Howler Siren Use

After trying out the system, MEMS is now in the process of adding the "Howler" siren to our emergency warning system. Each remount will have the addition of the Howler as a standard feature. We are currently retrofitting the supervisor's vehicles. Here is a brief description of how to operate the system.


The Howler siren is to be used just as you would use your air horn. It is set up on an 8 second timer so once activated it will run and then time out and shut off. The switch is located next to the air horn switch. While the siren is activated just push the Howler button when needed. It will change tones automatically as you change them with your siren. If you want to deactivate it before it times out simply push the switch again. Howler provides deep, low frequency tones, which are able to penetrate other vehicles, alerting drivers and pedestrians of your approach. Howler is not a replacement to the vehicle's primary siren; Howler adds a minimum eight second penetrating burst of low frequency siren sound for use in heavy traffic, intersections or other high ambient noise conditions.


Any questions please feel free to come by the Shop and we will demo it for you.

Thanks, “The Shop”

420

You may remember that 420 was hit hard in the right rear just before remount. Jason Henderson and Clay Brannon were on scene when a mustang hit them at @ 50-60MPH. I just wanted you to see the actual damage to the unit. All in all is was not bad for that speed. Jason and Clay were a bit sore, but suffered no other injury. This is why we buy Excellance, better protection for crews.

Happy EMS week!!

NDMS Drill 2010

Friday Fish Fry

Friday we will be frying fish at the shop from 11:00 to 13:00. This to cap off EMS week, as well as honor Excellance (who is buying the fish) in honor of 506 being their 1000th remount. Come by and grab some food and say to the Excellance staff. Happy EMS week!!

EMS Parade of lights

Today the parade of lights was held at the State Capitol. Ambulance and rescue vehicles from around the state went from War Memorial Stadium to the capitol in honor of this week. Our latest unit 506, which happens to be Excellance’s 1000 remount, made it debut. MEMS own honor guard posted the colors for the ceremony

MEMS 2010 Golf Tournament

EMS week continues, with the annual MEMS golf tournament
Pam McCain & Dan Harrison were the winners this year, and the tournament was held at Hindman Golf Course. Big turnout with lots of fun to be had by all……

Pictures Link

We have promoted two new Lieutenants

Charles Malin will be taking over as LT of the Bike team


Mike Ghidotti will be the new LT for the honor guard.



Please help us congratulate these guys.

Drawing winners

In honor of EMS week, today we are drawing every hour from 09:00 to 21:00 for prizes.

09:00- Jessica Whitaker won an Afghan


10:00 winner Fred Sterling won a travel mug


11:00 winner Pete Pitre won a MEMS umbrella

12:00 winner Barbara Dollarhide wins a MEMS back pack


13:00 Ralph Perales wins MEMS pen set


14:00 Kendra Lewis won a travel mug

15:00 Shelly Antone won a camo chair

16:00 George Hrenchir won a silver back pack

17:00 Kristy Dean won a thermos
(No picture available works in communications)

18:00 Stacy Hock won a lunch tote
(No picture available new rookie)

19:00 Larmon VanWinkle won a travel mug

20:00 Tommy(Mark) Shuffield won a camo duffel bag

21:00 Brandi Johnson won a blue chair


Congratulations to all the winners !!

MEMS SAFE DRIVER AWARD

Hey guys, as most of you know the Driving Committee has been reviewing accidents reports and “paddling bottoms” for a while now. Well in effort to “rubs bottoms” of those who are excellent drives; the MEMS Driving Committee is initiating a new program to spotlight and award for good driving. Below are the guidelines, please take a moment to have look. The Driving Committee is looking forward to rewarding the drivers who standout………..



MEMS SAFE DRIVER AWARD



GUIDELINES:



Open to all employees who drive a company vehicle a minimum of 550 miles each month.

Information will be gathered from the Driver Safety Summary and the MEMS Driving Committee records.

Top 25 driver’s names, meeting the requirements, will be placed in a random drawing.

· Winners must be in good standing with driving committee by not having any driving incidents in the past year from date of drawing.

Driving incidents are defined as any backing incident or minor/to major chargeable incident.

· Winners cannot have more than one backing tone per 100 miles driven.

· Winners cannot have any over speed counts.


Grand prize winner will receive $50.00 cash.

Three other runner-ups will be drawn for $10.00 food gift cards.

Winners will be notified by Driving Committee representative and picture made for Monitor and posting.

Kevin Crosby will be the Driving Committee representative for the MEMS SAFE DRIVER AWARD.

Getting Clear About our Standards

You have probably heard by now of the “crack down” on ACLS and PALS, let me give you my side of the story ;-) I approached this year with a major project in mind, the development of a leadership program for MEMS. This has two facets the first involves a structure for employees who are identified formal or informal leaders, (More on this facet later). The second involves developing a program for our medical skill set.

I came across a recent article by Barry Tanenbaum who wrote, “Some of the best athletes in the world have personal coaches, why shouldn’t you have a coach for your career? Even Tiger Woods, unquestionably the best golfer in the world has a personal coach. No matter how good you are there is always the possibility to improve, excel, and take your game to the next level.”
Coaching is an idea and principle that we want to bring to MEMS. In order to sharpen our edge, go to the next level or what ever your word picture is, we first need to get clear about our expectations.

The training department, QA and several field medics met to begin to answer the question, “what should we expect to be the skills of a MEMS Medic, and how do we measure it”. The first step towards this goal is the development of a check off much like national registry for ACLS and PALS. It covers what ACLS and PALS states as mandatory pass fail, as well as what MEMS holds as its expectations. These would be published as a way of communicating the expectation.

Some have asked, “what do you do with those who fail” I answer simply, we have hired a great staff, and if someone is having trouble we will work as a coach to determine the area needed for improvement and develop a plan to get them there.

This is still in development, we will be holding operations meetings in June to show our work and seek input, after all we are working on OUR expectations.

Greg

EMS Week May 16-22

EMS week is May 16-22

Here are a few of the Things that we have planned.

15th MEMS 26th annual family Reunion. This year it is held at the Shiner Temple (the same place as the 25th picnic) We will have food, volleyball, music, unit displays for the kids, games etc..

16th- We heave reserved the pavilion at Dickey Steven field. Two free tickets for each employee and $10.00 for each additional ticket (see sign up for more details) the tickets include admission, and food.

17th- Drawing through out the day for prizes. ALL employees in good standing will be eligible to win.

18th- MEMS golf tournament. See Louis for details

19th- The parade of lights to the State Capitol. This is in honor of National EMS week. EMS service from around the state will be in Little Rock that day for a special presentation at the Capitol. MEMS own Honor Guard will be presenting colors.

20th- We have to do some work ;-) We will be having an NDMS drill at the airport.

21st- Cook out at MEMS to celebrate unit 506 coming home. This happens to be Excellance’s 1000 remount. They will be in town with us that day to celebrate

All of these activities are designed to say thank you for all you do.

YOU ARE APPRECIATED!