SEPTEMBER 2020
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Time for our 2020 Drive 4UR Community OCTOBER 10 at Ray Price Mt Pocono
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Take a view through a few that are important to providing pivtol healthcare and where we were a part; plus where coming soon YOU can too!
2 DRIVE 4UR COMMUNITY An October Opportunity
Introduces a New MedEvac Helo
4 ST LUKE’S APPRECIATION Thanks to First Responders
5 PINK OUT PULLS THROUGH
PMREMS Fundraiser for Cancer
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Experience How the 2971 ROUTE 940 MOUNT POCONO PMREMS Virtual Reality 9am-2pm first-hand Experience as we join Ray Works: Price Ford 9a.m. No matter what to 2p.m. October 10th event type you choose, with a fundraising opall participants will have portunity the option to take a virtual reality that’s really quite unique. experience if not comfortable with attending a physical event. Ford Drive 4UR Community
Understanding not everyone can take a test drive in person; so this year’s event is offering virtual test drives!
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invites licensed and insured drivers to take a test drive with each earning $20 towards our nonprofit. But that’s not all... the day’s intent is to enjoy time spent learning about our lifesaving equipment, techniques, plus a peek into our ambulances for a view (or two) of how our medical professionals serve you.
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The virtual experience will be available on a webpage – nothing will need to be downloaded by the participant. This will be accessible on desktop and mobile. Participants can choose one of two vehicles to “test-drive”: Bronco Sport and Mach-E. Participants will go through a series of interactive steps that showcase the selected vehicle, including 360° interior and exterior views of the vehicle, interactive hotspots and a virtual test-drive route. The overall virtual experience will take an estimated 5 minutes to complete.
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LVHN Introduces New MedEvac Helicopter to Northeastern Pennsylvania Fleet BY KATIE CAVENDER
“No matter what hospital in the health network patients visit, they have the backing of an entire health network,” says John Fletcher, President, Lehigh Valley Hospital (LVH)–Hazleton. With that in mind, Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) introduced an EC-145 helicopter yesterday during a virtual event at Hazleton Regional Airport. Speakers included Fletcher; Andrew Miller, DO, Acting Vice Chair of Emergency and Hospital Services at LVH–Cedar Crest and Emergency Room Medical Director at LVH–Hazleton; Nathan Hagstrom, MD, Chair, LVHN Department of Pediatrics; and Keith Miccuci, Emergency Medical Transport Administrator. The EC-145 helicopter enhances the health network’s continuum of care in northeastern Pennsylvania and features a larger cabin which allows additional members of the care team and equipment to be used in flight. “Patients who normally would require ground transport due to lifesaving equipment and care team members who need to accompany them, can now be flown to the Lehigh Valley,” Fletcher says.
Extra space for the smallest patients “NICU patients often require space for equipment such as an isolette, which keeps the baby warm during transport, ventilator equipment with oxygen, cardiac monitors and IV pumps in addition to the care team,” Hagstrom says. “This aircraft provides the space needed to help these little patients arrive to Lehigh Valley Reilly Children’s Hospital quickly while receiving the acute care they need.” At Lehigh Valley Reilly Children’s hospital, patients have access to over 30 specialties, just for kids.
Lehigh Valley Heart Institute services offered in flight Patients requiring extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO, also will benefit. ECMO is often used for patients who have heart failure, cardiogenic shock or cardiac arrest. During the procedure, blood is drawn from the body and run through a machine that acts as an artificial lung. It requires an in-flight team of at least three people – a critical care transport registered nurse, critical care transport paramedic, perfusionist, and sometimes even a cardiothoracic surgeon. Today, these patients can be connected to all the services of Lehigh Valley Heart Institute in a fraction of the time through MedEvac air transportation.
Lifesaving transport with LVHN Medevac LVHN partners with Air Method to operate a fleet of four helicopters in northeastern Pennsylvania. All MedEvac vehicles, whether helicopter or ambulance, are staffed by experienced critical care professionals capable of administering care beyond the scope of Advanced Life Support ambulances. LVHN MedEvac air medical program began operations in 1981 as the first air medical transport services in northeast Pennsylvania. Over the last 39 years, they have completed more than 40,000 missions traveling as far as Massachusetts and Ohio to transport patients. The EC-145 will be centrally located in a hangar at Hazleton Regional Airport and will serve Luzerne, Schuylkill, Monroe and Carbon counties for patient transport.
For more information about our MedEvac program, please visit LVHN.org/medevac
Our St. Luke’s family thanks ALL firstLuke’s responders Our St. family for thanks protecting and keeping ALL first responders forour community safekeeping and healthy. protecting and our community safe and healthy. Nick Dewitt, Paramedic, Business Manager, Pocono Mountain Regional EMS Nick Dewitt, Paramedic, Business Manager, Sgt. Charles Brown,Pocono Stroud Area MountainPolice Regional EMS Regional Department Sgt. Charles Brown, Stroud Area Mike McMann, 2nd Assistant Regional PoliceTownship Department Chief, Pocono Volunteer Fire Company Mike McMann, 2nd Assistant Chief, Pocono Township Volunteer Fire Company
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roud to be a part of the community, Pocono Mountain Regional Emergency Medical Services pulled together friends, neighbors and the nonprofit’s supporters to help raise funds for breast cancer awareness this month. Recognizing the appeal of purchasing logoed apparel, PMREMS rallied residents to purchase t-shirts and more with the emergency services provider’s symbol raising $1,861.28 with 100% dedicated to Metavivor for Stage 4 research.
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