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Indiana “AAMS Chapter” Meeting February 2, 2005 1-2pm Raines Board Room Methodist Hospital Indianapolis, Indiana Attendees: Please see attached information for those present at this meeting. Call to Order: by Rex Alexander, Base Manager, Lutheran Air at 1300 hours. Meeting began with a general discussion on how the “chapter” should establish itself. Rex suggested that the organization could do the following: · Transport Teams that are members would have one vote. · Each transport team could appoint two member representatives · These two member representatives from each transport team would form the board. Mike Poynter from StatCare in Louisville was present and gave information on the Kentucky AAMS chapter. He stated that each vendor/program receives two votes on the board. The plan is to send names of the two people from each program to Nikole Milewski via the Indiana AAMS website www.inaams.com to serve on the board. Officers will be elected from this group of two people from each program. Offices will be: President Vice President Secretary Treasurer Chair of the Board Each of the other members on the Board will be known as representatives. Please come to the next meeting prepared to elect and nominate officers. Organizational Discussion To become an AAMS chapter, it will be necessary to develop by-laws, organizational structure, and elect board members. Everyone agreed to the above items for organization of the board. To be a member of the Indiana AAMS Chapter the following criteria has to be met: · Program has to be a national member of AAMS · Be a certified Critical Care Transport Provider in Indiana by the EMS Commission Kathy Berretta reported that Cathy Harris is investigating the “not for profit” status for the chapter. Rex Alexander provided a quick synopsis of activity thus far in developing the chapter: · First organizational meeting held in Cincinnati at AMTC 2004. · Questions raised at that time about the criteria for membership o What is CCT? Does it require an RN on the team? o Do we want associate members? o How will the by-laws reflect this? · Discussion on the voting process by the Board of one or two votes and what other chapters do to address a fair voting process. It was suggested by someone in attendance that we had a “quorum” present today and we could vote on criteria for membership today. Rex suggested that within 2 weeks each program should identify their representatives for the Board and send those names to Nikole. The total of 18 board representatives should communicate with each other (suggested this be done via the chatroom on the website) for changes to the old by-laws and bring back a recommendation to the next meeting on a final set of new by-laws for this chapter. It was agreed the by-laws should be approved prior to the election of officers from the Board. A question was raised at to expectations of the board of representatives. What will be their duties, length of office, etc. Rex suggested at a minimum to start the board should “meet” either face to face or phone conference every other month. It was agreed to keep the meetings central to Indianapolis at least during the start up of the chapter. Website Development The Indiana AAMS Website is up and running. www.InAAMS.com Everyone gave a special thank you to Nikole Milewski for getting this together. Points of the website: · The hope is to use the website for sharing LZ hazard information through a database, as well as any other pertinent communication related to safety of operations for critical care transport in Indiana. · The website will also contain points of contact for each hospital and transport program so each program will know who to address their safety concerns to. · The website also has a “chat room” for discussion of pertinent information. · A copy of the “old” Indiana AAMS chapter by-laws is on the website. · A link will be added showing the Board of Representatives Before the Next Meeting · Names to Nikole via the website for Board of Representatives · 18 member board to develop a meeting agenda “on-line” using the website chat room with all information to Nikole one week prior to meeting. · Plan to elect officers at next meeting · Have by-laws ready to be presented an approved at next meeting. · Develop a comprehensive list of all air and ground CCT programs in the state General Discussion/Safety Concerns A question was raised about getting a member on the EMS Commission Board from this group and how to do it. The EMS Commission needs to set defined regulations for CCT operations. A suggestion was made to develop a mutual aide process for the benefit of the patients. Concern was brought up over safety in air medical operations. A question was brought up about this group should/would act with the FAA/NTSB. General concern was brought up over programs taking flights other programs had turned down due to weather and how this information could be communicated quickly. The example of the South Carolina incident was used as an example. Everyone was asked to think about ways to improve this process. Everyone seemed to have concerns over how to handle the media and how this group could act to work together to put a consistent safety message to the media. It was reported that the AAMS Spring Conference in Washington, DC would have a one day safety summit as part of 4 day program. Check the www.aams.org website for more information. Look for information related to safety from Johns Hopkins on the Indiana AAMS website. Another discussion point was how this group will be involved in the State Trauma System development. Rex brought up the use of 123.025 radio frequency in Air Medical Helicopter operations. This is a frequency dedicated to helicopter operations and will allow aircraft to communicate to each other in multiple helicopter scenes. Discussion of the Hoosier SAF-T 800mghz system statewide was discussed. The hope would be to get a specific talk group for CCT. Meeting was adjourned at 1415 hours. NEXT MEETING Friday April 8, 2005 1-2pm PHI Offices at Eagle Creek FBO Indianapolis, Indiana | Oct 2004 | February 2005 | April 8 2005 | June 2005 | November 2005 | October 2005 | September 2005 | November 2006 | January 2007 | | Return Home | Events Schedule | Industry Links | Contact Us | Meeting Minutes | SAFETY | Indiana AAMS Board Members | Legislative Affairs | Weather & Flt Planning Links | |
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