Regular Meeting Minutes
University of Louisville Hospital, Stat Flight, Louisville Kentucky
November 18, 1996

Executive Board Members Present:

John Isfort, President
George Glessner, Secretary

Executive Board Members Absent:

Chris Nalley, First Vice President
Laura Otte, Second Vice President
Cathy Wigley, Treasurer

Programs Represented:

University of Kentucky Aeromedical Services
University of Louisville StatFlight
Welborn LifeFlight
Kosairs Just For Kids Transport Team
Jewish Hospital Skycare
St Joseph Hospital Carefligh

Call To Order:

The meeting was called to order and a quorum was present at 7:35pm

Approval of the Minutes:

• The minutes of the September 16, 1996 meeting, having been sent to each program, were corrected.
• Jeff Huddleston made a motion, Seconded by Walt Middleton, to accept the corrected minutes.
• There was no further discussion and the motion carried unanimously

Officers Reports:

President's Report

• John had no report other than the agenda items
• No action needed

Vice President's Report

• There were no reports from either Vice President
• No action needed

Secretary Report

• George Glessner reported on the proposed calendar of meetings of the EMS Council.
  • February 25, 1997
  • May 20, 1997
  • August 26, 1997
  • November 18, 1997
• George Also reported on the progress of the EMS Council's EMS Systems Committee's Ad Hoc Committee for the development of Class III ambulance Regulations of which he is a member.
• No action was needed

Treasurer Report

• No report was available, but John Isfort Reported that $850.00 was collected with the sale of tee-shirts at UK's Trauma Symposium
• No action needed

Committee Reports:

Government Affairs Committee, Chair, Jan Davis Co- Chair, Rick Nickoson

• No report and no action needed

Education Committee, Chair, Jill Johnson

• No report and no action needed

Safety Committee, Chair, Richard Frazer

• Richard Frazer reported that the first meeting under his chairmanship was held just prior to the meeting.
• Three goals were identified for the committee
  • Developing standard procedures for scene flights
  • Information sharing system for LZ changes and hazards similar to the NOTAMs
  • Improvement and changes in hospital helipads
    • Steve Shepherd has started work with the Kentucky Aviation Agency of the KY Transportation Department to try to get all hospital helipads disignated and to assist in the development of GPS IFR Approaches
• Mike Hartweck made a motion seconded by Julia Fultz to accept the Safety Committee Report
• The motion passed unanimously

Research Committee, Chair, Julia Fultz

• Maggie Morris Reported that the Journal of Nursing still need an Author for their Flight RN Update section
• Julia reported that the JEMS Conference in March will have a 2 day pre-conference course on research
• Julia and Maggie reported that the AAMS conference had several good abstracts this time, there were some outcome related but there still needs to be much more outcome based research
  • The research presented said that air medical made no difference in outcome
• Jeff Huddleston made a motion seconded by Richard Frazer to accept the Research Committee report
  • Motion carried unanimously

Communication Committee, Chair, Kim Phelps

• Committee met 10/4/96, Kim Reported on that meeting
• Set as one of the committees goals to develop ACS continuing education and to participate in a region 7 education conference
• Committee would like to also facilitate increased involvement in NAACS
  • The next region 7 NAACS meeting is 11/25/96
  • 3 NAACS board positions are open
• The committee will also be working on flight following standards and agreements
• Mike Hartweck made a motion seconded by Walt Middleton to accept the Communication Committee Report
  • The Motion Carried unanimously

Internet Committee, Chair, Philip Rowe

• No Report

Membership Committee, Chair, Brian Lindell

• No Report

Nominating Committee

A nominating committee was appointed by John Isfort in accordance with the by-laws to nominate candidates for the offices of President, 1st Vice President, Treasurer, and Secretary
Appointed to the committee were Julia Fultz, Karen Higden and Jon Hamlyn.

Conference Update

• John Isfort, George Glessner and Julia Fultz reported on recent conferences
• NAEMT Conference, Louisville
  • Sold 194 Tee- Shirts
• UK Symposium, Lexington
  • Sold $825.00 worth of Tee-shirts and Sweatshirts
• AAMS Conference, Fort Worth, Texas
  • Already reported on during research committee report
  • 1/10/97 is the deadline for submission of topics for next years AMTC
• No action needed

New Business

• Cessation of care in the field was discussed by Maggie Morris. She stated that the EMS Branch is looking into developing a legislative proposal to allow for this.
• John Isfort proposed that we sponsor an award for the KAPA Conference beginning with the next conference
• John Also reported that plans are under way for an air medical picnic to be held in the spring
• No Action Taken

Old Business

None

Announcements

• John Will be giving Tee-shirts to each program for sale the prices are:
  • Tee Shirts $10.00 & $12.00
  • Sweatshirts $18.00 & $20.00
• Persons responsible (Program)
  • Mike Hartweck Welborn LifeFlight
  • Walt Middleton Skycare
  • Jon Hamlyn Just For Kids
  • Karen Segar StatFlight

Adjournment

Mike Hartweck made a motion seconded by Julia Fultz to adjourn the meeting.
The motion carried unanimously and the meeting was adjourned.

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