By MATT PIKE
St. Joseph Post
Mosaic Life Care in St. Joseph will provide training for the medic unit of the 139th Airlift Wing as a new partnership begins between the two entities.
One weekend a month Mosaic will be used for training at the hospital with trauma patients.
Mosaic CEO Mike Poore says as a Level 2 trauma center Mosaic will help by offering training to keep the guard up to speed with the latest medical techniques in a hospital.
"So that brings in a lot of different types of trauma that our staff and the staff at the 139th experience and real-world taking care of patients and keeping everybody up to speed," Poore tells reporters.
Poore says every hospital does the same thing as far as training and keeping people up on skills and this is a way to partner with the guard and provide that for them.
Colonel Jason Horn Commander of the Medic group says a big thing in their world is many of the 139ths medics work in the medical environment but not in trauma.
"In the military trauma is the most important, obviously if we're in a conflict or something like that and we're actually assessing patients, it's probably in a trauma environment, and so they need those hands-on skills to be prepared for the future if needed," Horn explains. "And they want to be here, they want to come here, they want to learn, they want to be more proactive."
Horn says on the other hand the partnership will also help Mosaic with free trained help with four to eight service members coming to help once a month.
Horn says this new agreement will provide hands-on training for medics that are at best EMT certified.
"Not necessarily that they're in the middle of it with their hands on, but just visually watching, learning from the ER environment here, from their doctors, their nurses, their nurse practitioners, PA's, whatever," Horn says. "So, anything you can do to help a 20- or 21-year-old EMT is beneficial to our unit, big time."
Horn says the guard has a list of techniques they need to be proficient at so working with Mosaic will allow them to hit those checks and learn.
