The Iowa Quad Cities ambulance service has received grant money to buy medical equipment – a new mount system to secure ventilators and cardiac monitors in its ambulances.
MEDIC EMS, the 911 emergency and non-emergency ambulance service provider for Davenport, Bettendorf, northern Scott County and surrounding communities, has received a $75,000 grant from the Regional Development Authority (RDA). The grant will help fund the installation of a mount system called the Technimount System for new ventilators and existing cardiac monitors in its 20 ambulances.
Securing this equipment will protect patients and staff members from injury, and also prevent damage to this new equipment, ensuring its operation to save lives, the organization said in a news release.
The Technimount system is now in place for cardiac monitors at MEDIC EMS, with the ventilator solution in final stages of production, with an expected implementation date of January 2023.
Last year, MEDIC EMS received an allocation of patient ventilators from the Iowa Homeland Security Strategic stockpile. These ventilators will enhance the care of critically ill patients, whose numbers have risen since the COVID-19 pandemic.
