- Date
- 1987-01
- Kind
- Occurrence
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- healthcareemergency-managementcommunitycommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
Vivian Visscher’s February 1987 article praised the coordinated care she received after breaking her hip, naming Beaver Island emergency responders, the Medical Center, Island Airways, Charlevoix Ambulance Service, and Charlevoix Area Hospital.
Evidence limits
This is a patient’s first-person appreciation, not a clinical chart, dispatch log, or institutional performance review.
Sources
- Visscher recounts a hip fracture, immediate help from bystanders and EMTs, care at the Medical Center, Island Airways, Charlevoix Ambulance Service, and Charlevoix Area Hospital. It is a first-person newspaper appreciation, not a clinical or dispatch record. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1987-02_Beaver-Beacon
- The held eighteen-page February issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the medical-services article.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1987-02_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island medical and emergency services receive a patient’s praise, 1987”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-medical-services-praised-1987/, accessed [date], citing Vivian Visscher, “Medical Services Praised,” Beaver Beacon, February 1987. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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