{"id":8362,"date":"2012-05-19T00:38:09","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T05:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=8362"},"modified":"2012-05-19T10:51:35","modified_gmt":"2012-05-19T15:51:35","slug":"lrwc-celebrates-everyday-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2012\/05\/lrwc-celebrates-everyday-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"LRMC Celebrates <BR>Everyday Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Lehigh Regional Medical Center Celebrates Everyday Heroes <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><strong>May 20-26<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><strong><em>Spotlight on Emergency Medical Services Technicians During National EMS Week<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/EMS-Week.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8363\" title=\"EMS Week\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/EMS-Week.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"317\" height=\"103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/EMS-Week.jpg 317w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/EMS-Week-300x97.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 317px) 100vw, 317px\" \/><\/a>To commemorate annual National Emergency Medical Services Week, the theme \u201cEveryday Heroes\u201d has been chosen to aptly describe the life-saving services our hard-working technicians and team members provide on a daily basis.\u00a0 National EMS Week 2012 is May 20 through May 26.<\/p>\n<p>The point of National EMS Week is to bring together local communities and medical personnel to publicize safety, as well as honor the dedication of those who are truly on medicine\u2019s \u201cfront line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe procedures EMT\/ paramedics use can mean the difference between life and death for a patient.\u00a0 Their medical knowledge combined with everyday experience and speed helps our hospital\u2019s physicians and staff prepare for the next step of diagnosis and treatment, all in the time it takes them to get to our hospital.\u00a0 We can\u2019t thank our EMS partners enough for their commitment,\u201d said Joanie Jeannette, CEO.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The entire EMS system includes emergency physicians, nurses, technicians, paramedics, firefighters, educators and administrators.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur EMS team is on-call 24 hours a day, seven days a week.\u00a0 We are all used to working holidays to ensure that we are ready at a moment\u2019s notice.\u00a0 It takes a special person to do this type of work, and I\u2019m thankful to be a part of the team,\u201d said Lehigh Regional\u2019s Dr. Joseph Lemmons, Medical Director, Lehigh Acres Fire and Rescue.<\/p>\n<p>Lehigh Regional is planning a celebration BBQ to be held on Wednesday 23<sup>rd<\/sup> at Fire Station 102 on Homestead Rd, from 11.30a &#8211; 2p to thank our hard working EMS team.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lehigh Regional Medical Center is an 88 bed hospital in Lehigh Acres offering ER Extra emergency services. Extra Fast. Extra Easy. Extra Great Care.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lehighregional.com\/\">www.LehighRegional.com<\/a>. Or call 239-369-2101.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lehigh Regional Medical Center Celebrates Everyday Heroes May 20-26 Spotlight on Emergency Medical Services Technicians During National EMS Week \u00a0 To commemorate annual National Emergency Medical Services Week, the theme&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}