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Community Howard Regional Health Foundation donates ambulance to hospital

For release on March 08, 2021

Community Howard Regional Health is pleased to announce the addition of a new ambulance that will strengthen the hospital’s Emergency Medical Services program and its ability to provide emergency care in the community.

The 2021 Ford F550 was purchased by the Community Howard Regional Health Foundation and donated to the hospital in special recognition of the hospital’s 60th anniversary. The truck, which was purchased late last year, was delivered to the hospital in recent days and is now in service.

New ambulance at Howard Regional
L to R: Mark Jacob, EMS Manager, Community Howard Regional Health; Rhonda Eastman, Director, Community Howard Regional Health Foundation; Catherine Kuenzli, Community Howard Regional Health Foundation board president; Alan Girton, Community Howard Regional Health Foundation board member; Joe Hooper, President, Community Howard Regional Health.

“The Community Howard Regional Health Foundation plays a critical role in the hospital’s mission to provide exceptional care to the local community,” said Joe Hooper, President of Community Howard Regional Health. “The addition of this ambulance enhances our capabilities to provide advanced emergency services in Kokomo and the surrounding areas. I want to thank the Foundation for making this significant investment in the safety of the families we serve.”

Community Howard operates three ambulances, responding to an average of 584 calls for service each month in 2020.

“The foundation has been able to support the hospital, its patients and employees for the past 60 years thanks to the generous support of the community,” said foundation board president Catherine Kuenzli. “We are pleased to have been able to donate more than $450,000 in equipment in 2020, which, in addition to this ambulance, includes a number of other items that will have lasting impacts on the health and wellbeing of this community.”

Among other things, items donated by the Foundation in 2020 include technology to expand access to behavioral health services and monitoring equipment that will expand the hospital’s future surge capacity.

About Community Howard Regional Health
Community Howard Regional Health, part of Community Health Network, offers high-quality, patient-centered services close to home. Community offers primary and specialty inpatient and outpatient services in Kokomo, which include an interventional heart program, behavioral health, oncology, orthopedics, pediatrics, emergency, sleep disorders, surgery, wound care, obstetrics and gynecology. To learn more about Community Howard Regional Health, visit eCommunity.com/howard.

George Mast, Director of Business Development , Community Howard
George Mast
Director of Business Development , Community Howard Regional Health