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Children’s Medical Center of Dallas Transport Services Honored With AAMS 2009 Excellence in Community Service Award

AAMS | March 19, 2009

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Children’s Medical Center of Dallas Transport Services has been named the recipient of the Association of Air Medical Services (AAMS) 2009 Excellence in Community Service Award. The organization, located in Dallas, Texas, was honored with this distinction for its “Know Before You Go” program, which takes a proactive role in preventing accidental injuries by giving parents and other adults who care for children actionable water-safety tips and strategies designed to prevent drowning or near-drownings.

Recognizing an unmet need in the community for water safety education, the transport team at Children’s Medical Center of Dallas Transport Services, along with other local organizations, founded the Know Before You Go program in 2002. The program, which is administered by the Injury Prevention department at the hospital, is a collaborative effort between the Children’s Medical Center of Dallas and the Dallas-area YMCA, American Red Cross and Safe Kids Coalition.

While the Children’s Medical Center Dallas Transport Services engages in a number of other community outreach efforts, the Know Before You Go program is especially effective in reaching broad audiences, thanks to news coverage of the mock-drowning events that are part of the program’s educational efforts. The program is important because drowning is the leading cause of unintentional, injury-related deaths among children ages one to four; and for each child who drowns, four are hospitalized for near drowning.

“AAMS is proud to present this award because it is the transport team’s direct involvement by enacting drowning rescue scenarios, which include the Children’s Medical Center Dallas ambulance driving up with lights on and sirens blaring that makes these dramatizations so effective when television news audiences see them,” said AAMS President Sandy Kinkade

Accepting the award on behalf of Children’s Medical Center Dallas Transport Services during a March 12 Capitol Hill reception and awards ceremony was Hector Murillo, RN. The event was part of AAMS’ annual spring conference, held March 11-13, in Washington, D.C.

The AAMS Community Service Award, sponsored by Omniflight Helicoptersin Addison, Texas, is presented to an emergency medical transport individual, organization or coalition based on broad-reaching continuing commitment to the community or to specific local referring or receiving agencies within that community.

For details regarding the AAMS Excellence in Community Service Award and other AAMS awards, see the Media Room at http://www.aams.org/.

About AAMS
The Association of Air Medical Services (AAMS) is the trade association serving the entire air and critical care ground medical transport community. AAMS, together with its charitable arm, the Foundation for Air-Medical Research and Education (FARE), strives to enhance the medical transport industry by promoting the highest level of industry safety; promoting quality patient care; inspiring commitment to the industry’s work, causes, and viability; and providing superior service to its members. For details, see http://www.aams.org/.

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