Items Tagged ‘Gold Cross’
November 20, 2018
Real Life Superheroes Team up in Battle of the Badges
By In the Loop 
A friendly competition among first responders that runs through December is all for a good cause: blood donation, which is especially important this time of year.
Tags: Gold Cross, Kate Arms, Kevin Torgerson, Mayo Clinic Blood Donor Program, Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Olmsted County Sheriff's Office, Rochester Police Department
June 14, 2018
Full-Time EMT, Part-Time Polka Practitioner
By In the Loop
As a paramedic, Kris Keltgen knows that making people feel comfortable and building relationships is important for his work. He uses those same skills during his off hours as the lead in a local polka band.
Tags: Gold Cross, Kris Keltgen, Mayo Clinic Medical Transport
March 13, 2018
Gold Cross Staffer’s Gold Medal Connection
By In the Loop
Among the many fans cheering on the USA men’s Olympic curling team was Gold Cross operations manager Dave Johnson, a fellow member of the Duluth Curling Club, home of the gold medalists.
Tags: Gold Cross, Mayo Medical Transport
December 5, 2017
Gold Cross Staffer Bringing Mayo Clinic Values to Humanitarian Work
By In the Loop
For the past four years, Gold Cross Ambulance supervisor Chad Schmitz has donated his time and medical expertise as a member of the Minnesota Disaster Medical Assistance Team.
October 5, 2017
Ambulance Donation Program Helps Turn Humanitarian Dreams Into Reality
By In the Loop
Felix Daubige knows firsthand that access to medical care in West Africa is limited. It’s why he started a foundation to send donated medical supplies — and now a Gold Cross ambulance — to his homeland.
Tags: Gold Cross, Matt Will, Mayo Clinic Health System in Red Wing
March 9, 2017
House Call Makes a Comeback With Help From Community Paramedics
By In the Loop
Mike DiPasquale is grateful, to say the least, for the return of the house call in his neck of the woods. He recently underwent a “rare, risky operation in which doctors performed a complete reconstruction of his hip and part of his pelvis,” the Barron News-Shield reports. The procedure left Mike confined to a wheelchair […]
Tags: Gold Cross, Justin Bowe, Marlene Dirkes, Mayo Clinic Health System
July 14, 2016
A River Runs Through Him – A Hospice Patient’s Sentimental Return to the Water’s Edge
By In the Loop
The Mississippi River runs through Lee Graham’s memories. He and his wife, Shirley, owned a cabin on the river for decades. It’s where his kids learned to waterski, and where he spent many sunny days boating and fishing with family and friends. And for years, it was the first place he’d head after clocking out […]
Tags: Gold Cross, hospice, Sentimental Journeys
September 4, 2014
Australian Paramedic Students Hop on Board With Gold Cross
By In the Loop
You’ve heard the old axiom, “Sharing is caring.” Aside from schools and playgrounds, that’s perhaps nowhere more important than in health care. And as AM 1240 WJON in St. Cloud, Minnesota, reported recently, our friends at Gold Cross have been holding true to that by hosting paramedic students from La Trobe University in Bendigo, Australia, […]
Tags: Education, Gold Cross, Paramedics
July 24, 2014
Behind the scenes with Gold Cross at Country Jam
By In the Loop
What happens when 90,000-some country music fans descend on Eau Claire, Wisconsin, to show their love and appreciation for country stars like Jake Owen, Luke Bryan, Dierks Bentley, The Band Perry, and others? Why, Country Jam, of course — “Wisconsin’s premier country music festival.” Behind the scenes, lots of folks are working to ensure those […]
Tags: Eau Claire, Glenn Lyden, Gold Cross, Tom Fennell