Pictured Above: Rep Barbara Massey-Reese and David Foster

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VOL 23 NO 4 THE NUMBER ONE EMS REGION IN GEORGIA FEBRUARY 2010 Pierson.

PICTURED ABOVE: REP BARBARA MASSEY-REESE AND DAVID FOSTER EMS DAY AT THE WHO WILL RECEIVE CHANGES MOVES TO CAPITOL 2010 REGIONAL AWARDS? ATLANTA The EMS day at the capitol was held The annual CHANGES EMS on February 18 and included breakfast The 2010 Region 1 EMS Awards nomination forms have been released Conference is moving to Atlanta from with legislators, recognition in the Augusta. The conference will be held senate chamber and an opportunity to and are available from Region 1 EMS. The Mike Miller Memorial EMS from March 29- April 1, 2010 at the talk to legislators at a reception. The Renaissance Waverly Hotel. This year Georgia legislature must address state Educator of the Year nomination process has been changed and you may register for one day at a time budget shortfalls this session and it if you desire. More information is was important for EMS to stress the nominations are required. Also new awards have been established for EMS available on the Georgia EMS importance of our program to the Association website at legislators. Your legislators missed Medical Call of the Year and Pediatric you if you did not attend. Call of the Year. The 2010 Awards HTTP://WWW.GA- committee were Jeff Putnam, Cherry EMS.COM/ EMS COUNCIL NAMES Jones and Leslie Hightower. The awards this year are EMS Service of GEORGIA EMS NEW OFFICERS the Year, EMT of the Year, Danny Hall Memorial Medic of the Year, Stanley AWARDS The EMS Council named new Payne Memorial EMS Director of the officers, executive committee Year, Mike Miller Memorial EMS The annual Georgia EMS Awards members and at-large members at the Educator of the Year, Dr. A. Richard Banquet will be held on May 6, 2010 last meeting on January 14, 2010 in Gray Memorial Excellence in Trauma, at the Georgia Public Safety Training Rome. Russell McDaniel was named Dr. Virginia Hamilton Special Center in Forsyth beginning at 6:00 Council Chairman. Randy Pierson was Achievement Award, and Dr. James H. p.m. The charge is $20 per person. named the new Council Vice- Creel Jr. EMS Pioneer, Medical Call You must register before April 30, Chairman. The Executive Committee of the Year and Pediatric Call of the 2010. The awards will be: is: Year. A Training Center award will be EMS Service of the Year Richard Eberhart (at-large) added next year. The 2010 Region 1 EMT of the Year Larry Owens (Bartow County) EMS Awards banquet will be held in EMS Director of the Year Lana Duff (Catoosa County) Rome at the Rome Civic Center on EMS Educator of the Year Award Lonnie Oliver (Fannin County) March 18, 2010 beginning at 6:30 Dr. Charles Gillespie Medical Director Craig Norton (Haralson County) p.m. The event is sponsored by Floyd of the Year Jeff Putnam (Whitfield County) Medical Center. You must RSVP if Dr. Zeb Burrell Award Dr. Jill Mabley (Cherokee County) you intend to eat the meal sponsored Dr. John B. O’Neal Pioneer Award by Floyd Medical Center. RSVP must Dr. Joe Simon Pediatric Call of the The at-large members named were Jim be sent to Year Cutcher, Richard Eberhart and Randy [email protected] Mary Beth Bownes Trauma Call of the Year Joe Lane Cox Award HOW TO GET HOW GOOD IS YOUR HOLD OFF ON EMS MEMORY? RE-LICENSURE TRAINING APPROVED SUBMISSIONS IN REGION 1 I recently received a complaint about a call that was several years old and David Foster has requested that all The deadline for EMS re-licensure is discovered that patient care reports continuing education approval be were not done on two of the most June 30, 2010. Most EMS submitted by electronic method by professionals begin sending the paper seriously injured patients. The completion of form T05-A and response to these patients must be forms into the Office of EMS in submitting it to him as an e-mail February. However, the Office of EMS reconstructed by the reports of all attachment to his e-mail address. other public safety agencies who is nearing completion of the on-line Form T-05A may be found at re-licensure mechanism. Therefore, responded. If you had to recount all we are asking you to wait until this the details of these patients, how good HTTP://WWW.EMS.GA.GOV/PR is your memory? If you had to defend web-based method of re-licensure is OGRAMS/EMS/POLICY.ASP completed. You will need a credit card yourself in court, how accurate would you be compared to testimony from to complete the transaction. Those The form is T-05A listed in the the other agencies and individuals who failing to submit re-license procedure form section. David’s responded? If you chose not to attempt information by June 30, 2010 may not e-mail address is resuscitation on patients, you need to work on a licensed EMS unit but may [email protected]. still submit the re-licensure defend your decision on a patient care report form .If Medicare or Medicaid information with a penalty fee until FLOYD MEDICAL December 31, 2010. After this date, reviewed the completed reports for all you will be revoked and must retake CENTER EMS individuals billed to them and if they the National Registry exam and other TRAINING CENTER did not find proof that the call had steps in order to reinstate your license. been made, then all money paid to Floyd Medical Center EMS Training your service would have to be MARK 1 KITS TO BE Center has at least one course a month refunded. You need to protect yourself which is open to outside registration. and your employer by completing the RETURNED These courses vary from BCLS, patient care reports. It might be a good AMLS, PHTLS, and ACLS to the new idea for the shift supervisor to check at If you have not returned your Mark 1 ATT course. If you need hours for re- the end of each shift to be certain that kits to the Office of EMS, you may do licensure you may want to consider a patient care report was completed on this at any time. All contents of the these courses. Contact Andy Fairel at each patient. kits have expired and the kits have 706-509-3820 or at been removed from the required list of [email protected] for more NEW AWARD equipment for inspection. Only the information. kits on Pickens, Cherokee, Bartow and AFFORDS Paulding counties will be replaced. OPPORTUNITY TO FANNIN AND GILMER DEMONSTRATE COUNTIES TO SUCCESS RECEIVE AEDS SCHOOL BOMB THREATS This year two new awards will CLASS Fannin and Gilmer Counties will provide the opportunity to show the receive automatic external effectiveness of STEMI (ST elevation Georgia Emergency Management defibrillators from a HRSA grant of Myocardial Infarctions) and Stroke Agency will be presenting a class on through Georgia Department of programs. I know most of you have managing school bomb threats on Community Health District 1.2 joined STEMI programs and are Wednesday, March 24, 2010 at the (Dalton) this month. The AEDs will be transmitting 12-lead EKGs to Georgia Public Safety Center in placed on all the fire and police receiving hospitals in order to prepare Forsyth, GA. The class is free and has vehicles in both counties. Thanks to them to rapidly open blocked coronary been approved for 6 hours for EMS, Jim Cutcher and Leslie Hightower for arteries upon arrival. In addition, all Fire and POST. Pre-registration is providing the training to all fire and services should be using the required. police personnel. The continuation of Cincinnati Stroke Scale to determine if the grant next year will additionally patients have experienced a stroke and place AEDs on all fire and police to prepare Stroke Centers to rapidly vehicles in Murray County and all open cerebral arteries. These new schools in all three counties. awards will allow you to demonstrate how effective these programs are in Region 1. Let’s hear from you.