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Ambulance teams from Community EMS carry Botsford support to Katrina victims.

Farmington Hills, Mich., September 6, 2006 -- Five Community EMS ambulances and crews along with a support vehicle stocked with supplies left Michigan yesterday for Baton Rouge, La., to aid victims of Katrina.
Community EMS has made an agreement with the Federal Emergency Management Agency to maintain five vehicles and crews in the region for at least 30 days. Crews will be comprised of employees of Community EMS and its corporate partners, Regional EMS, HealthLink and Community Ambulance Service, who had volunteered for the disaster relief duty. Crews will rotate in and out of the region due to the difficult working conditions they expect to encounter.
The vehicles are also transporting 360 gallons of water donated by McKesson Medical, Botsford General Hospital’s entire stock of Hepatitis A vaccine, and nearly $500,000 of medical supplies donated by Botsford, CEMS and its partners.

The Botsford Health Care Continuum is an integrated system of care that includes Botsford General Hospital, the Botsford Physician Network, Community Emergency Medical Service, the Botsford Continuing Care Corporation and the Botsford Center for Health Improvement. The Botsford site on the internet is www.botsfordsystem.org.