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Grand Bend
,Lakeshore Advance
Minister of
Ernironment
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Wednesday, August 10, 2011
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Discovering Aquafest
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Captain Deacon Bosley, Engineman Al Foster, Rescue Specialist Jamie Oakley and On Deck Andre Gouln of the Coast
Guard Vessel Discovery were on hand for tours during Grand Bend's annual Aquafest on the weekend. Here the crew
with Stephanie, Timothy and Bridget Donaldson check out the ship. See more photos on Page 6.
Rapid Response
units offer better
"stop the clock"
service to patients
Lynda Hillman -Replay
Lakeshore Advance
Huron County Emergency Medical
Services (EMS) now has tour Rapid
Response Units on the road to better
serve the community and a newly pro-
posed deployment strategy that falls
into the response time mandate of the
province when it comes to ambulance
service response.
Dave Lew, Chief Emergency Services
(ES) and Jeff Horseman, Deputy Chief
ES explained to the Lakeshore Advance
what the new strategy means and how
this will benefit patients. A new deploy-
ment strategy document will be
released in the very near future- the
Ministry of Health currently has it in
their office to sign off.
Since the late 1990s the benchmarks
for response times have been changing
in order to improve response to the
patient. Today the legislated response
time for CTAS level one- that being
emergency is eight minutes. In order to
improve their response times, Huron
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