Northern Arizona Healthcare (NAH) announced recently that it donated 10 bleeding control stations to the Tuba City Unified School District (TCUSD).
The stations will be available at school sites to help save lives and stop life-threatening bleeding during an emergency.
The new stations were made possible by a $7,500 donation from NAH鈥檚 Office of Philanthropy.
NAH has delivered the stations to TCUSD facilities, and they are being installed in all six of the district's schools in the coming weeks.
NAH operates the only state-designated Level I Trauma Center in northern Arizona at Flagstaff Medical Center. The trauma team conducts many injury-prevention programs and operates a Stop the Bleed community training program to help educate the region on how to save a person鈥檚 life in an emergency. The program is spearheaded by injury-prevention outreach coordinator Shawn Bowker, who has been leading Stop the Bleed courses since 2018.
The injury prevention team donated a training kit to TCUSD and has held three trainings to teach district employees.聽
鈥淲e are so pleased that we were able to help out our partners at the Tuba City United School District with this contribution,鈥� said Larry Kushner, NAH鈥檚 chief philanthropy officer. 鈥淭hese bleeding control station donations are an important commitment to our community in helping keep students protected. Having these kits readily available in case of a traumatic event is crucial, lives can be saved if people are trained properly on using these stations during an emergency."
NAH previously donated 43 stations to the Flagstaff Unified School District, which installed them in every school and several other facilities.
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