Local Authority Building & Maintenance’s Post

Whilst working on our Salix funded project for Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, military style planning was essential to meet efficiency targets for the hospital building whilst working around live wards. Procured via the Pagabo Medium Works Framework, the works needed to replace its single glazed windows with thermally efficient double glazing. Many of the windows are on occupied hospital wards each with eight beds. Without the capacity to decant an entire ward to another space, only the patients from the two beds nearest the windows were relocated during the works. Click here to read more on this story: https://lnkd.in/eQ-qgjqs #AsheGroup #buildingbetter

🇪🇺The European Civil Protection Pool (#ECPP) is a collection of emergency response teams and assets. Countries that participate in the Union Civil Protection Mechanism make these resources available for collective European emergency response operations. In return, they can benefit from EU financial support. The Pool includes resources such as urban search and rescue teams, forest fire fighting capacities, emergency medical teams, water purification equipment, high-capacity pumping units, etc. Resources in the Pool are available for immediate deployment worldwide, following a request for assistance through the European Commission's Emergency Response Coordination Centre. The resources are of a certified quality, which is tested in EU-funded exercises. They are generally self-sufficient for several days and interoperable in terms of procedures and technical infrastructure. In addition, key staff is trained through the training program of the Union Civil Protection Mechanism. The medical teams and equipment within the Pool make up the European Medical Corps. The European Medical Corps includes experts, mobile biosafety laboratories, medical evacuation capacities, etc. Overall, Member States and Participating States in the Union Civil Protection Mechanism have currently offered 139 capacities in the Pool (October 2024) #ECPP #europe #eusavesifes #teamMREI

The UK National Audit Office has released its latest report on the challenges and current state of maintaining public service facilities. Key points: - A maintenance backlog of public service facilities has grown significantly, now at £49 billion - Ministry of Defence properties, Schools and Hospitals and other NHS sites face the largest backlogs - Historic under-investment, inflationary pressures, and loss of income due to the COVID-19 pandemic have contributed to the increase in the maintenance backlog Full report can be found here: https://lnkd.in/epGaUujw Credit to UK National Audit Office ⬇️ #publicservices #NAO 

Access to health care is essential for Oregon veterans, especially those who live in rural areas, and the Oregon Department of Veterans' Affairs is committed to help! Through the help of state and federal funding, ODVA administers two programs aimed at ensuring medical-related transport is available to veterans living in rural areas: 🚗 The Rural Veterans Health Care Transportation Grant Program (state-funded) 🚐 The Highly Rural Transportation Grant Program (federally funded) Through these programs, veterans can enjoy no-cost rides to and from their medical appointments, picked up and brought right back to their doorstep. Transportation services are provided by local partners in each participating county. Visit https://lnkd.in/gq6j6zSF or connect with your county veteran services office to learn more. #oregonvet #odva #transportationservices #veterantransportation #veteranhealthcare

Memorial Day can be challenging period of time for those in senior living communities. It's important to allow time of reflection during the celebratory day. Learn more about celebrating Memorial Day in your senior living communities with an article by The Shores. https://buff.ly/3yssn3L #MemorialDay #SeniorLiving #Veterans #Hospitality #ShopTalk2020

Access to health care is essential for Oregon Veterans, especially those that live in rural areas, and the Oregon Department of Veterans' Affairs is committed to help! Through the help of state and federal funding, ODVA administers two programs aimed at ensuring medical-related transport is available to veterans living in rural areas: 🚗 The Rural Veterans Health Care Transportation Grant Program (state-funded) 🚐 The Highly Rural Transportation Grant Program (federally funded) Through these programs, veterans can enjoy no-cost rides to and from their medical appointments, picked up and brought right back to their doorstep. Visit https://lnkd.in/gq6j6zSF or connect with your county veteran services office to learn more. #oregonvet #odva #transportationservices #veterantransportation #veteranhealthcare

This Veterans Day, we honor the brave men and women who have served our nation. Their service extends beyond the battlefield, profoundly shaping emergency medicine and prehospital care. Military research has revolutionized how we respond to emergencies, particularly with trauma and in wilderness and austere environments. Techniques like tourniquet use, trauma care, and hypothermia management—developed in military settings—are now lifesaving tools in both civilian and remote medical contexts. At the Mountain Training Network, our Wilderness Medicine brand, we proudly carry this legacy forward. Our curriculum is built on the latest clinical practice guidelines and enriched by the expertise of Colin MacDonald (pictured below), a Marine veteran and one of our Wilderness Medicine textbook authors. His unique perspective bridges the gap between military and civilian wilderness medicine, equipping responders to face the most extreme conditions. This shared knowledge doesn’t happen in isolation. Organizations like the Wilderness Medical Society (WMS) and the United States Department of Defense Defense Health Agency (DHA) work together to ensure that advancements in military medicine benefit wilderness and civilian providers alike. Their collaboration has been instrumental in developing Prolonged Field Care (PFC) guidelines, which empower medical providers to deliver effective care in delayed evacuation scenarios—crucial for both military operations and wilderness expeditions. At Capital City CPR, we incorporate these advancements across all our courses. From First Aid/CPR, where we include STOP THE BLEED® at no extra cost, to advanced programs like Wilderness First Aid and Industrial First Responder, our training reflects the latest in lifesaving techniques. Today, we honor the lasting contributions of our veterans to emergency care and express our deepest gratitude for their service. #VeteransDay #WildernessMedicine #ProlongedFieldCare #STOPTHEBLEED #TECC #MountainTrainingNetwork #CapitalCityCPR

Our final installment of provider interviews, "The Heart of a Locum: Continuing to Serve in Emergency Medicine," details our discussion with an emergency medicine physician who discovered locum tenens during his 30 years of service in the United States Army. https://bit.ly/3M8nu3z #locumtenensweek #locumtenens #VeloSource #emergencymedicine #healthcare #healthcarestaffing 

🚒 Four U.K. fire and rescue services (FRSs) - Hereford and Worcester FRS, Shropshire FRS, Cleveland Fire Brigade and Country Durham & Darlington FRS - have selected #MotorolaSolutions to deploy a new Control Room Solution (CRS).It integrates workflows, from initial call-taking to dispatch, into an intuitive and unified response system to help control room staff respond more quickly to incidents, especially in times of high demand. Read more: https://bit.ly/3V2vvf1

#TBT – Did you know? On this week, four years ago, the 250,000 square-foot Miami Beach Convention Center was converted into a 450-bed field hospital, including 400 acute care patient rooms, 50 isolation pods, nursing stations, an onsite laboratory and pharmacy, and support areas… in less than two weeks! The project was part of the US Army Corps of Engineers' effort to alleviate pressure on local hospitals from the anticipated surges of COVID-19 patients. By calling on years of healthcare planning and design experience, utilizing an accelerated design-build process, and relying on expedited supply efforts, this project was completed more than a full day ahead of schedule. To learn more about how the design-build team of Robins & Morton and RLF worked together to pull off this incredible transformation, click https://bit.ly/3U2x8Is #TBT #ConventionCenterConversion #COVIDReliefEfforts #DesignBuildChallenge #HealthcareHeroes #Teamwork #HealthcareArchitects #RLFaei