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Spirit awards nine EMT scholarships to
locals
GREENVILLE- Spirit Medical Transport, LLC, is pleased to announce it
has awarded nine EMT scholarships to individuals living in the western
Ohio and Indiana region.
Among those awarded scholarships were Elizabeth Allen of Rossburg;
Jamee Blankenship of New Madison; Jessica Garrett of Greenville; Misty
Howell of New Madison; Kristen Lindsey of Arcanum; Cassandra Martinez
of Van Wert; Stephanie Pascal of Union City, IN; Tyler Pratt of Urbana;
and Ericka Slezak of Kettering.
Citing a lack of well-qualified EMT’s available in the area, last
August Spirit began awarding scholarships to qualifying individuals. In
November, 14 EMT’s graduated from the company’s first-ever sponsored
EMT class. In late November, the business began accepting applications
for classes that started in late January.
Brian K. Hathaway, President/CEO of Spirit Medical Transport, LLC, is
pleased with the quality of applicants applying for the scholarships.
The final selection process includes evaluation of professional
standards including dependability, responsibility, and exceptional
customer service skills.
“As partners in healthcare with other local hospitals and nursing
facilities, we are vested in selecting people who have the drive and
compassion to serve the ill and injured,” explained Vice President
Aaron L. Guthrie.
The nine students selected in this last round of scholarships are in
class five days a week. Aside from eight weeks of classroom
instruction, the students will also do a clinical rotation on the
Spirit ambulances, as well as in the emergency rooms at either Wayne
HealthCare in Greenville or Van Wert County Hospital in Van Wert.
The class is a cooperative effort between Four County Career Center and
Spirit Medical Transport, LLC, with instructors from the school’s adult
vocational program and employees of Spirit Medical Transport, LLC, who
are certified EMS instructors helping teach the classes. The primary
lead instructor includes Paramedic Mike Woodford of Greenville.
The class syllabus also includes several “extra” learning experiences
together with the opportunity to attend a cadaver lab at the University
of Toledo Medical School; a day focused on how to excel at customer
service as an EMT; and a basic emergency vehicle operations course
focused on emergency and non-emergency driving habits. Joe VanVickle of
the Darke County Coroner’s Office and Chief Mark Whittaker of the Darke
County Sheriff’s Office are also providing a series of lectures.
If all goes according to plan, all nine EMT students will be fully
trained and functioning as certified EMT’s by mid-April.
Business officials report they are so please with the outcome of the
classes, they are currently accepting another round of scholarship
applications through March 16, 2018, for classes that will start in
early April.
The program is not only designed to help the local business grow, it
was also created to give back to local community-based providers as
well.
“The scholarship was designed not only as an investment in our
business, but also as a means of opening the doors of opportunity to
those individuals who are in pursuit of a rewarding career and have a
passion to serve people during some of the roughest days of their
lives,” Hathaway concluded. “As a company, we are excited about
enabling personal growth and career success to those who are
participating in our scholarship program and have a strong desire to
serve the friends, neighbors, and total strangers in the places they
live.”
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