Thursday, 26 January 2023
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.
| Education and Training Committee Meeting Wed Feb 15 @ 9:30AM - 11:30PM |
| Washington - Lincoln Day - TEMS office closed Mon Feb 20 |
| TEMS PI, STEMI, Stroke and Trauma Committee Meetings Thu Mar 09 @ 9:00AM - 03:00PM |
| Education and Training Committee Meeting Wed Mar 15 @ 9:30AM - 11:30PM |
| TEMS Quarterly Drug/IV Box Inventory Wed Mar 15 @ 4:30PM - 04:31PM |
| Education and Training Committee Meeting Wed Apr 19 @ 9:30AM - 11:30PM |
| TEMS PI, STEMI, Stroke and Trauma Committee Meetings Thu May 11 @ 9:00AM - 03:00PM |
| Education and Training Committee Meeting Wed May 17 @ 9:30AM - 11:30PM |
| Office Closed Memorial Day Mon May 29 |
| Education and Training Committee Meeting Wed Jun 21 @ 9:30AM - 11:30PM |
| NIMS ICS 300 Course Tue Feb 21 |
| NIMS ICS 400 Class Wed Mar 29 |
| NIMS ICS 300 Course Tue Jun 27 |
