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Spirit awards 14 EMT
scholarships
October 29, 2017
GREENVILLE- Spirit Medical Transport, LLC, is pleased to announce it
has awarded 14 EMT scholarships to individuals living in the western
Ohio and Indiana region.
Among those awarded scholarships were Nathan Berkebile of Ohio City;
Anthony “Tony” Beyke of Celina; Darrian Bradshaw of Portland, IN.;
Mikayla Combs of Hamilton; Staci Flint of Dayton; Mary Flippo of
Greenville; Angela Hemmelgarn of New Paris; Jessica Kimball of Arcanum;
Julia Miller of Middletown; Jordyn Page of Sidney; Yvonne Phillips of
Convoy; Lori Spence of Richmond, IN.; Isaiah Webster of Convoy; and
Misti Wells of Eaton.
Citing a lack of well-qualified EMT’s available in the area, this past
August Spirit announced it would be awarding scholarships to 15
qualifying individuals. In response over 35 people completed
applications, twenty of which made it to the final selection process.
Of the twenty applicants, 15 were chosen with 14 actively enrolled in
the classes being held at Spirit’s Greenville office.
Brian K. Hathaway, President/CEO of Spirit Medical Transport, LLC, is
pleased with the response that was received.
“We have been able to select from a diverse group of people that will
enable the Spirit family of professionals to care for those we’ve been
entrusted to serve,” Hathaway explained. “The age of our scholarship
recipients ranges from 19 to 57. The final selection process included
evaluation of professional standards including dependability,
responsibility, and exceptional customer service skills. I’m excited
for each one of them and their future career in EMS.”
Hathaway said the 14 students are in class five days a week. Aside from
seven 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 in
Archbold 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. The lead instructors
include Dan Fredrick of Defiance and 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. A series of
lectures are also being provided by Joe VanVickle of the Darke County
Coroner’s Office and Chief Mark Whittaker of the Darke County Sheriff’s
Office.
If all goes according to plan, all 14 EMT students will be fully
trained and functioning as certified EMT’s by mid-December. Business
officials report after the scholarships were awarded, there were
several additional people asking about submitting an application.
“We’re a few weeks into class now and things are going exceedingly
well,” Hathaway remarked. “Given the success we’ve seen thus far, I
expect that even more local people will take advantage of the
scholarship opportunity during round two of the selection process.”
Hathaway said 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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