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County executive honors Salisbury firefighters; council advances AED, overdose-response and lab-analyzer grant acceptances
Summary
County Executive Julie Giordano presented a Heartsaver award to Salisbury Fire Department responders and the City Council consented to advance grants for AED replacement, opioid‑response staffing and a point‑of‑care blood analyzer at its Jan. 13 work session.
County Executive Julie Giordano presented a proclamation and a Heartsaver award to members of the Salisbury Fire Department on Jan. 13, thanking first responders for their life‑saving work after her husband suffered a cardiac arrest in December.
Giordano described the response chain—CPR by gym staff, dispatcher guidance, Delmar Fire Department arrival, and the Salisbury Fire Department’s subsequent care—and said her family would be forever grateful. Chief Rob Franton and members of the responding team attended the presentation.
Later in the session, Chief Franton and department leadership briefed the council on several grant-funded purchases and programs and the council gave consensus to accept them and move the related ordinances/amendments forward for formal consideration.
Franton described a $4,000 grant from the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems (MIEMSS) that requires a 50–50 city match; the city’s share will come from an existing budgeted account and the combined $8,000 will fund replacement of five automated external defibrillators (AEDs) from the department’s capital plan.
Franton also presented a larger, reimbursement-style award from the state Office of Overdose Response in the amount of $542,000 to support SWIFT and MDCN teams’ opioid-response work over two years. The chief said the money will pay salaries, supplies, medications, software, and expanded nights-and-weekends coverage for an on-call team working community outreach and response; no city match was required.
Finally, the council consented to accept $13,791 from the Bridal (sic) Maryland Council’s Prosperity Investment Fund to purchase an i-STAT blood laboratory analyzer for mobile/home-visit teams so they can obtain near-instant lab results in patients’ homes and make transport or referral decisions without delay.
Ending: The grants will return as formal ordinance or budget amendments for final acceptance and appropriation; department leaders said they will follow the city’s procurement and reporting rules for matching funds and reimbursement grants.
