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Show 2-Way radio equipment installed at Valley View Medical Center I ''''' rf ""ii r J Equipment was Installed at the Valley View Medical Center In Cedar City this past week which will make it possible for the hospital to be connected with the first state-wide communications com-munications net with all public pub-lic ambulances and hospitals. Two-way radio equipment provided through Intermountaln Regional Medical Program, and is expected to help eliminate needless deaths that have oc-cured oc-cured in rural Utah because there has been no communications communica-tions between ambulance and hospital emergency rooms. Although the system Is not complete the Valley View Medical Center is now prepared with the capabilities of Joining that net-work emergency system. sys-tem. It is pointed out that Utahns in rural areas have had a four times greater chance of dying from accident or illness than those In urban areas. Before June only nine of the State's 41 hospitals were equipped equip-ped with radio communications. And the nine were, Drage added, ad-ded, located between Ogden and Polnt-of-the-Mountala The Installation of the .two-way .two-way radio system at Valley View Medical Center will eventually enable ambulance personnel to communicate with hospital emergency physicians and nurses. The Installation has been made at the main nurses station at the hospital. The system also allows, on a limited basis, communications between hospitals on emergency cases, according to Wm. Whipple, Whip-ple, hospital administrator. When the system is complete in the state, with Installation on both hospitals and ambulance ambu-lance service vehicles It will enable en-able ambulance technicians to be advised on what to do for accident victims and emergency personnel at the hospitals can be kept abreast of patient's condition while they are en-route en-route to the hospital. IRMP expects that each Utah hospital will have apparatus to communicate with all ambulances ambu-lances serving that hospital by mid July. And any ambulance will be able to communicate with every hospital In the state, NEW EQUIPMENT. Phyllis Weir, ward clerk at the Valley View Medical Center tests new two-way radio equippment installed to meet emergency needs between be-tween hospital and ambulances and between hospitals |