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Student volunteers will pair up with a lo cal Emergency Medical Service station and make regular visits to frequent EMS users to monitor their health and provide social interaction. This saves local EMS time and resources, while keeping these commu nity members’ best in terests in mind. “The idea is not unique to us,” said Cody Blount, a lieutenant with the South Brazos County Fire Depart ment and EMS Coor dinator for the Brazos County Firefighters As sociation. “It is actually kind of piggybacking off of the concept which was started by several other EMS agencies around the state.” The idea behind CHIP is to identify indi viduals in Bryan-College Station who are fre quent EMS users and who also have chronic healthcare problems. A paramedic is sent out to go visit with them on a regular basis. The paramedic will help the patient with their pre scription needs so they can keep their chronic conditions under control. “This keeps the patient’s chronic condi tions as prevented from becoming exacerbat ed to the point that they need the EMS system and a transport to the hospital,” Blount said. Often, however, the problems they assist with are more complex than just helping with prescriptions. “For a lot of these individuals, there are psycho-social needs that aren’t being met, and the contact with the EMS agency that trans ports them is the only interaction that they have with anybody,” Blount said. Blount said student volunteers with CHIP will enable local EMS to better provide preventa tive care to those who need it in the commu nity. “In this area, I don’t have the resources to send a paramedic out to visit somebody two or three times a week, but the resource that I do have is students at Tex as A&M University,” Blount said. A student’s job in the CHIP program will be similar to what the paramedics do in similar programs. They will go out and visit with these individuals to provide social interaction, assist with logistic support for helping them to arrange transportation to their doctors’ appointments and help them to keep up with their prescrip tions. “As far as the application process, it is still being fine-tuned, but we will definitely need people who will be here over the summer, for the sake of continuity,” said Bhaskari Burra, biomedical sciences senior and A&M pre medical society president. The program is set to launch April 1. Any interested students should contact the A&M pre-medical society for further information. "In this area, I don't have the resources to send a paramedic out to visit somebody two or three times a week, but the resource that I do have is students at Texas A&M University." Cody Blount, Lt., South Brazos County Fire Department Former transportation secretary to visit campus Wednesday By Sam King T exas A&M will welcome Raymond “Ray” LaHood, for mer U.S. transporta tion secretary and life long Republican, for a Wednesday lecture, titled “Reaching Across the Aisle: The Challenge to Governing.” Lahood, who hails from Illinois, will also re ceive the Mosbacher Institute Good Gover nance award, which recognizes those “who are essentially exemplars for what we want our students to become — people that are able to make good decisions that are evi dence-based, that are not driven by ideol ogy, but rather by analysis,” said Lori Taylor, Mosbacher Institute director. Taylor said his lecture will likely discuss the challenges of getting things done for America in a partisan government. Taylor said his ability to be effective despite not be ing in the president’s party is impressive, and he was chosen to introduce students to role models in government. “We are trying to expose our students to people who have been leading players in the ad ministrative or executive branch of the federal gov ernment,” Taylor said. Taylor said that while , the event is open to the public, students inter ested in government will be particularly interested in attending. “Any student that’s interested in politics, in government, in transportation would, I think, get a great deal out of it,” Taylor said. “I’m told — I have not met Secretary La- Hood before -— but I’m told he is a very dynamic and interesting speaker. We try to make sure that we get someone who’s not just a big name but is also a ‘good get.’ Someone who’s a real effective, entertaining speaker.” The lecture begins at 5:30 p.m. Wednes day in the George Bush Presidential Library Auditorium. 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