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Education Staff Credentials

Staff Background: Meds-1 employs only professional EMS providers as our educators- This means that these staff currently provide service in licensed EMS agencies or Healthcare Facilities as Emergency Medical Technicians, Registered Paramedics, Registered Nurses, Physicians, or as other Healthcare Professionals. We are very proud that our five core lead instructors, all pre-hospital professionals, have over 100 combined years of clinical / field EMS experience and an equal number of years providing EMS education.

This experience and background assures you that any program presented to you by Meds-1 is backed by the leadership of highly credible and experienced EMS practitioners. Certification of our entire staff follows national guidelines, where available, and involves strict quality support procedures - from instructor selection through delivery of every program.

Physician Medical Direction: Meds-1 employs a physician EMS medical director to serve as an advisor for all EMS programs. This physician not only serves as a medical director for our advanced level courses, but also is available to advise staff and review other programs as needed. To continue our team approach to EMS education we also have other physician staff of varied backgrounds - from Family Practice to Wilderness Medicine - to support our planning and program delivery.

These associates, combined with support staff who are not only Paramedics - but have diverse backgrounds such as a Trial Lawyer & Licensed Mental Health Professional, bring fresh insight to the ever changing face of emergency medicine.

We also have Dental Professionals, Registered Nurses, a Physician Assistant / Nurse Practitioner, Respiratory Therapist, and primary Professional Educators aligned with our team to support delivery of our courses.

Affiliated Training Sites

To serve you, we have American Heart Association affiliated training sites throughout much of the Arrowhead Region of Minnesota. In addition to Grand Rapids, Meds-1 supports basic life support program sites in Cohasset, Baudette, Karlstad, Bemidji, International Falls, Side Lake, Chisholm, Two Harbors, the Gunflint Trail, Remer, Bovey, Coleraine, Deer River, Bigfork, Hill City & Jacobson. Our sites have over 60 instructors and last year we instructed over 4,500 students in basic life support skills.

Other Grand Rapids Area CPR & AED providers who are aligned with us and are ready to serve you are:

Grand Itasca Clinic & Hospital - contact Stephanie Hurley R.N.

Northern Pines Orthopedic Clinic - contact Jeff Temple CFNP, OPA

The Baich Clinic - contact Michael Baich M.D.

Itasca Community College - www.itascacc.edu - A provider of credit based Healthcare CPR & First Responder Programs

This year we have also aligned our local county law enforcement and our community's fire service CPR programs to continue our support of American Heart Association programs.

Email us for contact information for aligned instructors in these communities to help you arrange CPR and AED programs in your area.

Other EMS Preferred Programs

We have acknowledged other EMS programs as Preferred - These are EMS education programs that we know from experience as providing high quality of EMS education.

These are our preferred education programs for those EMS courses we presently do not directly provide - or in geographic areas we do currently provide services. You will find that many of these preferred agencies provide other excellent programs not listed below:

For First Responder, American Heart Association ECC Programs, EMT Basic Courses & Paramedic Programs:

Mesabi Range Community & Technical College

ETA, Inc.

St. Cloud Technical College

If the Duluth Area, All American Heart Association ECC Programs:

St. Luke's Hospital Education & Marketing, Duluth

For First Responder, EMT-Basic, and American Heart Association ECC Programs:

Cuyuna Range Hospital EMS Education

NEST - EMS Education, Side Lake

Email us for these contacts

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