Regional Health Involved in Program to Offer State-of-the-Art Emergency Training

Regional Health is partnering with the South Dakota Department of Health, Avera McKennan, Sanford Health, and St. Mary’s Healthcare Center to develop the Partnership for Emergency Patient Care (PEPC) program.
PEPC utilizes human patient simulators as the primary mode of education instruction and has the potential to greatly benefit emergency care providers by providing timely, hands-on, on-site, state-of-the-art training in rural communities across the state.  
“Continuing to train the emergency care providers and pre-hospital personnel throughout the state is so important,” said Charles E. Hart, M.D., M.S., President and CEO of Regional Health. “Through this program, we can enhance the accessibility of timely, hands-on, on-site training throughout the state, with special attention being paid to our rural areas.”
The program will create three mobile learning labs to provide training to various rural areas in South Dakota. Those mobile labs include a human patient simulator as the primary method of teaching.
Financial assistance from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust will make the development of this program possible.