The North Chittenango Fire Department is hosting a EMS training on Wednesday June 28 at 7PM.  Brian Falise will present on Fire Rehab Non Core CME’s will be available.   North Chittenango Fire Station 623 Lakeport Rd. Chittenango NY

Both EAVES and Durhamville ReHab trailers will be on display

2016 Hart Award Winner, Anthony Pagliaro

For those that didn’t know Deb Hart, she, along with a few others, helped create the Midstate Region and was one of the early Midstate Director’s. She inspired cooperation and tirelessly worked to improve out EMS System. She stood for all that was good about EMS and the Midstate Region.

This award is a regional award given to a provider, agency or organization that represents all that is good about EMS and Midstate specifically. In the past, this award has been given to groups of people that worked together to save a life, civilians that have made a difference EMS, and EMS team members that have left a mark on the Midstate Region. This year we recognize a provider that has been a rock, a positive influence and a guiding light through unbelievable hardships.

Like Deb herself, this years award winner has faced one hurdle after another. Also like Deb, he has never given up, never throw in the towel. Instead, he has a way of just facing each hurdle as they came to him, always looking for the light at the end of the tunnel.

Ask around and you will find that not one, single bad word has ever been said about this person. Not one complaint or issue. He always finds the good in others and in turn, people seem to the good in him. No one in the history of Midstate has enjoyed a reputation as good as this years Hart Award winner.

He started out as a volunteer fire fighter, becoming an EMT and then a paramedic. Our Hart Award winner is also a respected EMS leader in our region. This award truly is Midstate’s best of the best. He has become an inspiration to our entire EMS community, please congratulate this year’s Hart Award recipient, Anthony Pagliaro.

Genesee Street is expected to be closed tomorrow in front of

St. Elizabeth Medical Center:

June 13, 2017

11:00 AM – 2:30PM Both front entrance will be closed

Reroute to Ballentyne Brae Street side entrance to Hospital

St. Elizabeth’s 2016 Trauma Award

Around 7pm on April 17th, 2016, a small plane carrying a pilot and 2 other passengers crashed just after take off in Westmoreland. Central Oneida County Volunteer Ambulance responded to this accident. A job well done by all!

Present to receive this award were several of the COCVAC crew members who participated in this call this call: Dan Verminski, Jenna Illingsworth, Brent Rosky, Steve Dziura and Vinny Ouimette.

Midstate 2016 Communication Specialist of the Year, Bernadette White

Say “Emergency Services” and most people think of firefighter, police and usually EMS providers. But, Emergency Services is so much more. The most forgotten player in our emergency services family is the Public Safety Telecommunicator. “NOT A DISPATCHER” is kinda like, “NOT AN AMBULANCE DRIVER.” Today, managing a multidisciplinary system is an awesome responsibility that is not to be underestimated. Imagine having to fire chief, police chief and paramedic all within two minutes.

Dependable, consistent and great common sense are used to describe her and her work ethic. She represents the best in 911 communications.

Please join us in thanking our Midstate Communication Specialist of the Year, Madison County Communicator, Bernadette White.

Peter Giesse, Midstate’s 2016 ALS Provider of the Tear

Asa member of a volunteer fire department, we are often asked to do more and more. Dedicate more and more time. To keep giving and giving. Oh, and can you cover 90% of our ems calls.

This year we are going to recognize a gentleman who gives and gives, then helps out some more. A volunteer for over 2 decades serving as a firefighter, EMT, Deputy Chief, Critical Care Technician, husband and father. As if that wasn’t enough, just to make sure his skills stay sharp, he works one day a week at a busy ambulance service.

Although he works the family farm 24/7, it is not uncommon for him to stop mid-job to respond to a life or death EMS call and then return to the farm to finish whatever it was he was doing before the tones went off.

When your fire chief and EMS employer both use words like dedication, role model and mentor, you must be doing something right and leaving a lasting impression.

Please join us in recognizing Critical Care Tech, farmer and friend, Westernville Fire Department member, Peter Giesse

Midstate’s 2016 Instructor of the Year, Dick Bishop (Dave and Bob Paddock Accepting)

We are truly blessed in the Midstate Region to have some of the best EMS Instructors. It is easy to see how and why we so few issues in EMS given the caliber of our instructors.

Professional ethics and never settling for second best, this year we recognize a true education professional. Retiring after a career in education, this year we recognize him in his second teaching career.

As an educator, you never really know just how many lives you touch. Educating over 175 Basic students and 110 of them in the past 6 years is an accomplishment!

To memorize airway, breathing and bleeding is simple, to impart i your students, the highest standard of care, compassion and dedication is what a great teacher does.

Juggling a busy schedule including 911 dispatching, volunteer fire fighting, EMT instructor, husband, father and one very proud grandfather is not easy. Yet if a student needs extra help, he s there.

Announcing his second retirement and after teaching EMS classes for over a decade, it is bittersweet that we say thanks to the Midstate Instructor of the Year, Richard Bishop.

Midstate’s Registered Nurse of Excellence, Jan DeRocker

Becoming a registered nurse in 1973, this year we are recognizing one of this regions most dedicated and truly caring nurses.

Instrumental in county EMS Education, working on EMS Quality Assurance committees, an active member of the Midstate REMAC, she is never afraid to speak up for EMS providers, nursing staff or simply what’s best for the patient. She has the unique ability to recognize the importance of both sides of the hospital door.

Her “open door” policy and willingness listen to any suggestion makes her one of out approachable team members.

Always looking to foster relationships between the hospital and EMS, she has created a positive, nonjudgemental culture between nursing and EMS.

Anyone that has had the pleasure of working with her has probably already figured out that Jan DeRocker is this years Midstate Registered Nurse of Excellence.

Midstate’s 2016 Excellence in Quality and Safety Recipient Matthew Yelton

This year we regognize providers and agencies for the day-to-day care they provide. This year’s Excellence in Quality and Safety award recipient is no exception.

We all strive to provide quality care and this year we are recognizing an EMS provider that truly lives to improve the quality of what we all do.

From his very first EMT class, he has never be satisfied knowing just the basics. He is always questioning, wanting to know the cause And effect of diseases and what his treatments are doing for his patients. It is not uncommon for him to constantly research and seek out new information. And he is always sharing what he’s learned with everyone from firefighters, police officers, other EMT’s, nurses and an occasional doctor.

Starting out as a volunteer fire fighter in a small town, he then became an EMT and found what would be his true calling. He has since moved on to be a critical care tech and eventually a paramedic. Today he is also a paramedic preceptor and is very likely to be seen discussing, debating, teaching and explaining ems practices to EMT students of all levels, or to anyone else who wants to know the “whys and what’s” of EMS.

His agencies all recognize his commitment to quality and are proud to call him of their own. So, please join us in thanking Matthew Yelton for his commitment to EMS Quality.

Midstate’s 2016 Behind the Scene’s Award Winner Karen Paige

Each year we present awards to our regional agencies, providers and educators. To make a system like Midstate work it requires coordination, cooperation and an unbelievable amount of behind the scenes detail work.

Our regional EMS Program Agency is under the direction and support of the Mohawk Valley Health System and we are fortunate to be working in a system that recognizes both the importance of EMS and technology.

Years ago Leslie Myers suggested to us that a recertification option should be provided on-line. She convinced Tony Salce that it would be a good idea and she started out on her mission. Leslie worked with the state to make this option a reality. Thanks in part to this program, Midstate is enjoying a higher than state average of retained providers. We are one of only 2 programs in NYS that have been approved to do a complete on-line recertification program.

We are constantly adding material and expanding the use of our Net Learning system. Net Learning is a sophisticated, secure and complex computer system that allows us to participate in the state recertification.

While Leslie is good at the system and is responsible for it, this year we would like to thank the real brain power behind the system. Frankly, this person has allowed for hundreds of Midstate EMS providers to rectify in the comfort of their own homes, on their own schedule.

Maintaining the system is an arduous task requiring a lot of technical expertise, dedication and time. Without the watchful eye and technical support provided by our Midstate 2016 Behind the Scene’s award winner, Midstate would NOT be able to provide this program.

On behalf of all the EMS providers that have used the on-line program, and the agencies they work with, please congratulate this years winner, Karen Paige.