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A community health initiative partnership will assist high risk patients.
New program will allow
A&M students hands-on
EMS experience
By Zachary Grinovich
Students no longer need to wait un
til graduation to make an impact in the
medical field.
A new program called the Community
Health Initiative Partnership, or CHIP, will
provide a way for students to get medical ex
perience through preventative medicine —
providing resources so patients don’t have to
call 911 in the first place.
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. A short reception will be held a
half hour before the lecture.
Raymond "Ray" LaHood
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