Cheshire Medical Center

EMS Champions: Anytime. Anywhere.

Help us recognize EMS Week (May 16-22). Twenty-four different EMS services provide highly skilled out-of-hospital emergency care in this community, bringing care to those who need it most. EMS works hand-in-hand with Cheshire Medical Center/Dartmouth-Hitchcock Keene to care for patients from pre-hospital through discharge. EMTs and paramedics are at the forefront of every medical emergency: automobile accidents, heart attacks, slips and falls, childbirth, or gunshot wounds. Their work is physically strenuous, stressful, and involves human suffering and life-or-death crises. Nonetheless, with pride, skill, and compassion—24 hours a day, 365 days a year—EMS is at home and work, indoors and out, in all types of weather.

Front row: Allison Woods-Baker (Marl Harris Ambulance); Tim Reed (Swanzey Fire Department); Phyliss Manning (Marl Harris Ambulance); Norm Skantze (Swanzey Fire Department); Randy Beaton (Keene Fire Department); Eric Hood (Marl Harris Ambulance) Middle Row: Buzz Shaw (Richmond Fire Department); Anton Elbers (Alstead Ambulance) Top Row: Mike Goodwin (Diluzio Ambulance); Jeff Chickering (Keene Fire Department); Craig Mattson (Keene Fire Department).