Richmound Stretcher

Richmound is a small community west of Fox Valley. The Mayor Brad Miller reached out to the Foundation for help with fundraising for a power stretcher for the Richmound EMS team, which his wife Arlene is a part of.

“My name is Arlene and my husband Brad is the Mayor of Richmound where our Richmound EMS team is stationed. We are a team of 4 ladies and Brad must have heard me complain one to many times about how hard it is getting to do manual lifting as statistically our clients are getting heavier, so he started asking around if we could get local support to get a power stretcher. We do a lot of transfers with clients who are not able to bear their weight and the older I get the harder it was for me, I won’t speak for the other ladies. With our manual stretcher it was a one person lift into the ambulance because one of us had to lift up the legs as the other one lifted the full weight. With this new power stretcher we can do a two person lift because the legs fold up with the press of a button. We are so grateful for all the monetary support we have received from our community as well as our neighbouring RM’s we could not have got it otherwise. Thank You as well to Dr Irwin Noble Foundation for your support, greatly appreciated!”