PROCLAMATION

• Emergency medical services is a vital public service.
• The members of emergency medical services teams are ready to provide lifesaving care to those in need 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
• Access to quality emergency care dramatically improves the survival and recovery rate of those who experience sudden illness or injury.
• The emergency medical services system consist of emergency physicians, emergency nurses, emergency medical technicians, paramedics, firefighters, educators, administrators, and others.
• The members of emergency medical services teams, whether career or volunteer, engage in thousands of hours of specialized training and continuing education to enhance their lifesaving skills.
• It is appropriate to recognize the value and the accomplishments of emergency medical services providers by designating Emergency Medical Services Week.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, John W. Morrison, Mayor of Ashland, hereby proclaim the week of May 15 - 21, 2005 as

NATIONAL EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES WEEK

and call upon the people of Ashland to celebrate the accomplishments of EMS providers, and to remember, as the 2005 National Emergency Medical Services Week theme suggests:

"EMS: READY, RESPONSIBLE, RELIABLE"

Dated this 3rd day of May, 2005
Barbara Christensen, City Recorder
John W. Morrison, Mayor

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