Northeastern Wisconsin (NEW)

Regional Trauma Advisory Council (RTAC)

Meeting Minutes

January 16, 2003 9:00-11:30

County Rescue Services

Green Bay, Wisconsin

 

Attendance

Jennifer Gerdmann                               St. Vincent Hospital

Gary Waddle                                         Aurora Medical Center

Patrick Kiefer                                        St. Vincent Hospital

Mark Madigan                                      County Rescue Services

Tiffany Madigan*                                Eagle III

Steve Stroman                                      STAC

Laura Vogel-Schwartz                         Aurora Medical Center

Kim Chamberlin                                    Aurora Baycare Medical Center

Heidi Warpinski                                   St.  Vincent Hospital

Scott Schneider                                    Two Rivers Fire Dept.

John Sponholtz                                    Mishicot Ambulance

Tom Bayer                                             St. Vincent Hospital

Tim Bantes                                            Bay Area Medical Center Ambulance

Lisa Schram                                           Coleman Rescue

Trish Schutte*                                      Coleman Rescue

Ken Johnson                                        Brown County EMS

Joel Ament                                            St. Vincent Hospital

Jeff Wilson                                            Door County Memorial Hospital

E.H. Kastenson                                    Door County EMS

Scott Hathaway                                    Community Memorial Hospital

Marianne Peck                                      DHFS

Eric Peterson                                         Aurora Baycare Medical Center

                                                                                                                                                   

*guests

 

Absent/Excused

Todd Nelson                                         Holy Family Memorial Medical Center

Pepe Anderas                                       Aurora Baycare Medical Center

Chris Sorrells                                        Kewaunee County EMS

Dawn Wolfcal                                       Northeastern Wisconsin Technical College

 

1.  Welcome

      The meeting was called to order at 9:05.

 

2.  Review of Minutes

     The December 11, 2002 minutes were reviewed and accepted.

 

3.  Rules of Conduct  

     The current rules of conduct employed at STAC meetings were reviewed.  Due to                                          

RTAC meetings falling under the umbrella of STAC meetings they must follow open meeting laws unless a motion is made otherwise.  The motion was made to utilize modified Robert’s Rules of Order.  Discussion ensued. Those in attendance voted to utilize modified Robert’s Rules of Order.  Modified is defined as an open forum for the members of the executive council.  Those not on the executive council wishing to address the council will need to be recognized by the chair.  At the beginning of each meeting the chair will recognize significant guests (the State Trauma Coordinator or STAC members) and entertain the motion to grant them open forum.

4.  Executive Council Structure

      Those in attendance voted to use the following executive officer structure.

  • Chair – the executive council voted that co-chairs would fill this position.
  • Secretary
  • Treasurer

       Nominations were accepted for the above positions.  Those nominated for the 2 co-chair positions included; Todd Nelson, Chris Sorrells, Gene Kastenson, and Ken Johnson.  Votes were cast via written ballot and were tallied by Marianne Peck and Tiffany Madigan.  Todd Nelson and Ken Johnson were voted into the co-chair positions.  Jennifer Gerdmann was nominated for and voted in as secretary and Eric Peterson was nominated for and voted in as treasurer.  The executive council officers will serve staggered 2-year terms.  Dr. Johnson will be serving a 1 year term and Dr. Nelson will be serving a 2 year term serving as the lead chair during the second year.  The rest of the executive council members will also hold staggered 2 year positions.  The committee member’s names were listed alphabetically and a number was drawn at random.  The number drawn was 2.  The first name on the list was assigned a 2 the second name assigned a 1 and so on alternating down the list.  Thus the length of term that the committee member would serve was assigned.

 

Results were as follows:

 

Joel Ament                                            2 years  

Tim Bantes                                            1 year

Tom Bayer                                             2 years

Kim Chamberlin                                    1 year                                    

Scott Hathaway                                    2 years

Eugene Kastenson                              1 year                    

Mark Madigan                                      2 years

Lisa Schram                                           1 year

Scott Schneider                                    2 years

Laura Vogel-Schwartz                         1 year

Christopher Sorrells                             2 years

John Sponholtz                                    1 year    

Gary Waddle                                         2 years

Heidi Warpinski                                   1 year

Jeff Wilson                                            2 years

Dawn Wolfcal                                       1 year

 

 

5.  Review of RTAC Application

     Those in attendance reviewed the application provided by STAC.  St. Vincent Hospital will serve as the coordinating facility and Aurora Baycare Medical Center will serve as the fiscal entity.  An extensive discussion ensued regarding the duration and scope of the proposed budget.  It was decided that more information was needed.  The secretary and treasurer were tasked with this.  Follow up will be given at the general membership meeting.  A discussion ensued regarding the performance improvement committee.  Marianne Peck the State Trauma Coordinator expressed that the application needed to discuss what the committee would look like and what it was going to accomplish.  The executive council agreed that the PI committee needed to be designed as all inclusive.  It was decided that the chair of the PI committee should be a member of the executive council.  Anyone who wishes to be considered for the chair position should notify Jennifer Gerdmann.  The candidates will be introduced and an election for chair will be held at the next meeting.

 

6.  Website

      Mark Madigan graciously offered to lend the RTAC website support via County Rescue Services current website.  More information to come.

 

 

7. Meeting Adjourned at 11:35am.