The individuals being honored this year join 195 others previously honored by the Service. EMS Week, Las Cruces Style by Kate Dernocoeur EMS Week in the city of Las Cruces, New Mexico will begin on Monday, May 21, with a proclamation at City Council chambers to acknowledge the weeklong celebration. On Tuesday, the County Commissioners get to add their congratulations. EMS in this hot, high-desert city just 40 miles north of the Mexico border will be highly visible all week but the best part will have to wait until Saturday, May 26, when it will culminate with the biggest party around. Your squad transports a frail elderly gentleman from a long-term care facility.
Chief complaint includes productive cough, chest pain, loss of appetite, and low-grade fever.
Within one hour, the patient is delivered to an acute care hospital and subsequently admitted for possible pneumonia. It all started one sunny afternoon. It was another day of the strange and bizarre call in Med-Act 6 land. Linda and I were dispatched to a call in Gardner, America for a code 2 laceration at 201 N. Ott Ln. He called me late one afternoon.