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The Penn Medical Emergency Response Team (MERT) is the University of Pennsylvania's student-run volunteer emergency medical services organization, providing care to students, faculty, staff and community members. MERT's primary responsibility is to provide quick-response emergency medical care before Philadelphia Fire Department paramedic units are available to provide patient transport. The secondary purpose of MERT is to provide education to the Penn community, specifically CPR training and alcohol education. == History == MERT was founded in 2006 by four students at the University of Pennsylvania. After witnessing a delayed medical response to an emergency in the quad, Andrew Mener proposed the establishment of an on-campus EMS organization. MERT acquired a membership of 50 who prepared for operations by undergoing bicycle safety training through the (International Police Mountain Biking Association's standards ). MERT's first operational period was Penn's Spring Fling weekend in 2006, where MERT responded to 22 medical calls. This demonstration persuaded university administrators to permit a year-long pilot program.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://pennmert.org/history )〕 The organization was subsequently funded by the University's Vice Provost for University Life, the University's Department of Public Safety, Fox Leadership, and the Undergraduate Assembly. MERT's operational hours at its initiation were weekends only, from Thursday night through Sunday. Starting in the Fall of 2006, MERT extended its service to 7 nights per week during each academic semester. In 2010, MERT relocated from its headquarters in Sansom East, a primarily graduate residence building, to the Quad, which mainly houses freshmen. This relocation was due to unmanageable space constraints, and allowed MERT to have additional room while also allowing MERT to be located closer to many of its calls (which occur in or near the Quad). Despite a failed attempt at obtaining a fly car in 2010, MERT continues to seek administrative approval for new EMS vehicles. In 2012, MERT was officially recognized as a Quick Response agency by the Pennsylvania Department of Health, making it the first University in the Philadelphia region to be recognized as such. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Penn MERT」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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