Earmark - Health Services/Bioterror Response for Central Bucks Ambulance and Rescue Unit

Agency:		Department of Health and Human Services
Bureau:		Health Resources and Services Administration
Account:		Health resources and services (75-0350)
Certifying Official:		Director, Division of Financial Management, OAFM
Contact Information:		http://WWW.HHS.GOV 202-720-3210

Health Services/Bioterror Response for Central Bucks Ambulance and Rescue Unit

1 recipient will receive $25,000. This is a first-time earmark.

Year Enacted: 2005

Code: 5136

Description: This project is to show the benefit of using pre-hospital 12-lead EKG to decrease the door to cardiac catheterization time. Central Bucks Ambulance will purchase a state of the art 12-Lead EKG that performs 12 lead EKG, Defibrillation, Capnogaphy, invasive blood pressure, pulse oximerty. With the assistance of our command physician, 12-lead EKG interpretation training will be provided for paramedics, EMTs adn other squads' paramedic and EMTs in Bucks County.

Beneficiary/Recipient	Amount ($K)	Program	Type	Address
Central Bucks Ambulance and Rescue Unit (084193564)	$25	BHPr	Non-Profit	455 East Street Doylestown, PA

Citation

Source: Appropriations Report Language - Conference

Reference: P.L. 108-447, Report 108-792, Title II page 1130.

Method: User entered excerpt

Citation Excerpt: Constrctn & Rnvtn (inclding equip) of hlth care & othr faclties & other hlth relatd activitities

Last Modified: 16-Apr-2007