JERSEYVILLE - World-renowned educator and experienced paramedic Bob Page drew large crowds from a wide range of areas on Thursday, July 20 and Friday, July 21 for his lecture series with Jersey Community HealthCare. The event’s 80 attendees represented 11 different ambulance services and six area hospitals. Nathan Bishop, EMS & Training Center coordinator with Jersey Community HealthCare, said: “We knew when we decided to put this seminar on, Mr. Page brings people out of the woodwork. He’s world-renowned in this arena.” Hosted in the Jersey Community High School cafeteria, the series covered EKGs and heart function on Thursday, then capnography and lung function on Friday. Bishop said the two-day event went “absolutely amazingly.” “I knew it would be great - I didn’t know how great it would be,” Bishop said. “We had 80 attendees … I was very, very pleased with that, Mr. Page was very, very pleased with that.
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