News for Mar 4 - 10

 

 

Vice President Mike Markovitz brought the meeting to order at 12:15 PM online via Zoom. George Gay lead the Pledge of Allegiance, Dave Wilson gave the invocation and Samantha Maruzzelli led the first recitation of the 4-Way Test.

 

 

Bob Carpenter - guest speaker
Lorey Durland – guest of Laura Charles

 

 

 

There will be a Flash Meeting tonight at 5:30 PM via the Zoom link you were sent yesterday.

 

 

 

 

The information about the Rotary Peace Fellowship appeared in the Mar 3 Examiner.

 

Carol reported that the Website was updated, weekly bulletin went out and our contribution submitted for the District Newsletter.

 

 

Mike reported that the committee met on Monday and everything is still being planned. A final decision will be made at the end of July. 

 

We need help with sponsorships, so if you can help out please contact sponsorship sub-committee chair Dave Weingust.

 

Also, let Ron or Mike know if you would like to join a sub-committee for the Festival.

 

 

Jodi Crimmel has not heard anything from Haiti and we are still awaiting contact to move forward with the Haiti Global Grant.

 

 

Please make you annual donation soon.  If you need help with your donation, contact Sam for help.

 

 

Difficult time right now for school organizations like Interact. 

 

 

Interact Faculty Advisor Tommasina Fiorillo has volunteered to be an interpreter if needed for the clinic.

 

Ann indicated that an email will be coming out today to those who signed up to have them report their schedule availability.  The clinic will still be a two-day event; however the dates are still to be determined and volunteers will be asked for availability for all weekends in March.  Because the EMA may only get 48 hours’ notice of availability, they want to be proactive in scheduling volunteers.

 

Over 130 people on the volunteer list right now.

 

 

 

May 15 is the deadline for District Grant applications this year.

 

President-Elect Mary Tempest needs ideas for the District Grant:  so far maybe equipment for the girls’ softball team or something for the Route 29’s rest stop.

 

 

The Rotary Auction began Feb 1 and will run until March 14th. You can view and bid on the items at  https://www.trellis.org/rotaryauction.  Many local items are available.

 

Dave Palmer has arranged for the District Auction to be featured on WNEP TV Channel 16 on Friday the 5th at 9:15 AM.  You are invited to attend and to hoot holler and yell for the auction and Rotary in general.  Bring your cheerleader voice.  (When you pull into the station parking lot, go all the way to the left side of the building, the parking lot continues around back and that is where you will be met.)

 

 

The Club received the bill for the new Club banners, that Samantha Maruzzelli orchestrated with Board approval.

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Vice President Mike Markovitz asked everyone to silently say to themselves the 4-Way Test before they go about the rest of their day.

 

Vice President Mike Markovitz adjourned the meeting at 1:09 PM.

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Bob has been an active EMS provider in Wyoming County since 2003 and obtained certification as a paramedic and an EMS Instructor in 2005.  He taught an EMT class in Wyoming County until 2017 when he accepted the position as Regional EMS Education Coordinator at EMS of Northeastern Pennsylvania.  He previously served as president of the Wyoming County EMS Consortium and coordinated EMS at the Wyoming County fair since 2008.  He has had a keen focus on injury prevention, pediatrics, and provider mental health throughout his career.  Since 2017, he has been involved in Child Death Review and is currently the chair of the Susquehanna and Wyoming County Child Death Review (CDR) Team.

 

As the chair of the committee, Bob’s and the committee’s goal is to prevent injury before it happens.

 

CDR is a multidisciplinary team of professions to understand why a child dies and what can be done to prevent such deaths.  This team is designated in Law and works with Wyoming & Susquehanna Counties.  They review cases of child deaths in accordance with the protocols established by the State public health child death review team.

 

They will review information/interview/reports from the CCYA, DA office, Court reports, physician & coroner reports, reports of EMS, local public health agency and any other person deemed appropriate by a majority of the team.

 

The CDR meet quarterly for 1.5 hr and occasionally have no deaths to review.  The review birth to age 21 deaths based on residence in our Counties.  They have detailed discussion of the injury or death and decide if the death was preventable.  If so, they develop a prevention recommendation.

 

All team members sign a yearly confidentially agreement.  Data is excluded from HIPPA, so they can review the info.  They cannot review a case that has pending criminal investigation unless the DA allows, usually they are 1 year behind legal.

 

All info goes into National Fatality Review Case Reporting System, which is very intensive on the info to be entered.  24 pages of information needs to be entered.

 

ID factors that cause a risk for injury and death.

Make recommendation for improvement both locally and Commonwealth wide.

Assist with coordination of services & investigations for all involved.

 

CDR teams do not have the resources to implement all the prevention strategies that it recommends, but they can be the catalyst for change.

 

Common need for prevention:  infant safe sleep, suicide, teen driving, poisoning (including overdoses), prematurity, farm safety and weapons-related issues.  Safe sleep is a big issue here.  HANDS does focus on safe sleep for the families it services.

 

Carol Ziomek mentioned the Josh the Otter Water Safety and Literacy program, which we sponsor for pre-K kids through HANDS.  Our involvement with this program began after 2 local children drowned within a 1 month period.

 

Bob Carpenter