Lake Norman Regional Medical Center Celebrates National EMS Week, May 19 - 25
5/15/2019
MOORESVILLE, N.C. – If there is one phone number known to every adult – and even most children – in America, it is 9-1-1. Urban or rural, English-speaking or not, every citizen knows that in an emergency, you dial those three digits and expert help will come.
Help will come in the form of the EMTs, firefighters, paramedics and registered nurses who provide emergency care to anyone and everyone who calls. This week, we pause to remember that medical care often takes place outside of the safe, insulated and well-lit hospital environment. Emergency care can start in a patient's home or place of work. It can start on a busy sidewalk, in the tangled remains of an SUV, or down a muddy embankment in the rain. The help never takes a holiday, and it arrives without regard for time of day, weather or safety conditions.
This year, EMS week has the fitting theme of Beyond the Call. It is a week where we pause to give extra special thanks to those first medical responders who are dedicated to providing lifesaving services on the front line of medicine each and every day.
This week we celebrate all the people who make the system strong. Please join all of us at Lake Norman Regional Medical Center in thanking our local EMS providers and those across the country who go Beyond the Call in a career that demands passion, purpose, expertise and heart. We are proud to work with them for patient care!
Stephen Midkiff, CEO
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