Commonwealth Health Certified as Region’s Only Stroke Training Center
1/24/2019
SCRANTON, Pa. (Jan. 24, 2019) – Seven Commonwealth Health employees became certified training instructors by completing an Advanced Stroke Life Support course at a seminar in Miami. They will serve as trained instructors for the Commonwealth Health Emergency Medical Services, the only training center in Northeastern Pennsylvania. The ASLS curriculum will be offered in the inpatient setting and pre-hospital setting. The program will create a standardized internal stroke course throughout the health system and establish pre-hospital stroke advocates through network own personnel while expanding educational offerings to regional agencies. Those attending include five CHEMS employees and two registered nurses on staff at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital. They are: Robert Rutkowski, Greg Moran, Carmen Passaniti, Margaret Harris, Chassidy Babcock and Bernadette Royce and Lisa Misson.
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