaving one whole that is by far greater than the sum of it’s parts.
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Back to Louisiana
Here I was, thinking I was getting to go home.  I am headed back down to Louisiana, this time with the ProMed Ambulance crews, one of the finest bunch of people I have gotten to meet in the EMS business, and certainly the hardest working. Our tech department back home was monitoring all of our servers this week and commented on the lack of downtime these crews were taking for themselves, instead working to get the critical patients to safety as quickly as possible. LSU certainly is lucky to have them along with the crews from numerous other companies. I only got to meet a few of them, but those I did I will name here-
ASAP Ambulance, from Mississippi, Eagle, I am pretty sure they are from Memphis, LifeCare, LifeTeam, and of course, ProMed, who sent trucks from Knoxville (another place close to our hearts here at DMS), Nashville area, and Memphis.
We will caravan down (I will get left in the dust as I drive like a grandmother these days…) and set up shop wherever we can find accomodations for the crews. It’s going to be tough.
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