Members of the SLCH Trauma Team will give this valuable training to interested community members. St. Luke's Cornwall Hospital is the first and only Level III Trauma Center in the Hudson Valley verified by the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Committee on Trauma (COT).
We are offering two sessons on Monday, October 9.
SLCH Newburgh Campus | 10 a.m. | 70 Dubois Street (1st Floor Conference Room)
SLCH Cornwall Campus | 6 p.m. | Littman Cancer Center Radiation Oncology (15 Laurel Avenue, Suite 100)
Launched in October of 2015 by the White House, Stop the Bleed is a national awareness campaign and a call to action. Stop the Bleed is intended to cultivate grassroots efforts that encourage bystanders to become trained, equipped, and empowered to help in a bleeding emergency before professional help arrives.
No matter how rapid the arrival of professional emergency responders, bystanders will always be first on the scene. A person who is bleeding can die from blood loss within five minutes, therefore it is important to quickly stop the blood loss. Those nearest to someone with life threatening injuries are best positioned to provide first care. According to a recent National Academies of Science study, trauma is the leading cause of death for Americans under age 46.
https://www.dhs.gov/stopthebleed
**Please note that all confirmation emails will reference the 10 a.m. session even if you choose 6 p.m. You will be registered in the session that you choose. Thank you!
