Saturday, 5 December 2020
There has been a few incidents with certain nasal airways getting dislodged and causing blockages. Please click the links below to see the SBAR from Sentara and a PDF poster that was created regarding this issue. Feel free to distribute as you see fit.
During a beautiful afternoon at Harbor Park in Norfolk on June 16, 2019, the Tidewater EMS Council presented ten regional EMS awards and a special lifetime achievement award. The awards presentation was part of the council's annual EMS family day at the ballpark attended by some 400 responders, dispatchers, emergency department staff and their families.
Read more: Tidewater EMS Council announces 2019 regional EMS award winners
Tidewater EMS Council Presents
2021 Tidewater Healthcare Education Expo
Sentara Nightingale Regional Air Ambulance transitioned from its original ground helipad at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital to a rooftop array 296 feet above grade
on May 1, 2019. The new rooftop site includes a 45’ x 45’ pad exclusively for Nightingale and an adjacent 65’ x 65’ pad for other air ambulances in the region and U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Navy helicopters, which called at the hospital 21 times in 2018.
Read more: Sentara Nightingale Regional Air Ambulance moves to the roof, adopts IFR routes
Dear Healthcare Community, 
The Tidewater Emergency Medical Services Council takes great pleasure in announcing that we have selected Stephanie M. Hackett to serve as the Hampton Roads Metropolitan Medical Response System (HRMMRS) Program Coordinator.
Read more: Stephanie Hackett to serve as the HRMMRS Program Coordinator
| EMS Medical Operations Committee - TEMS Wed Dec 09 @12:00PM - 02:00PM |
| Virtual Joint TEMS/PEMS OMD Committee Meeting Thu Dec 10 @12:00PM - 03:00PM |
| TEMS STEMI PI Committee Meeting (Virtual) Thu Dec 10 @ 1:00PM - 02:00PM |
| TEMS Stroke PI Committee Meeting (Virtual) Thu Dec 10 @ 2:30PM - 03:30PM |
| OMD Update - Virtual Fri Dec 11 @ 9:00AM - 12:00PM |
| Education and Training Committee Meeting Wed Dec 16 @ 9:30AM - 11:30AM |
| TEMS Quarterly Drug/IV Box Inventory Wed Dec 16 @ 4:30PM - 04:31PM |
| Christmas - Office Closed Thu Dec 24 @ 8:00AM - 05:00PM |
| PI Data Pull Thu Jan 07 @ 9:00AM - 12:00PM |
| EMS PI Committee Thu Jan 07 @ 1:00PM - 03:00PM |
| Mass Casualty Incident Management 1 & 2 Thu Dec 10 @ 6:00PM - 10:00PM |
| Mass Casualty Incident Management Part 2 Sun Dec 13 @12:00PM - 04:00PM |
| ICS 300 Tue Feb 23 @ 8:00AM - 05:00PM |
| ICS 300 Wed Feb 24 @ 8:00AM - 05:00PM |
| ICS 300 Thu Feb 25 @ 8:00AM - 05:00PM |
| ICS 400 Wed Apr 21 @ 9:00AM - 05:00PM |
| ICS 400 Thu Apr 22 @ 9:00AM - 05:00PM |
