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Contact: Caitlin Osmun Phone: 610-398-0239 Ext 511:Cetronia Ambulance Corps 610-398-0239 (Admin)Address: 7355 William Ave. 610-751-1495 (Mobile)Suite 700 Fax: 610-395-2465Allentown, Pa 18106 Email: osmunc@cetronia.org
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CETRONIA AMBULANCE CORPS EMT RECIPIENT OF 2011
“
PA BLSPRACTITIONER OF THE YEAR
” AWARD
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, ALLENTOWN, PA (December 6, 2011)
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ThePennsylvania Department of Health and Pennsylvania Emergency Health ServicesCouncil (PEHSC) held the annual state-wide EMS Awards on Monday, November 21,2011 at the Radisson Penn Harris Convention Center in Camp Hill. William Aull,Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) for Cetronia Ambulance Corps, was named the2011 Pennsylvania Basic Life Support (BLS) Practitioner of the Year.Aull has been involved in EMS and patient care for over 10 years, joining CetroniaAmbulance Corps in 2007. He is an extremely skilled, knowledgeable and compassionateEMS provider that takes great pride in the care he gives and the organization he
represents. “Bill exudes Cetronia’s core values –
leadership, customer focus, communityinvolvement, teamwork, professionalism and integrity
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in everything he does. With hisgenuinely caring demeanor, Bill is able to put each patient and family that he comes intocontact with at ease, making their transport as comfortable as possible and experience
with Cetronia a pleasant one,” said Larry Wiersch, CEO of Cetronia Ambulance Corps.
Aull is very civic-minded and is an active member of the community, serving as amember of the Honor Guard and an advocate for remembering the EMS heroes who losttheir lives during the September 11
th
attacks.
He is also involved with “No One DiesAlone”, a group that provides companions to hospice and end
-of-life patients who do nothave family that they can be with.
“Bill
is an exceptional team member, one in which allEMS providers can learn not only the skills of patient care but also those of deep
compassion and customer service,” added Wiersch.
Prior to his EMS career, Aull proudly served as a PFC in the United States Army and hasworked in the Emergency Department at Sacred Heart Hospital in Allentown.Through their annual EMS Awards, PEHSC recognizes individuals and organizationsthat have demonstrated excellence in providing pre-hospital emergency medical care to-more-
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