EMS Week – Caring for our Community EDUCATION

As we celebrate EMS week, we can’t help reflect on all of the challenges of the past 12 months.  In the realm of education, we as educators face a variety of unique challenges.  During the COVID pandemic, the struggle and stress of teaching became clearly evident.  The countries whole education delivery system was challenged.  Here at Faxton-St. Luke’s, the education team showed their love and passion for the profession by rising to the unique challenges.  I am very proud of the team of men and women who did not let a national crisis stand in the way of continuing to deliver a quality education to our students.  These instructors needed to develop and deliver education to our students in way that have been unprecedented in the past.  They changed a classroom style of teaching into a web-based program standing in front of an empty classroom and delivering lectures and perform very small lab groups while adhering to the strictest of infection control.  Many of them gave of their time to assure they were still producing a quality student who will be delivering care to our community.  I am pleased to say that not one of our classes were cancelled and that classes that were in session on the onset of the pandemic in March of 2020 were completed and completed on time.  In addition, we continued at the end of 2020 and into 2021 to offer EMS classes to assure our community that when they needed EMS they would be there.  I would like to acknowledge the following instructors who deserve a huge thank you. 

Melissa Lockwood

Robert Paddock, Sr.

David Paddock

Erik Merrell

W. Joseph Taylor

Adam Shaver

Chad Smith

Ryan Ward

The education department at Faxton-St. Luke’s Healthcare EMS Education owe you a great debt of appreciation for all of your hard work and efforts.  You are examples of what EMS does everyday.  You have taken a bad situation and made it better.