Published March 21. 2024 12:14PM
By LOU WHEELAND
Special to The Press
Members of the Upper Lehigh Lions Club presented $6,000 to Northern Valley EMS (NOVA) for four binder lifts during their March 13 meeting at Jordan United Church of Christ, South Whitehall.
These devices are designed to help patients who are found in a sitting position.
Raising a patient to a standing position is much safer for both patients and EMS personnel when using the binder lift.
Upper Lehigh Lions Club presented a check for $6,000 for four binder lifts to NOVA on March 13, at Jordan UCC, South Whitehall. Kristi Wendling, executive director of NOVA, Howard Schwartz, NOVA director of operations, holding a binder lift, Upper Lehigh Lions Club President Ken Zimmerman and Ron Smith, chairman of the Community Development Committee, attended the presentation. PRESS PHOTO BY LOU WHEELAND
Upper Lehigh Lions Club Secretary Bill Rabe, volunteered to be the fall victim as Kristi Wendling, executive director, and Howard Schwartz, director of Operations, both with Northern Valley EMS, show how binder lifts help both the patient and EMS personnel. PRESS PHOTOS BY LOU WHEELAND
Members of the Upper Lehigh Lions Community Outreach Committee Erin Heintzelman, Chairwoman Pam Haas and Ollie Newhard hold gifts given to the Jared Box Project, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit that donates boxes of small gifts, toys, games, crayons, coloring books and fun activities to children in hospitals.
