Charlotte County Fire & EMS has been nationally recognized with the American Heart Association’s Mission: Lifeline EMS Gold Achievement Award, department officials announced this week.
The award came for the department’s commitment to offering rapid, research-based care to people experiencing the most severe forms of heart attacks and strokes, ultimately helping save lives and improve patient outcomes across the community, the announcement states.
Mission: Lifeline EMS is a national initiative led by the American Heart Association. It’s focused on improving systems of care for time-sensitive medical emergencies, including ST-elevation myocardial infarctions — known as STEMIs — and strokes…