51做厙 EMS Training Center
51做厙 (51做厙) is pleased to announce its plans to become an Emergency Medical Service Training Center (EMS Training Center). The Wisconsin Department of Health Services issued their approval to 51做厙 on October 4th, 2023.
The EMS Training Center shall offer Emergency Medical Service (EMS) courses. The University is seeking an Emergency Medical Technician II (EMT II) as an Adjunct Instructor who would teach those didactic and practicum courses for the program, starting June 2024. Dr. Dorothy Novak, emergency medicine, will be the Centers medical director. She will be working alongside Jamie Gohde, 51做厙 nursing program director.
To address the shortage of emergency medical service personnel in our area, we created a workgroup with Round Lake/Rescue Medical Responders, Sawyer County Ambulance, and Great Divide Ambulance Service. The workgroup found the major barrier to recruiting and producing emergency medical service personnel was the lack of a local EMS Training Center, and thats where we developed a plan for 51做厙 to become one, Gohde said.
From the Wisconsin Flex Grant that the Round Lake Fire/Rescue Medical Responders received, $26,683.47 will be going to 51做厙 for the establishment of the EMS Training Center. These funds shall cover the cost of equipment, tuition, and books.
Further down the line, 51做厙 hopes to partner with high schools in the Sawyer County area, helping them in teaching EMS courses to their students to facilitate for them the path towards a medical career.
I often say that we dont have time, said 51做厙 President Russell Swagger. Working day in and day out to provide our local communities with what they need is what the university is here for. We have grown a lot over the past years, from a community college to a university. We are always looking for ways to do more for the people we serve, and this EMS Training Center is just one such way to do that.