Crime & Safety

School Bus Accident Victims Treated to Cookout

Six of the students participated in the cookout after they were released from the hospital.

From Saint Francis Hospital:

Six middle school students who were treated Tuesday afternoon at Saint Francis Hospital were treated to a cookout on the lawn outside the hospital after they were released.

With permission from their teachers, the middle school students were served
hamburgers, hot dogs, chips, water, cookies, cake and brownies at the EMS Week
cookout on the lawn outside the emergency department. The cookout was the second of a three-day event, which celebrates the everyday heroes in the area’s EMS system.

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EMS and other first-responder personnel from throughout the area were invited to
the event. Ambulances from Evanston and four other municipalities including Glencoe, Winnetka, Glenview and Northfield Township transported patients to Saint Francis Hospital after the bus accident.

The students had been on a school field trip, according to information released by
the Evanston Police Department.

Saint Francis Hospital treated 10 patients in all, with two patients remaining in the
hospital as of 3 p.m. Tuesday, according to Adam Greenberg, R.N., EMS system
coordinator.

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Saint Francis Hospital, the longest continually-certified Level I Trauma Center on
the North Shore, is a resource hospital in Region X of the Illinois EMS System, providing medical oversight and continuing education for five hospitals, 12 municipal fire departments, three private ambulance companies and two non-transport providers which includes more than 800 paramedics.

EMS Week is being celebrated nationwide from May 15 through May 21, 2011.
Wednesday, May 18 is set aside as Emergency Medical Services for Children Day,
according to the American College of Emergency Physicians.

“During EMS Week, we celebrate and thank the everyday heroes who respond to
emergencies every day and every night. But, ultimately, it’s all about our patients,”
Greenberg said. “We were glad to share our celebration with them as well, and make their day a little more special. It sure was a different kind of field trip than what they had planned.”


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