St. Vincent ’s Medical Center Takes Emergency Preparedness to a Higher Level

BRIDGEPORT, Connecticut – For St. Vincent’s Medical Center, safety and emergency preparedness are critical to its role in serving the Bridgeport community. St. Vincent’s continually evaluates and assesses the needs of the community at its sites of care to ensure they have the proper safety-related resources and protocols in place. This month, St. Vincent’s further strengthened its relationship with the Bridgeport Police Department, while improving its own resources to enhance emergency preparedness. Protecting Bridgeport’s Finest Earlier this week, St. Vincent’s Medical Center Foundation presented the Bridgeport Police Department (BPD) with 400 individual bleeding control kits for its police officers. In the event that an officer suffers a gunshot wound or is otherwise injured in the line of duty, these kits will enable them to apply either self-aid or “buddy” aid to their partners. The kits contain a tourniquet, wound packing gauze, a pressure dressing, and chest seal. The Foundation offered their assistance after learning that the BPD did not have the funding in its budget to purchase the kits – valued at $40,000. “The Foundation and the Bridgeport Police Department enjoy a deep relationship that has grown from being partners on the front line,” said Dianne Auger, President & CEO, St. Vincent’s Medical Center Foundation and Senior Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer, St. Vincent’s Medical Center. “For years they’ve been a loyal ...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: Patient Care Industry News Source Type: news