Scottsdale Healthcare’s Military Partnership Advances Military Medical Personnel Training with EMS Technology

Exton, PA, April 28, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Scottsdale Healthcare Military Partnership will use Education Management Solutions’ (EMS) simulation management technology in its new Military Training Center located on the Scottsdale Healthcare Osborn Medical Center campus in Scottsdale, Arizona. The 7,500-square- foot Military Training Center features high-tech human simulators that bleed and imitate battlefield trauma injuries to provide hands-on training to military medical personnel.

Scottsdale Healthcare, one of the first community hospitals in the nation to provide military trauma training, is a model for other hospitals and military bases in preparing military medical personnel while building relationships that can be used in possible disaster response situations. Scottsdale Healthcare’s Military Partnership, created in 2004, has provided more than 1,000 military medical personnel with the skills and experience needed to perform successfully under wartime conditions. With the addition of EMS’ SIMXpress, a simulation management and audio-video recording solution, military medical personnel will have the ability to improve their clinical and technical skills, and build their behavioral skills such as leadership, communication, and team work, which are necessary in trauma and disaster scenarios.

EMS’ SIMXpress is a portable, wireless, web-based, audio-video recording, performance evaluation, and data management solution. According to Vance Nesbitt, Scottsdale Healthcare Military Partnership Medical Simulations Coordinator, “SIMXpress is versatile enough to take out of the lab and into the field, enabling us to create more challenging and realistic field medical emergency scenarios. It will enable us to better record, view and evaluate military medical personnel during emergency scenarios.”

About Education Management Solutions, Inc. (EMS) http://www.EMS-works.com
Medical, nursing, and allied health schools, counseling programs, and hospitals use EMS’ Arcadia suite of products to more efficiently manage clinical simulation centers, effectively evaluate learner performance, and digitally document simulated events. As the leader in simulation management technology since its founding in 1994, EMS offers complete turnkey solutions that include integrated software and hardware, design and planning, engineering, configuration, and installation through training and support.

About Scottsdale Healthcare, www.shc.org
Scottsdale Healthcare is the community-based, nonprofit parent organization of the Scottsdale Healthcare Osborn Medical Center, Scottsdale Healthcare Shea Medical Center and Scottsdale Healthcare Thompson Peak Hospital, Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center at Scottsdale Healthcare, Scottsdale Healthcare Research Institute and Scottsdale Healthcare Foundation. A leader in medical innovation, talent and technology, Scottsdale Healthcare was founded in 1962 and is based in Scottsdale, Arizona. For more information, visit www.shc.org.

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EMS Contact:
Dushy Edrisinghe, Director- Marketing
Dushy.Edrisinghe@ems-works.com
610-701-7002 x 218

Scottsdale Healthcare Contact:
Jo-an Holstein, Public Relations
Jholstein@shc.org 480-882-4543