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NAAMTA Global Announces Medical Transport Accreditation for Survival Flight Inc.

March 24, 2023

Survival Flight eagerly embraces the NAAMTA’s Continuous Compliance and Commitment Program which supports efforts for quality and safety management, internal assessments, and improvement processes.”

— Andy Arthurs

BATESVILLE, ARKANSAS, USS, March 22, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ — After an extensive independent, external evaluation of administrative documentation, flight operations, medical practices, and facilities, Survival Flight Inc. is awarded accreditation for its rotor- and fixed-wing programs by the National Accreditation Alliance of Medical Transport Applications (NAAMTA Global).

NAAMTA’s Accreditation program is built on standards that focus on quality patient care and the safety of the transports for all involved. The accreditation process is founded upon providing service-based consultative and educational processes and presenting best practices to help an organization improve its care and services.

NAAMTA Global verified their compliance through employee interviews, on-site evaluations, and process reviews, all of which were conducted using ISO 9001:2015 auditing guidelines. Through the accreditation application and site auditing

Chatham EMS response times an emergency for Savannah GA region

March 23, 2023

Motorists know when they see a speeding ambulance in the rearview mirror to get out of the way.

Seconds count in a medical emergency. The sooner the ambulance reaches the scene or gets the person in the back of the ambulance to the hospital, the better the patient’s chances of survival or of avoiding serious injury.

Yet in Chatham County, EMS is currently in a constant state of emergency. Ambulance response times have steadily increased since 2020, reaching an average of 17 minutes, 30 seconds as of December 2022. Even those in dire need ― life-threatening emergencies ― are waiting 15 minutes for an ambulance to arrive.

This trend concerns local and state government officials. Meanwhile, the local EMS provider, a privately held nonprofit known as Chatham Emergency Services, is facing a bevy of challenges, including:

∙ A spike in service calls, including a growing number that officials label 911

Bay Area businesses still in survival mode

March 21, 2023

Before the pandemic, Papenhausen Hardware in San Francisco could make about $10 in profit selling a garbage disposal for $129. It wasn’t a king’s ransom, but it was the kind of transaction that has kept the place afloat and serving the West Portal neighborhood for almost 90 years — through earthquakes and multiple fires.

But with COVID-19 concerns increasingly in the rearview for many people, small businesses like Papenhausen are still locked in a struggle for survival, battling the immutable laws of economics and the permanent changes brought on by the pandemic.

That garbage disposal nowadays? Papenhausen owner Karl Aguilar said they don’t even sell it anymore. With inflation-pumped prices it would cost the store $150 just to get it on the shelves, let alone what it would cost a customer including a markup. And it’s unlikely anyone would buy it when the same item could be purchased online or

Feinstein Institutes’ Study Discovers That Mitochondrial Transplantation Improves Survival and Outcomes After Cardiac Arrest

March 20, 2023

MANHASSET, N.Y., March 16, 2023–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Mitochondria are organelles in our cells that act like batteries, processing the food we eat into energy. Through a series of studies, researchers at The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research have shown that mitochondria transplantation (MTx), delivering new mitochondria to critical tissues, can improve survival and neurological outcomes after cardiac arrest.

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Dr. Lance Becker led the new research on mitochondria transplantation. (Credit: Feinstein Institutes)

MTx is an emerging technology with the potential to help improve function in cells damaged by ischemia – lack of blood flow and oxygen – and treat many conditions like cardiac arrest or stroke. The research, led by Lance Becker, MD, professor in the Institute of Bioelectronic Medicine, published today in BMC Medicine, studied the ability and efficacy of mitochondria transplantation in a test tube (in vivo) and

Mutually Assured Survival: New Orleans groups are rethinking disaster aid from the grassroots up | The Latest | Gambit Weekly

March 17, 2023 sNawaWebs.ADV

Ed Note: This story is part of Gambit’s “Climate of Change” series on climate change and labor in partnership with the Solutions Journalism Network.

In the days leading up to Hurricane Ida’s landfall at the end of August 2021 and for weeks afterward, the Mutual Aid – New Orleans Facebook group buzzed with activity.

There were people asking for help with financial assistance — for things like getting gas or renting a hotel room — and seeking advice on how to navigate federal assistance programs. Others came looking for help dealing with Entergy or a hand clearing some debris from their yard.

More often than not, what they found were just as many users freely offering whatever help they could give: ice delivery, food and supplies from out of town, fundraising for devastated communities along the coast and in the Bayou Parishes.

As the days and weeks crawled by, Mutual