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Employee Profile: Sharon Grossman

 

 

Sharon Grossman RN, MSN, PHRN, CEN, TCRN, CFRN, CPEN, NREMT

Sr Professional Flight Nurse II at ME-17

Years of Experience – 6

Fun facts:

  • Sharon likes to travel – she has been to Hawaii 3 times!!
  • Sharon enjoys spending time with family.
  • She has a small farm with horses and chickens.
  • In addition to travel, Sharon has been known to take advantage of once in a lifetime opportunities like cliff jumping!!
  • She also enjoys home remodeling and has flipped properties for profit and enjoyment.
Employee Profile: Sharon Grossman2023-06-02T16:13:16-04:00

STAT MedEvac Airpod – A “Thank You” to EMS From a Resuscitation Survivor

STAT MedEvac AirPod PodcastElizabeth Wolfe, Executive Director at Pittsburgh Emergency Medicine Foundation talks about the inception of PEMF. The organization has funded over 200 grants and have their hands in everything that has to do with emergency medicine, research and education. Find more information on that at www.PEMF.net and on Facebook. Elizabeth also introduces Amy and Bill Norton. The couple shares the story of how EMS helped save Bill’s life.

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STAT MedEvac Airpod – A “Thank You” to EMS From a Resuscitation Survivor2023-05-27T12:11:43-04:00

EMS Week 2023: Where Emergency Care Begins

Emergency Medical Service professionals are an imperative part of our society, as most of you reading this know. That is why we celebrate  National EMS Week. From May 21 to May 27, EMS providers are recognized for their day-to-day civic duties as well as sometimeslife-saving efforts. While you may think they should be honored everyday, it wasn’t always the case in American history. In fact, the modern American EMS field is only about five decades old.  

Highway driving was new in the 1950s, and unfortunately, accidental injuries and preventable deaths due to inadequate care after car accidents also became all too familiar. Doctors were required to pull double duty, and it overextended them, creating the push for new types of medical personnel that were needed to step in to take over these cases. There was no choice […]

EMS Week 2023: Where Emergency Care Begins2023-05-24T14:22:20-04:00

World Blood Donor Day 2023

As healthcare professionals, we see and understand the benefits of having blood donations available. However, how many of us encourage our friends and family members to donate? The need for blood is constant. Every two seconds, someone in the United States needs blood. Blood is essential to help patients survive surgeries, cancer treatment, chronic illnesses and traumatic injuries. Thankfully, 6.8 million individuals volunteer to give 13.6 million units of lifesaving blood and platelets every year. This is one of the reasons World Blood Donor Day was created.  

 

Each year on June 14, we celebrate World Blood Donor Day, recognizing blood donors and the importance of a safe and stable blood supply. The campaign this year is, “Give blood, give plasma, share life, share often.” It focuses on patients requiring life-long transfusion support and […]

World Blood Donor Day 20232023-06-14T11:39:26-04:00

Employee Profile: Jill Ekis

Jill Ekis RN, CFRN, PHRN

Senior Professional Flight Nurse II

Years of Service – 4.5

 Fun Facts:

  •  Can be found, literally, horsing around in her off time in the competitive Dressage Arena and serves on the United States Dressage Federation Adult Programs Committee. She is working on becoming a nationally licensed official for the federation. 
  • Occasionally gets to work with her husband, who serves on the FBI task force and Allegheny County SWAT team, through STAT’s tactical division where she serves as the Spec Ops Tactical Coordinator.
  • Before becoming a nurse, she worked in Hollywood Special F/X shops creating mechanical creatures and props for film, television and Broadway shows.
  • Those who work closely with her know to feed her if she is in […]
Employee Profile: Jill Ekis2023-05-15T21:23:44-04:00

National Hospital Week & National Nurses Week

In case you didn’t already know this, May 7-13 is National Hospital Week. This recognition initially began as a day, created in 1921 to promote confidence and education in hospitals following the Spanish flu. The President of the United States at the time, Warren G. Harding saw this as a way to rebuild the public’s trust in the city hospitals after the Spanish flu claimed more than 675,000 Americans.  

 

In 1953, National Hospital Day was changed to include an entire week in order to help educate the public about medical examinations and treatments. Now we use this week to also help honor those who work in a hospital setting, and recognize all of the day-to-day hard work, especially throughout the pandemic.  

 

This week, May 6-12, we also recognize National Nurses Week, in honor […]

National Hospital Week & National Nurses Week2023-05-10T19:22:19-04:00

Employee Profile: Lindsay Palm

 

Lindsay Palm NRP, FP-C

Professional Flight Paramedic

Years of Service – 2.5  

 Fun facts: 

  • Lindsay actually coordinated her senior picture on the helipad at UPMC Presby with Dan Nakles when she was a senior at Pitt. She had no idea she’d be working for STAT just three years later!
  • She started in the midst of the pandemic, so Lindsay had never flown in a helicopter prior to her first day at STAT MedEvac!
  • Lindsay finished nursing school a few months ago and also works as an RN in the Trauma/Surgical ICU at UPMC Presby.
  • In her off time, she enjoys spending time outside with her Great Dane, Aries and exploring Pittsburgh.
Employee Profile: Lindsay Palm2023-05-01T15:17:00-04:00

History of National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week

 

Last week was National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week. It’s held annually during the second week of April to honor public safety telecommunicators for their commitment, service and sacrifice. NPSTW originated in 1981 with longtime dispatcher, Patricia Anderson, of the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office in California who stood up for her fellow “dispatchers” and acknowledged how hard they work.  

 

One afternoon in 1981, Contra Costa County Sheriff Richard Rainey wanted to acknowledge his administrative staff by treating them all to lunch. Traditionally, the administrative staff was never to let their lines go unanswered, so they would transfer their calls to dispatch after hours. Dispatch would just tell the caller to call back during business hours, which generally didn’t impact the dispatch center because the volume was very low, but it did on this one particular instance.  

History of National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week2023-04-21T11:31:50-04:00

Donate Life Blue and Green Day

As April comes to a close, we want to remember the importance of this month; It’s National Donate Life Month. In the United States, every nine minutes someone joins the national transplant waiting list. Unfortunately, every day in the United States, 17 people on that list pass away waiting for an organ. It’s truly a sad statistic, but there is hope, thanks to organ donors.  

Living donation is a transplant option that can reduce wait times on the transplant waiting list and save lives with those who are in end-stage liver or kidney failure. The liver has the unique ability to regrow in just a few months, giving both the donor and the recipient a fully functioning liver. In addition, we may be born with two kidneys, but our body is capable of living with only one, […]

Donate Life Blue and Green Day2023-04-28T23:27:28-04:00

STAT MedEvac Podcast – Dog Therapy With Hollee Russell

STAT MedEvac Podcast

Our own Hollee Russell has been a self-proclaimed “crazy dog lady” for as long as she can remember. As she puts it, she has had “the honor of being on the other end of a the leash” of her dogs. She has  trained for numerous situations and has trained additional dogs and handlers.  She tells her story in this episode of STAT AirPod.

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STAT MedEvac Podcast – Dog Therapy With Hollee Russell2023-04-19T15:19:00-04:00
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