Show Hospital To Include Volunteers In Drill I Members of the South Davis Firemen's Association wh who 0 also operate the privately- privately owned ambulance service in this end of the county will be included ud- ud ed in the next unscheduled hospital hospital hospital hos hos- pital emergency drill accordIng according according accord accord- ing to hospital administrator William Moore REPRESENTATIVES of the South Davis Community Hospital Hospi HospI- tal and the Firemen's Association Association Association tion met last Friday night to discuss means of closer cooperation cooperation cooperation coop coop- between the two facIlIties facilities facilities ties especially where emergency emergency emergency emer emer- gency procedures were im im- im Approximately 43 persons at attended attended attended at- at tended the meeting Including Dr W W. W Lynn Richards chief of staff Dr John Olson head of the emergency room Harold Pope chairman of the hospital board AMONG AMON G the points discussed was the necessity of closer correlation correlation correlation cor cor- relation between the hospital staff and the ambulance drivers drivers drivers ers I so the latter will know emergency room procedures and policies Mr Moore said printed procedures procedures procedures pro pro- will be distributed to staff nurses and ambulance drivers service In-service t training r a i n in g sessions will be set up for the nurses SOUTH D DAVIS A V I SCorn Community Hospital which went some financial revamping in order to make it complete complete- completely a ly independent operation of the physicians who staff it is an accredited hospital Accreditation recommends a minimum of two unscheduled disaster drills annually Previously Previously Previously Pre Pre- Mr Moore said when the drills were called only the hospital staff participated In Inthe Inthe Inthe the future the ambulance drivers drivers drivers ers in south Davis will be In in- in cl HE EXPLAINED that In the case of widespread emergency need burns are taken to one area fractures to another in internal internal internal in- in injuries to another etc He told the volunteer ambulance ambulance lance drivers dri vers that in working with volume on a disaster basis the emergency section could easily take care of 25 cases immediately and could add room for more with a little planning DARRELL McIlrath president president I dent of the Association said ambulance service last year answered calls calls' callson on emergencIes emergencies emergencies emer emer- ranging from suicides and shootings to train car-train accidents accidents acci accidents acci- acci dents and auto accidents One Onehundred Onehundred Onehundred hundred seven ninety-seven of the calls caBs were brought to South Davis Community Hospital he said Others went as far as Cottonwood Cottonwood Cot Cot- in one direction and Ogden in the other lk Ik I I |