New Shop Employee

We want to welcome Tommy Hood to MEMS. Tommy comes to us from South West Hospital where he worked as an ambassador. Many have commented on Tommy’s positive attitude and infectious smile. He has already gotten the shop cleaner and more organized than it has been in a long time. (Kevin and Bobo have been swamped)
When you see him stop in and say HI.

Some changes in the works.

1. Ron Spychalski is now in the QA department. He will be working with Stewart on getting our dispatch accredited, as well as helping to develop training modules etc.. he is sharing a newly furnished office with Mack and Phyllis.

2. We have been given the permission to hire an Admin Supervisor. The goal of this position is to take some of the load of the day sierra so they can spend more time in the field interacting with crews, hospitals etc.. This will be a Captain position that will handled such things as, unit assignments, complaints, keys etc.. We are currently working out the details, and will be posting the position as soon as next week.

3. The Supervisor’s truck was budgeted to be replaced in 2008. The new truck was ordered last week. It is a ¾ ton Chevrolet 4X4, extended cab with a long bed like 955. It will take a little time to get it in, and configured. The old 954 will be used for pulling the command trailers, MCIs, SORT, as well as a back up supervisor vehicle.

4. We are building a plan to handle our supplies better. We are working on a system that tracks our assets such as handhelds, monitors, fuel cards etc.. more efficiently. You will be hearing more on this very soon.

MEMS Picnic

The annual MEMS Picnic will be this Saturday June 7th at the Elks Park off of Crystal Hill

Registeration for the horseshoe tournament will be at 11AM with tournament to start at 12:00 entry is $5.00 per person.

Barbeque to be ready at 1:30.

Directions

Bring the kids and come on out!!

MEMS Golf 2008

The annual MEMS Golf tournament was held on May 14th. The director of this event, Louis Moore gives the following report of the days activities:

Total entries 28
Winners for the 2008 duffer’s cup. Robert Darr & Darrell Feagan
No deaths reported again this year, even though Bobby Blasingame had a small accident on his way to the tournament


Thank you Louis for that informative report ;-)

Link to pictures

New collars coming!!

As of Thursday June 5 2008 MEMS will move to the Ambu Perfit ACE (adjustable collar extrication) c-collar

We have chosen this move for several reasons: cost, ease of use, inventory, guaranteed fit, to name a few.

If you have not been in-serviced see either a supervisor or the training department. All 'old' style collars will be removed from the units as well as inventory and shipped back for credit after this week.