AGRIMEDsm Provider Training Course
For Fire/Rescue/EMS Personnel
UPCOMING CLASS on September 20th 2008 in Franklinton, LA
The Mission: AGRIMED Training Inc. is to design, develop, implement, and evaluate training programs for emergency providers and agricultural workers to reduce mortality, injury, and property loss resulting from agricultural emergencies.
Our purpose is to reduce the injuries and mortality associated with farming emergencies. AGRIMED Training Inc. was established in 1981 in New York State to train fire, rescue, and EMS providers. Presently over 22,000 personnel have been trained throughout the United States and Canada since 1981.
Objective: Upon successful completion of the provider Training Course, participants will be qualified to provide emergency medical services specific to agricultural emergencies. The course provides hands-on practice based experience for candidates.
The National AGRIMED Training Program has been working in agricultural and rural incident response training for over two decades. Initial activities began in 1981 when the New York Farm Bureau, Empire Nine (a regional emergency services training program), Farm Family Insurance Company and rural fire/rescue/EMS personnel got together to discuss the void in farm rescue education. Two troubling regional trends instigated this gathering of forces: (1) farm machinery extrications were often taking a long time - too long - to complete, and (2) rescuers were injured, some fatally, during rescues and fire-ground operations on farms.
From the onset, a train-the-trainer approach was adopted as the strategy to educate rural rescuers to respond to fire and medical emergencies specific to farms. In the 1990's, the National AGRIMED Training Program partnered with Alfred State College, Alfred, NY, and the NYS Department of Health, Albany, NY. This partnership generated a major grant from U.S. Health and Human Services to train 200 instructors nationwide. Since its inception, more than 28,000 rural fire/rescue/EMS, hospital personnel and farm community members in 48 states and Canada have been trained how to respond to farm emergencies.
In July of 2007 the program was transferred to its current home at McNeil and Company Inc., located in Cortland, NY. McNeil and Company is an industry leader in insurance and risk services for fire and emergency medical service agencies across the country. The new home will provide the program with consistent management, resources and vision for the future. It will also provide for growth in the current offerings and new programs as we move forward.
Southeast LA AHEC has contributed to the success of the program to date, and is a certified Agrimed trainer in Louisiana. Southeast LA AHEC will come on-site to any fire department throughout the state. The Agrimed Program is responsible for the lives of the agricultural community and prepares rural emergency responder. Call (985) 345-1119 to discuss.
