Kids, teddy bears, learn about EMS

Students from the Sodus Central School and the Lincoln School in Newark helped Myers and Newark-Wayne Community Hospitals celebrate National Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Week (May 18-24) at Teddy Bear Clinics held at both hospitals.

In honor of EMS week, medical staff from both hospital's emergency departments planned several activities for the students including tours of ambulances and a Mercy Flight helicopter, demonstrations with law enforcement canine units, and teddy bear clinics. At the teddy bear clinics, students were able to bring their favorite stuffed animals for a check up.
Pictured are nurse Gina Eklund and second-grader Samantha VanWinkle with a bear; also nurse Sally Mills and second grader Casey Trumble with stethoscope.

One hundred-fifty first graders from Sodus Central School visited Myers Community Hospital on May 21; 200 first and second graders from the Lincoln School in Newark visited Newark-Wayne Community Hospital on May 22. The objective of the event is to help children become familiar with some the emergency services in the area.

In photo with Mercy Flight - students from Lincoln School listen to pilot Tim Hogan and Jack Jones as they explain their occupations.

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