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.PARAMEDIC NEWS
Opportunities for paramedics related to Manitoba's COVID-19 response
There are multiple opportunities available for manitoba paramedics who want to contribite to manitoba’s covid-19 response. Paramedics are required in both traditional and non-traditional paramedic roles throughout the system so we can more effectively meet patients needs.
Are you a retired paramedic or a paramedic who is able to work additional hours?
The greatest needs currently exist in the following areas:
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- Greatest needs are in those that are COVID positive.
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- Measures are in place to limit the spread and protect residents and workers which include provision of appropriate PPE, increased environmental cleaning and disinfection, cancelation of group activities, increased screening, cohorting residents if required.
- Testing Sites
- Alternative Isolation Accommodation
Opportunities exist for full time, part time and casual within the COVID19 Casual Pool. Assignment can be for a short time or for a longer period.
There are multiple opportunities available throughout Manitoba including Northern and Rural Manitoba.
COVID19 Opportunities are posted on: https://careers.wrha.mb.ca/
For further inquiries and/or to forward your resume, contact:
[email protected]
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.CHAPTER NEWS
City of Ottawa hires its security manager as new paramedic chief
CBC
Ottawa has hired a new chief for its paramedic service, after its former chief retired earlier this year. Pierre Poirier, who was most recently the city's manager of security and emergency management, immediately takes over as the permanent chief of the Ottawa Paramedic Service, according to a city memo Tuesday to the mayor and council.
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Squamish man featured in car commercial honouring first responders
The Squamish Chief
A Squamish critical care flight paramedic features prominently in a just-released, Thanksgiving-themed Volkswagen Canada marketing campaign honouring front-line workers. Local Scott Ramey was chosen during a cross-country search for Canadian Volkswagen owners who "went above and beyond to help others during COVID-19."
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Shared Health wants 2 million cut from ambulance budget
Winnipeg Sun
Winnipeg Mayor Brian Bowman says Shared Health wants the City to cut $2 million from Winnipeg’s ambulance service — Shared Health says the Mayor is misleading residents. The announcement comes on the heels of two Winnipeg Sun reports saying ambulance paramedics have been pushed to the brink with an 80% burnout rate due to insufficient resources, which haven’t been topped-up since 2011.
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Red Deerians urged to speak up for keeping ambulance dispatching local
Red Deer Advocate
A provincial plan to consolidate emergency services was called “foolish,” “short-sighted” and “crazy” by emotional city councillors on Tuesday. They urged citizens to look out for their own interests by helping reverse a cost-saving decision to move ambulance dispatch out of this area to a regional hub in Calgary — or beyond.
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Six Nations Paramedics remember
Turtle Island
Paramedic Memorial Bell makes its way to Six Nations by Josh Giles writer they remembered. Paramedics who lost their lives in service to their community. Like Dustin Dagenais, 34, of Moose Factory, Ontario.
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Quebec paramedics being called in for reinforcement at COVID-19 screening clinics
CTV News
Paramedics from several cities in Quebec are helping the province's health networks' COVID-19 screening activities. In Montreal, their role will be to ''support COVID-19 screening interventions in the context of an outbreak, for example in an elementary school, a CHSLD or in a neighborhood, '' Urgences Sante announced in a news release.
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Paramedics may be part of palliative-care study
The Intelligencer
The Hastings-Quinte joint emergency services committee has endorsed a palliative care study which, if approved, could allow paramedics to help palliative patients remain at home. Committee members met Oct. 14 at Hastings County headquarters and online. They recommended county council support the submission of the Palliative Care Quality Improvement Study.
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Address markers on vacant land help first responders find rural properties quickly: Clarington
Durham Radio News
The Municipality of Clarington is partnering up with Durham Region and Farm 911: The Emily Project in an effort to get more address markers on vacant land. Farm 911: The Emily Project was founded in 2014, after Emily Trudeau, 7, died in a farming accident. First responders were delayed in helping because they couldn’t immediately find the rural Tweed property.
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Paramedic off-load delays costing money and potentially lives, new report says
Ottawa Matters
The Ottawa Paramedic Service continues to be bogged down by offload delays at Ottawa area hospital emergency departments, a report from the service says. The report, which will be presented at the community and protective services committee on Thursday, October 15, says it has recorded 53,663 hours in offload delays at Ottawa hospitals last year. This, they add, represents an average of 147 lost hours every day or six paramedic units from the road in hospital for the 24-hour period.
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STARS Air Ambulance seeks more community donations
Lacombe Online
Starting on Thursday, October 15th Sunny 94 and LacombeOnline will be hosting a two-day STARS Air Ambulance Critical Care on the Air Radiothon. The radio station will be airing interviews with patients who have been saved by the red helicopter ambulance in an effort to fundraise for the organization.
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These essential workers got the best surprise for Thanksgiving (VIDEO)
Daily Hive
This Thanksgiving, Volkswagen Group Canada Inc. (VGCA) surprised essential workers across the country with heartfelt gifts they’d never forget. Dedicating its third-annual Volksgiving to Canadian frontline workers, with the help of the VW Owner community, the automaker received over 1,100 nominations for those who have gone above and beyond to help Canadians and their community during the pandemic.
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On-scene care saves more lives than transporting cardiac arrest patients to hospital
The University of British Columbia
If someone experiences cardiac arrest — a condition in which the heart suddenly stops beating — what’s the best way to keep that person alive? A new study led by UBC researchers, and recently published in JAMA, compared the survival rates of two different strategies used by paramedics when treating cardiac arrests: 1) performing resuscitation at the scene, or 2) transporting the patient to hospital with resuscitation en route.
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Training grant for Kaslo paramedic
Nelson Star
A paramedic in Kaslo will be getting further training thanks to help from the Regional District of Central Kootenay. The worker will receive $3,700 to help fund their education, after a vote in favour of the grant passed the RDCK board of director’s meeting in September.
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Klein calls for new ambulance service contract
Winnipeg Sun
Coun. Kevin Klein (Charleswood-Tuxedo-Westwood) is calling on the City to expedite a new agreement with Shared Health for ambulance services in Winnipeg. “We know for a fact that overtime is increasing every year,” he said. “We know that this year alone in 2020, we are on target to be over $1 million in more overtime. Members are stressed. We know that we haven’t added one new ambulance since 2011.”
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Canada's new 'Area X.O,' complete with drone and special 5G van
Drone DJ
Canada had a big announcement today. It unveiled what it’s calling “Area X.O” — a “futureplex” of innovation located at what had been known as the L5 track for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAV). Ottawa is committing $7 million to the venture, which hopes to create 200 jobs and ultimately lead to the Canadian manufacturing of zero-emission, electric vehicles. And yes, all of this has something to do with drones.
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Head of union for Winnipeg's paramedics challenges city, province to rethink emergency response
CBC
Paramedic Ryan Woiden wants the city and provincial governments to take a big step back and re-imagine emergency services in Winnipeg. "We need to have someone to take a look at this and get the right kind of system," said Woiden, the president of Manitoba Government and General Employees' Union Local 911, which represents approximately 350 ambulance paramedics in Winnipeg.
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'More than a piece of metal': Nunavut community gets its first ambulance
Prince George Matters
The summer sealift typically brings everything from housewares to heavy equipment to Pond Inlet in Nunavut. But this year, on Aug. 28, the ship dropped off something the remote community of about 1,600 on the northern shore of Baffin Island has never had before — an ambulance. The sealift brings what planes can't to the territory's fly-in-only communities, including bulk items, non-perishable goods and vehicles.
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