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This page is intended to provide our community with information about Whitemarsh Community Ambulance Association's (WCAA) response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Protecting Our Patients
Personal Protective Equipment
Our crews are following recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Pennsylvania Department of Health (DOH) for the personal protective equipment (PPE) we use on every patient encounter.
Sanitizing Our Equipment
All equipment that is in contact with a patient (e.g., stretcher, cardiac monitor, blood pressure cuff) is thoroughly cleaned between every patient encounter. The patient compartments of our ambulances are sanitized regularly using a "fogging" method.
Regular Updates
We receive regular updates from the Montgomery County Emergency Operations Center (EOC) and Department of Public Safety (DPS). This includes situation reports and protocol updates. This information is disseminated to our crews during regular all-staff conference calls. We are also in regular contact with other area ambulance squad chiefs through the Montgomery County Ambulance Association.
Uniform Policy
In order to protect first responder families, our crews are wearing street clothing into work, changing into their uniforms for their shift and then leaving their uniforms to be washed at the station and not brought back to their homes or around their families. WCAA had to purchase a new washer and dryer in order to keep up with the demand.
Visitation Policy
While we don't want to keep friends away, we have insituted a new policy of no visitors at the station. This includes off-duty personnel. Only on-duty personnel may be at the station.
Self-Monitoring
Crews are able to take their temperature at the beginning and end of each shift as “self monitoring” for COVID-19
