Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC)

Pediatric Jump Kits for Ambulances Project

Life saving supplies for pediatric patients of all sizes…

organized in one easy to find place.

Background:

The General Federation of Women’s Clubs – Wisconsin (www.gfwc-wi.org) 2006-2008 State Project goal is to fund pediatric jump kits for ambulances across Wisconsin. We are partnering with the Wisconsin EMSC Program and the EMSC Advisory Committee in this project. GFWC-WI clubs have been asked to adopt their local EMS department to assist in funding and equipping their services with the pediatric jump kits. Several clubs plan to adopt more than one EMS department and some clubs are working together to fund ambulances in their County!

For the EMS departments without a nearby participating GFWC-WI club, a limited number of matching grants will be available to help fund these pediatric jump kits. The Wisconsin Organization of Mothers of Twin Clubs wants to help and is making this their Philanthropic Project for the next two years to see how many of these life saving kits we can help purchase.

The pediatric bag:

Based on the Federal EMSC and State of WI Pediatric Equipment and Supplies for Basic/Advanced Life Support Ambulances lists plus a nationally recognized color-coding system, the pediatric jump kit is filled with supplies sized for infants and children in one organized, easily accessible, location. The EMS provider has ready access to the correct sized supplies needed to provide emergency medical services to the young patient(s). The pediatric jump kit has won state and national awards. All ambulances in Waukesha County now carry pediatric jump kits.

Make-A-Wish Foundation is the largest wish-granting charity in the world, with 74 chapters in the United States and its territories and 28 international affiliates spanning five continents. Through private donations and the efforts of more than 25,000 volunteers, The Make-A-Wish Foundation has granted nearly 132,000 wishes around the world since its inception. The Wisconsin chapter was founded in 1984 and more than 2,600 families statewide can attest to the power of a wish.

Wishes are granted to children between the ages of 2 1/2 to 18 who are medically qualified for a wish. THE FOCUS IS ON THE WISH. Wishes provide a special type of medicine for children living with a life threatening medical condition. Instead of enduring medical treatments and hospital visits, a child can focus on his or her one magical wish. One hundred percent of the children who qualify medically for the program, according to the opinion of their doctors, receive their wishes. There has never been a waiting list in Wisconsin due to donations from businesses, charitable trusts, individuals, corporations, foundations and fund-raisers.

The mission of Make -A-Wish Foundation is to grant the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experiences with hope, strength, and joy.

Children's Hospital of Wisconsin is approximately six miles west of downtown Milwaukee on the grounds of the Milwaukee Regional Medical Center. An affiliate of the adjacent Medical College of Wisconsin, the current facility opened in 1988, replacing an aging complex of buildings. Children's Hospital of Wisconsin now houses seven inpatient units, including the 24-bed Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, 22-bed Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, 24-bed Hematology/Oncology/Transplant Unit, 28-bed Short Stay Unit and the Emergency Department/Trauma Center.

As a premier and standard-setting leader in the delivery of pediatric clinical service, education and research, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin advocates for the rights of children, and brings a commitment to excellence to our patients and families, medical staff, employees and communities in addressing the health and well-being of children. Children's Hospital of Wisconsin is a private, independent, not-for-profit, pediatric medical center whose mission is to be one of the nation's premier pediatric hospitals.

* Children's Hospital of Wisconsin is the only hospital in Wisconsin dedicated solely to the care and treatment of children. It also serves as the only trauma center in the state devoted to children and is one of only 14 pediatric Level I Trauma Centers in the United States. Founded in 1894, Children's Hospital serves children with all types of illnesses, injuries, birth defects and other disorders. Care is provided for children from Wisconsin, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, northern Illinois and beyond.

* Children's Hospital of Wisconsin is a private, independent, not-for-profit hospital. It is a major teaching affiliate of the Medical College of Wisconsin and is affiliated with 16 schools of nursing. Several other pediatric education programs also are associated with the hospital.

* Children's Hospital treats thousands of children each year. During 2000, 19,624 infants, children and adolescents were admitted and 194,272 were seen in the hospital's specialty outpatient clinics. The Emergency Department/Trauma Center treated 54,082 children and 11,965 surgical procedures were performed.

* More than 70 specialty clinics provide outpatient diagnosis and treatment for a wide variety of pediatric disorders. Specialty clinics include cardiology, cleft lip and palate, diabetes, ear, nose and throat, laser, oncology and plastic surgery.

* Children's Hospital is a leader in bone marrow transplants, particularly between unrelated donors and recipients, and in the care of critically ill newborns.

* Several regional centers are based at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin. These include the Midwest Children's Cancer Center, the Heart Center, the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Poison Center and the Child Protection Center.

* The Infant Death Center of Wisconsin provides information, counseling and support throughout Wisconsin to families whose infants have died suddenly and unexpectedly. The center also educates professionals and the public about grief and works to improve the health status of infants and reduce the number of infant deaths.

* Children's Transport stabilizes critically ill children and brings them to Children's Hospital by helicopter, jet or ambulance. Among the cases brought to the hospital by Children's Transport are accident victims, premature infants, newborns requiring immediate surgery, children who have ingested poison and other critically ill youngsters.