SWAINTON– An 87 year-old woman used a Medical Alert Alarm to summon help after she fell in her home and sustained a serious head injury Monday morning.
Medical Alert Alarm’s use a button transmitter that can be worn hanging around the neck. Once the Button is pushed, it contacts a 24 hour monitoring center which then alerts 9-1-1 that someone needs help, according to the company’s website.
Middle Township Police Department spokesman Lieutenant John Edwards said the townships 9-1-1 dispatch received the call from Medical Alert’s monitoring center at 9:39 a.m.
Middle Township’s ambulance service was dispatched to the scene on Birch Drive, with police and AtlantiCare paramedics.
Police arrived on scene and were able to quickly gain entry, Edwards said. The woman was found on the floor bleeding from the head. “The paramedics felt her head injury was serious enough to be flown out by helicopter,” Edwards said.
The unidentified woman was transported to the trauma unit at AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center in Atlantic City by Medevac 5.
More information on Medical Alert Alarms can be found here at www.medicalalert.com
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