Saturday, 2 July 2022
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
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
Nightingale's first operational flight under Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) from Sentara Norfolk General Hospital to Sentara Albemarle Medical Center in Elizabeth City took place in cloudy weather on Thursday, January 3rd, 2019. A vascular patient with an aortic alert was safely transferred to Sentara Norfolk General.
Read more: Sentara Nightingale Regional Air Ambulance begins IFR operations
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
Sentara Norfolk General is in the process of a phased renumbering plan for patient rooms and phone numbers in many areas of the hospital. As a result, The Emergency Department will receive new phone numbers.
| Patient and Provider Safety Committee Meeting Thu Jul 14 @ 1:00PM - 02:00PM |
| Trauma PI Committee Thu Jul 14 @ 2:30PM - 03:30PM |
| Education and Training Committee Meeting Wed Jul 20 @ 9:30AM - 11:30AM |
| Medical Operations Committee Wed Aug 10 @12:00PM - 02:00PM |
| STEMI PI Committee Thu Aug 11 @ 1:00PM - 02:00PM |
| Stroke PI Committee Thu Aug 11 @ 2:30PM - 03:30PM |
| Education and Training Committee Meeting Wed Aug 17 @ 9:30AM - 11:30AM |
| ICS 400 Wed Aug 31 @ 8:00AM - 05:00PM |
| NIMS ICS 400 Wed Aug 31 @ 8:30AM - 05:00PM |
| ICS 400 Thu Sep 01 @ 8:00AM - 05:00PM |
| Thoracic Trauma Thu Jul 21 @ 9:00AM - 10:30AM |
| Stroke Thu Jul 21 @10:45AM - 11:45AM |
| 911 Best Practices for Hospice Patients Thu Jul 21 @12:45PM - 01:45PM |
| The Effects of Manual Ventilation on Intrathoracic Pressures and Cardiac Output Thu Jul 21 @ 2:00PM - 03:00PM |
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