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AGREEMENT BETWEEN SABINA A. BRAITHWAITE M.D., AND SEDGWICK COUNTY FOR SERVICES AS EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES SYSTEM MEDICAL DIRECTOR.
Presented by: Bob Lamkey, Director of Public Safety.
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Approve the agreement and authorize the Chair to sign.
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Background: In order to foster a truly integrated system of pre-hospital care in Sedgwick County, hiring of a full-time medical director with oversight of all of the major components (SCEMS, 911, SCFD and WFD) is critical. A comprehensive EMS study in 2002 found that a major component needed to achieve seamless system function and consistency of training, quality assurance and medical direction as well as improve system integration and efficiency was to have a full-time medical director. The Medical Society of Sedgwick County strongly endorsed (and still does) that recommedation and the position was created. The EMS service agreement between the City of Wichita and Sedgwick County also calls for a full-time EMSS Medical Director funded by the County.
The vacancy was advertised nationally and five strong candidates were selected for interview. There was a very deliberate, in-depth screening and selection process involving all of the participating agencies and senior management from Wichita and Sedgwick County and the Medical Society of Sedgwick County in coming to this decision.
Dr. Braithwaite comes to us from Charlottesville, VA. She has avery diverse and extensive emergency medicine background as a practicing physician, EMS medical director, educator and author. She has served on and held leadership positions in professional EMS related committees and boards at the local, state and national level. She has been recognized for excellence at both local and State levels in Virginia. Dr. Braithwaite has extensive training in disaster management and incident command and has completed over 15 independent courses of study offered by FEMA. Dr. Braithwaite also possesses a Master of Publi...
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