Northern Arizona Healthcare (NAH) announced that it has donated 10 new Bleeding Control Stations to the Tuba City United School District (TCUSD). The stations will be available at school sites to help save lives and stop life-threatening bleeding during an emergency. The new stations were made possible by a $7,500 donation from NAH’s Office of Philanthropy. NAH has delivered these Bleeding Control Stations to TCUSD facilities and they are being installed in all six TCUSD schools in the next couple of weeks.
The first minutes following a traumatic injury are crucial in saving a life. Uncontrolled bleeding can result in death within minutes – even before emergency medical services or other emergency responders can arrive. NAH operates the only state-designated Level I Trauma Center in northern Arizona at Flagstaff Medical Center. The Trauma team conducts many injury prevention programs and operates a Stop the Bleed community training program to help educate our region on how to save a person’s life in an emergency. The program is spearheaded by Shawn Bowker, injury prevention outreach coordinator, who has been leading Stop the Bleed courses since 2018. The injury prevention team donated a training kit to TCUSD and has held three trainings to teach district employees.
The stations are a red nylon bag in a clear case that is mounted on the wall. In an emergency, the case is opened and the bag with the kits can be carried to the location where they’re needed. Inside each station are eight individual Stop the Bleed kits, which includes a combat action tourniquet, emergency trauma dressing, gauze, gloves, trauma shears, chest seals, a space blanket and a permanent marker to note the time a tourniquet was applied. They also include a collapsible litter, or rescue stretcher, that can be used to transport patients.
“We are so pleased that we were able to help out our partners at the Tuba City United School District with this contribution,” said NAH’s Chief Philanthropy Officer, Larry Kushner. “These Bleeding Control Station donations are an important commitment to our community in helping keep students protected. Having these kits readily available in case of a traumatic event is crucial, lives can be saved if people are trained properly on using these stations during an emergency. We hope that having these stations installed at each school will give the Tuba City community solace about the safety of their children,” added Kushner.
NAH previously donated 43 Bleeding Control Stations to the Flagstaff Unified School District, which installed them in every school and several other facilities.
NAH is committed to improving health and healing people, a mission that health care colleagues work to achieve each day through serving the community.
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