- Date
- 2005-07
- Kind
- Accident
- Carried out by
- Beaver Island Emergency Services Authority · Beaver Island Rural Health Center
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- healthcareemergency-managementpublic-servicefamilycommunitycommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
In late July 2005, during a Gatliff family stay at the Beaver Island convent, one of the boys reportedly fell through a double-pane glass window and suffered a serious neck laceration. The family publicly thanked Beaver Island EMS and the Beaver Island Rural Health Center for their response.
Evidence limits
This record rests on a firsthand family thank-you. It documents the family’s account and the institutions they credited, but not a complete clinical or emergency-response record; the child’s identity is intentionally not inferred.
Sources
- A family member reported that one of the boys fell headfirst through a double-pane glass window at the convent, suffered a severe neck laceration, and received emergency care from Beaver Island EMS and BIRHC. The post is a firsthand family thank-you and does not provide an EMS run sheet, medical record, patient identity, or independently verified injury assessment.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 00 · t000407
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Gatliff family reports a near-fatal window accident at the Beaver Island convent, 2005”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-gatliff-family-convent-window-accident-2005/, accessed [date], citing Shirley Gatliff Cole, “Gatliff Family Thanks,” Beaver Island Forum, August 1–3, 2005..
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