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EMT June Juday, EMT-I Cheryl Blegen and Paramedic Craig Anderson. |
Kanabec Hospital emergency personnel Craig Anderson, paramedic; Cheryl Blegen, EMT-I; and June Juday, EMT; recently completed a full week of Homeland Security training at the Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) located in Anniston, Alabama.
Those attending CDP training are specially chosen from the nation’s 11 million emergency responders. The three Kanabec Hospital emergency responders were selected, in part, due to their levels of experience with medical emergencies. Craig Anderson has been with the Kanabec Hospital ambulance department for 11 years, Cheryl Blegen has 15 years of emergency medical experience and June Juday has been an EMT for 5 years.
The CDP is operated by the United States Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency and is the only federally-chartered Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) training facility in the nation. Training ensures that responders gain critical skills and confidence to be better prepared to effectively respond to local incidents or potential WMD incidents.
Kanabec Hospital provides a 24-hour-a-day, 7-day-a-week, physician-staffed Emergency Department and Ambulance Service. Nurses and support staff are specially trained and ambulance crews are on-site and immediately ready to respond to any medical emergency.
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