2002 Texas Department of Health EMS Award Angleton Area Emergency Medical Corps, for providing excellent emergency medical services to its community. Serving a 400 square mile area, the 42 members of AAEMC respond to 2,650 calls annually. AAEMC actively educates its community about the dangers of drinking and driving using the Fatal Vision goggles and a wrecked vehicle display sponsored by Allstate Insurance Company and Angleton Fire Department. AAEMC participates in its Sunshine Committee to help members of the community who need assistance with food, clothing and toys for the holidays. AAEMC sponsors rescue classes and other continuing education classes for emergency response personnel. AAEMC has used grant funds to supply Angleton PD and Brazoria County Courthouse with AED's and conducts CPR and AED training for emergency personnel and laypersons. Twelve members of AAEMC are trained in Critical Incident Stress Debriefing, helping local emergency response personnel handle the day-to-day stresses of their jobs. AAEMC and legislation worked together to help pass the Senate Bill 193 "mover over act" that would require vehicles to vacate adjacent lanes or slow down when an emergency vehicle is stopped on the roadway. This legislation could potentially reduce the number of injuries and deaths to emergency responders in Texas. 2004 TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES EMS Angleton Area Emergency Medical Corps, for outstanding achievement in public education and/or injury prevention in Angleton and the surrounding area. Members of AAEMC participate in several educational programs throughout the community, including education about injury prevention, summer safety, seat belt safety and stranger danger. AAEMC has worked with Allstate Insurance and Angleton Fire Department to teach community members about the dangers of reckless driving and driving under the influence of alcohol, by displaying a wrecked vehicle and using Fatal Vision Goggles, which simulate being "under the influence." AAEMC also uses Andy the Ambulance, a small robotic ambulance that is remotely controlled and can interact with the public via a voice modulator, to educate people about being safe. AAEMC provides CPR and first aid training to local businesses, organizations and the public, and trains local law enforcement personnel in AED usage, CPR and first aid. They recently partnered with the local division of the Texas Department of Transportation and the Texas New Mexico Power Company to implement employee heat safety programs, including lectures, brochures and flyers about keeping safe in the extreme Texas summer heat. AAEMC also has been very involved with the local Boy Scouts troops, and provided lead instruction for the Webelos Ready-Man Badge project during a weeklong day camp. AAEMC’s high visibility within its community reminds everyone to be safe, while reassuring them that someone will be there to help in the event of an emergency. 2004 TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES EMS Lucille Maes, LP, Angleton Area Emergency Medical Corps, for leadership in quality prehospital patient care and community emergency response. She is a member of the Southwest Texas EMS Directors Organization and the chair of RAC R, becoming one of the first EMS directors to chair a RAC. As RAC chair, she has assisted regional EMS providers with operations, administration, DSHS rules and RAC information and has assisted some smaller hospitals with bioterrorism planning and drills. She worked diligently with staff at Angleton Danbury Medical Center as that facility worked to reach Level IV trauma designation. She also assisted in the regional planning for bioterrorism funding formulas for the 26 hospitals in RAC R. She is an advisory board member for San Jacinto College and Brazosport Community College, and an ambassador for the Angleton Chamber of Commerce. She is currently the Brazoria County ESD #3 EMS committee chair and on the planning committee for the hospital’s emergency department expansion. During the 2003 Texas legislative session, she worked with state legislators to craft the Move Over Act, a law protecting all emergency response personnel by requiring drivers to slow down below posted speeds when emergency vehicles are working near the roadway. She has been instrumental in getting AAEMC and Angleton Fire Department to train and respond together as sister agencies, despite different funding sources, and as a chamber of commerce committee member, she has worked to raise funds for thermal imaging cameras for AFD. She has also worked with Memorial Hermann LifeFlight to establish a trauma information resource panel to assist prehospital providers with the post-incident patient information needed to properly review the call. She worked with a local accounting firm to establish its own insurance billing company, so that others in the surrounding areas could afford to use the company’s services. 2011 Angleton Chamber of Commerce Angleton Area Emergency Medical Corps was honored with the Angleton Chamber of Commerce Distinguished Leadership Award for 2011. This award is granted to those who show a demonstration of excellence and initative in business or prefession, Those that provide valuable service by contributing time and energey to improve the quality of life for others in the community, those that show evidence of interest in maintaining a visibly appealing workplace, and ethose that exemplify integrity, quality, and a good reputation in the community. We are honored to have recieved this award. The Chamber describes a true leader as "A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, bu becomes one by the quality of his actions and the integrity of his intent."
"An elite group of highly trained individuals dedicated to the preservation of life"
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