Texas EMS Magazine, Volume 30, Number 6, November/December 2009 Page: 23
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Regional EMS News
New McLennan Community College
Emergency Services Education Center openslhe AteLnnuan oLmu: unili C ula c
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McL..nnan County and McLennan Ccmmunitv
Cohege opened in June. From left to right,
Wency Plumler ofEast Tex:as Medical Center
EMS, Waco Police ChiefBrent Stroman and
Waco Fire Deputy Chief Genn Wilson opened
the newfaci'ity with a ceremony
A grand opening and building
decratior ceremony was helix
in Jily for the new McLennan
Community College Emergency
Services Education Center (E SEC).
Waco dignitaries cut :he ribbon
while college, local government, law
enforcement, fire and EMS personnel
looked on. The new building was
built through a partnership between
McLennan Community College, the
City of Waco and McLennan County.
The facility will serve all fire, law
enforcement, and EMS in McLennan
County, and it will ie home to MCC's
criminal justice, fcrensic science and
EMS programs, as well as the law
enforcement and fire academies.
The ESEC has 50,000 squarefeet, ten classrooms and a 150-person
lecture hall. Other features include
EMS and forensic labs, faculty offices,
conference/library room, computer lab
and a student commons area. All of the
classrooms are "smart classrooms,"
equipped with an instructor podium/
cart set with a computer and audio-
visual equipment. The training
center also includes a six-story burn
tower, a large weight room and a
large takedown room used to teach
firefighters how to carry people to
safety. The room also will be used
to teach police officers and EMS
personal how to handle aggressive
people and subdue them without
injury.
AED placed in
county courthouse
Washington County EMS and
several other county departments
combined efforts to make the
Washington County courthouse a little
safer for everyone. The courthouse
provides services to hundreds of citizens
and visitors each day.
Washington County EMS was
awarded a grant from the Office of
Rural Community Affairs (ORCA;
now called Texas Department of Rural
Affairs), to have an AED installed at the
courthouse. TDRA provided the AED
and EMS provided training for multiple
departments within the courthouse,
creating what is essentially a courthouse
response team. Having the AED and
trained operators in-house drastically
increases a patient's chance for survival
during cardiac arrest.
Washington County EMS
department's goal to implement Public
Access Defibrillation (PAD) stations
has resulted in more than 50 more
defibrillators placed around the county.Texas EMS
ConferenceConference 2009
Exhibit hall hours for
2009
Sunday 10 am to 7 pm
Opening reception 3 to 5 pm
Monday 9 am to 3 pm
Exhibit hall closed TuesdayNovember/December 2009 Texas EMS Magazine 23
Local
Austin gets two
in one day
DSHS designated two hospitals
as Level I trauma centers in Austin in
August. University Medical Center
Brackenridge received verification
for adult trauma; Dell Children's
Medical Center of Central Texas for
pediatric trauma. Austin had been the
largest city in the nation without a
Level I trauma center. To move to the
higher Level I designation, both UMC
Brackenridge and Dell Children's
increased their trauma research
and education activities as well as
added certain special procedures
such as microvascular surgery and
digit/limb reattachment. The two
medical centers have been providing
many of the Level I requirements for
some time, such as 24/7 availability
of specialist in neurosurgery,
anesthesiology, emergency medicine,
radiology, internal medicine, oral
and maxillofacial surgery and critical
care. At UMC Brackenridge, the three
most common trauma cases are motor
vehicle crashes, falls and motorcycle
crashes. Dell Children's Medical
Center lists the same top two causes
and put blunt trauma to the head as the
third leading cause.
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