CONCORD (CBS) – Massachusetts Nationwide Guard women and men carried out chest compressions on CPR dummies at a Brewster Ambulance depot, Tuesday. The media bought an inside take a look at a few of the coaching roughly 500 troopers are at the moment present process to assist the Commonwealth’s confused healthcare system. Beginning Monday, they had been deployed to 55 acute care hospitals and 12 ambulance corporations.
At Brewster, the Guard will largely be in command of transportation.
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“They’re going to be actually working the ambulance, serving to with loading the stretcher, and transferring sufferers from one mattress to a different,” stated Domenic Corey, Brewster’s Director of Operations.
To arrange, Brewster helped the Guard women and men brush up on CPR Coaching. Then, they had been delivered to a coned ambulance course to learn to drive the automobiles.
“It’s unprecedented what we’ve been doing and I’m very comfortable that we are able to proceed to do the mission like this,” stated Nationwide Guard Specialist Paul Nigro.
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Emerson Hospital, in Harmony, will obtain help from 5 members of the Nationwide Guard beginning Wednesday. Chief Nursing Officer Mark Mahnfeldt says they are going to be utilized in non-clinical roles.
“Like transporting sufferers. Being on the entrance desk to assist with affected person and household circulate,” Mahnfeldt stated.
Mahnfeldt says Emerson is experiencing the identical quantity of sufferers that different healthcare services are seeing. He says his exhausted employees will welcome the assistance.
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“They’re going by means of a very powerful time proper now. That is emotionally difficult. It’s the third wave they’ve gone by means of and they’re getting drained,” Mahnfeldt stated.
