Carilion Clinic Patient Transportation: April 2008

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Friday, April 18, 2008

4th Annual StarPoints Conference a Huge Success

Each year, Carilion Clinic Life-Guard hosts their educational StarPoints Conference for EMS providers and hospital personnel. This year, the event was held at the Inn at Virginia Tech and Skelton Conference Center in Blacksburg, VA. We are extremely proud to report a record attendance of over 250 attendees-truly an example of the growing popularity of this annual event.
Highlights of the day included a keynote presentation on ambulance safety by nationally-acclaimed speaker Dr. Nadine Levick, a M*A*S*H*-style medical tent set up for advanced airway skills training, and a special presentation by the VA Tech Rescue Squad detailing lessons learned from the April 16, 2007 event. We would like to extend a huge thanks to all of the wonderful speakers who presented at this year's Conference-without them the event could not have been so successful!
Be sure to go ahead and mark your calendars for the 5th Annual StarPoints Conference which has already been scheduled for Saturday, April 11th, 2009 at The Inn at Virginia Tech. Stay tuned for details on the hottest EMS Conference in SW Virginia!
Click on the thumbnails below to see highlights from the day:









Thursday, April 17, 2008

Welcome Back, Tara!

We are very pleased to have Tara Clontz back at work with us here at Carilion Clinic Patient Transportation. On the afternoon of Jan. 12, 2008, Tara suffered severe injuries resulting from a farm tractor rollover in Franklin County. Our own Carilion Clinic Life-Guard 10 was actually called to the accident scene to transport Tara to the Trauma Services at CRMH. Our dedicated crews train endlessly for emergency calls such as this, but nothing can quite prepare them for arriving to find that the patient is a member of their own extended work family. It is times like this that are a stark reminder of the important role we play in the lives of those in our communities.
Thanks to the excellent care by the Carilion Clinic Trauma team, as well as Tara's sheer strength and determination, she was able to return to work with us last week. We all want Tara to know how much she is loved by her CCPT family and how happy we are to have her back with us!