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Jersey City Medical Center And United Rescue To Receive Prestigious EMS 10: Innovators In EMS Award

By: PRLog
The Medical Center Will Receive Award for Life-Saving Partnership with United Rescue at Baltimore Ceremony
BALTIMORE - Feb. 22, 2016 - PRLog -- Jersey City Medical Center (JCMC) will be awarded with the EMS 10: Innovators in EMS Award for their collaboration with United Rescue, the mobile-app based volunteer pre-ambulance emergency medical care service enabled by GPS technology, modeled after United Hatzalah in Israel.

The JCMC, along with United Rescue, is to be honored for their life-saving contributions to the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) community. The eighth annual EMS 10 Awards Ceremony will take place during the 2016 EMS Today Conference & Exposition on Wednesday, February 24th at the Hyatt Regency Baltimore Inner Harbor (located at 300 Light St., Baltimore, MD 21202) with the cocktail reception beginning at 5:30pm and ceremony starting at 6:30pm.

As the leader in spreading the best knowledge in EMS practice, the Journal of Emergency Medical Services (JEMS), with support from Physio-Control, Inc., is proud to recognize JCMC and United Rescue as the top innovators who’ve driven the EMS practice to a higher level in 2015. This award comes just months after United Rescue and JCMC launched the nation’s first community-based emergency medical response program in partnership with New Jersey Mayor Steven Fulop in Jersey City, New Jersey.

United Rescue volunteers, better known as Community Based Emergency Caregivers (CBECs), have been certified and equipped through a partnership with Jersey City Medical Center to respond to 911 medical calls in the moments that separate life from death. As part of the program, each volunteer is linked to a dispatch system using a GPS-based mobile app called NowForce. When an emergency call is received, CBECs are dispatched through the app and arrive either by foot, bicycle, e-bike or ambucycle (a medically equipped motorcycle) within three minutes to begin treatment prior to ambulance arrival. As a result of this innovation, United Rescue and JCMC have been able to provide better care to more people.

For more information on United Rescue, Jersey City, and its lifesaving program, visit the official website at www.unitedrescue.us. For media credentials or to schedule an on-site media interview with a United Rescue representative or Mayor Steven Fulop, please contact Ashli Urquhart at ashli@theteslagroup.com.

ABOUT UNITED RESCUE

Based on the success of United Hatzalah (meaning "rescue" in Hebrew) of Israel, United Rescue, Jersey City, (“United Rescue”) is a first-of-its-kind EMS service in the U.S. committed to providing free, high quality, and round-the-clock emergency medical care to anyone who needs it. Based in Jersey City, New Jersey, United Rescue trains everyday residents to become community-based emergency caregivers (CBECs), all of whom are volunteers certified and equipped to respond to medical 911 calls. A central dispatch system locates the nearest and most appropriately equipped volunteers to a given emergency and dispatches them using a GPS-enabled mobile application. Volunteers arrive within three minutes of a call to begin lifesaving medical treatment before the arrival of an ambulance.

A partnership of the City of Jersey City and the Jersey City Medical Center, United Rescue is administered in close coordination with United Hatzalah of Israel and is funded exclusively by local philanthropists, foundations, corporations and national supporters.

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