TITLE: Recognizing the Val Verde Regional Medical Center Emergency Medical Services Academy for its contributions to the Del Rio area.

SUMMARY: Recognizing the Val Verde Regional Medical Center Emergency Medical Services Academy for its contributions to the Del Rio area.

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WHEREAS, The Emergency Medical Services Academy at the Val Verde Regional Medical Center works to improve the availability and quality of pre-hospital emergency medical care in the Del Rio area; and WHEREAS, Approved as an advanced training center through the Texas Department of State Health Services, the academy provides initial EMS certification courses, preparing EMT students for the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians certification exam and subsequent certification by the state; it also serves as a site for clinical and field internships; and WHEREAS, The EMS Academy provides continuing education for medical, nursing, and ancillary staff as well; as a training center for the American Heart Association, it offers courses on basic and advanced cardiac life support and on pediatric life support; and WHEREAS, Ably led by director Susie Jechow, a recipient of the 2005 EMS Educator Award, the EMS Academy is ensuring that Del Rio area citizens enjoy the benefits of a skilled and well-educated force of first responders and health care professionals, and the academy's many initiatives are indeed worthy of commendation; now, therefore, be it RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 82nd Texas Legislature hereby recognize the Val Verde Regional Medical Center Emergency Medical Services Academy for its contributions to the Del Rio area and extend to all those associated with the academy sincere best wishes for continued success; and, be it further RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be prepared for the academy as an expression of high regard by the Texas House of Representatives. Gallego Straus Gonzales of Williamson Morrison Aliseda Gonzalez Munoz, Jr. Allen Gooden Murphy Alonzo Guillen Naishtat Alvarado Gutierrez Nash Anchia Hamilton Oliveira Anderson of Dallas Hancock Orr Anderson of McLennan Hardcastle Otto Aycock Harless Parker Beck Harper-Brown Patrick Berman Hartnett Paxton Bohac Hernandez Luna Pena Bonnen Hilderbran Perry Branch Hochberg Phillips Brown Hopson Pickett Burkett Howard of Fort Bend Pitts Burnam Howard of Travis Price Button Huberty Quintanilla Cain Hughes Raymond Callegari Hunter Reynolds Carter Isaac Riddle Castro Jackson Ritter Chisum Johnson Rodriguez Christian Keffer Schwertner Coleman King of Parker Scott Cook King of Taylor Sheets Craddick King of Zavala Sheffield Creighton Kleinschmidt Shelton Crownover Kolkhorst Simpson Darby Kuempel Smith of Harris Davis of Dallas Landtroop Smith of Tarrant J. Davis of Harris Larson Smithee S. Davis of Harris Laubenberg Solomons Deshotel Lavender Strama Driver Legler Taylor of Collin Dukes Lewis Taylor of Galveston Dutton Lozano Thompson Eiland Lucio III Torres Eissler Lyne Truitt Elkins Madden Turner Farias Mallory Caraway Veasey Farrar Margo Villarreal Fletcher Marquez Vo Flynn Martinez Walle Frullo Martinez Fischer Weber Gallego McClendon White Garza Menendez Woolley Geren Miles Workman Giddings Miller of Comal Zedler Gonzales of Hidalgo Miller of Erath Zerwas Speaker of the House I certify that H.R. No. 2618 was adopted by the House on May 30, 2011, by a non-record vote. Chief Clerk of the House