Blair Township Emergency Medical Services will receive $64,000 through FEMA and the Assistance to Firefighters Grant to purchase three new 12-lead EKG Monitor/Defibrillators.
The new cardiac monitors will allow Blair Township paramedics to rapidly evaluate and treat cardiac rhythm disturbances as well as recognize and treat STEMI-related heart attacks. The monitors also have the ability to measure oxygen, carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide levels in the blood stream.
The total project cost is about $80,000. FEMA will pay 80 percent of the cost ($64,000) and Blair Township EMS will pay the 20 percent matching funds ($16,000).
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Otsego Memorial Hospital received $286,648 in funds in 2009 from the Otsego Memorial Hospital Foundation. In partnership with the OMH Foundation, the Otsego Memorial Hospital Auxiliary contributed $35,000 toward the 2009 goal.
Some of the programs that received funding are the Diabetes Management Program, "Move Smart Eat Right" and the "Reach Out and Read Literacy Program."
Some of the equipment purchased by grants from the foundation include a new hearing testing machine for Family Practice, new bed comforters for McReynolds Hall, a HUGS Pediatric Security System upgrade for the Med/Surg unit that supplements the HUGS system located in the Birthing Center, a portable X-ray machine and various surgical equipment.
-- Compiled by Stephanie Beach
