Behind the Emergency Response, LCFD Partnership Helps Keep Units Available

LCFD’s Mobile Integrated Health Team recently worked with Mesilla Valley Hospice to provide training for its non-emergency patient transfer service.

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As the Las Cruces Fire Department marks Labor Day by recognizing the people whose work keeps the community running, a recent partnership with Mesilla Valley Hospice offers a glimpse at some of the less-visible work that helps keep emergency services available.

LCFD’s Mobile Integrated Health Team recently worked with Mesilla Valley Hospice to provide training for its non-emergency patient transfer service.

The training included gurney operations, safe patient movement and driving practices for the hospice service’s driver.

By allowing non-emergency hospice transfers to be handled outside the emergency response system, LCFD says the partnership helps keep fire department units available for calls requiring an emergency response.

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The effort is part of the department’s broader Mobile Integrated Health work, which brings emergency medical expertise into community-based care and partnerships outside a traditional 911 response.

LCFD used its Labor Day message to recognize firefighters and first responders alongside healthcare workers, teachers, tradespeople, business owners and others working throughout the community.

While LCFD administrative offices will be closed Monday in observance of Labor Day, emergency services will continue operating normally. Regular administrative hours resume at 8 a.m. Tuesday.