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About The Blue Mountain eagle. (John Day, Or.) 1972-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 27, 2016)
Blue Mountain Hospital District Emergency Medical Services Meet our EMS Staff John Day: Kim Smarr, Kara Kohfield, Mary Vargas, Mimi Maddess, Rebekah Rand, Craig Maxwell, Marsha Pereira, Errol McPheeters, Chad Lauer, Pete Uhler, Jim Carpenter, Greg Lloyd, Cassidy Lemons, Amy May and Dawn Gray. Prairie City Area: Anna Gillihan, Johni McHatton, Kenny Gillihan, Chris Camarena and Lee Teague. Monument Area: Bryan Vogt, Carolyn Thomas, Stacy Robinson-Cox, Laura Thomas, Heather Riggs, Lorraine Vogt and Carrie Jewell. Seneca Area: Diane Browning, Mindy Walker and Linda Pettyjohn. Long Creek: Myla Coley, Neita Brockway, Amy Kreger, Craig Palmer, Joe Gibson and Ed Studtman. The Blue Mountain Hospital Ambulance provides standbys for high risk law enforcement calls, Fire Departments, in addition to providing standbys for Fair, Rodeos and running events. We assist at the County Health Fair and our Community education reaches out to all such as high school CPR classes and child education on ambulances and first Aid. EMS agencies work closely with other emergency response agencies - including police, fire and 9-1-1 communications - to provide rapid medical care and safe transportation to those who are ill or injured. We are able to provide Critical Care with our two trained Critical Care paramedics as well. They also play a significant role in our nation’s response to natural and manmade disasters. If you are involved in a car accident, house fire, experience a medical emergency, or are evacuated to an emergency shelter, you will likely find yourself being cared for by one of these highly-trained professionals. For medical conditions, Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT) and Paramedics can provide most of the initial and subsequent treatments that an emergency department would. For traumatic injuries, we do vehicle extraction while making sure our primary responsibility is to immediately perform interventions that correct life-threatening conditions and then provide rapid transportation to the hospital for definitive care, while managing the patient’s pain. BMH EMS also provides community First Aid and CPR education and advanced classes for our hospital district employees. For more information call 541-575-1311 FAMILY HEALTH GUIDE 2016 || 3
