{"id":1939,"date":"2013-11-15T19:21:32","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T19:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/?p=1939"},"modified":"2013-11-15T19:21:32","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T19:21:32","slug":"tom-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/tom-judge\/","title":{"rendered":"Show 87: Executive Director of LifeFlight of Maine Tom Judge"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Show Information<\/h5>\n

Show:<\/strong>\u00a087
\nAir date:<\/strong> Saturday,\u00a0November 9
\nGuest:<\/strong>\u00a0Tom Judge
\nHost:<\/strong> Steve Woods (Stevoe)
\nStudio Contributor<\/strong> Debi Davis
\nExecutive Producer:<\/strong> Mark Gould (Sharky)
\nAssistant Producer:<\/strong> Shannon Maguire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Executive Director of LifeFlight of Maine<\/a>, Tom Judge, grew up outside of Chicago.\u00a0 In college, Judge was an english major and envisioned becoming a poet.\u00a0 Instead, he began his career in emergency care as a primary paramedic care provider.\u00a0 In 2003, Judge began work at LifeFlight of Maine.\u00a0\u00a0LifeFlight of Maine is a non-profit hospital-based emergency medical helicopter critical care system.\u00a0 LifeFlight services every hospital in Maine, as well as providing primary response to accident scenes and medical emergencies in remote areas.\u00a0 Judge talked wtih Stevoe about how LifeFlight provides access to care with first responders that is no difference if you are on Main Street in Portland or Main Street in Jackman.<\/p>\n

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TideSmart Talk with Stevoe host Steve Woods (left) recently sat down with Executive Director of LifeFlight of Maine\u00a0Tom Judge (right).<\/p><\/div>\n

In addition, Judge also serves as the Executive Director of the LifeFlight Foundation.\u00a0 This foundation is a non-profit charitable organization that funds aircraft, medical equipment, aviation infrastructure and outreach education services to hospital and EMS providers in Maine. \u00a0LifeFlight has been nationally recognized for quality, safety and innovative excellence in community service.\u00a0 Judge was named \u201cProgram Director of the Year\u201d by the International Association of Air Medical Services in 2011.<\/p>\n

A practicing paramedic, Judge has volunteered for the St. George Volunteer Fire & Ambulance Association for more than 30 years. \u00a0He is the former Board Chair of Maine EMS, and the State Regulatory and Licensing Agency. \u00a0Judge has worked extensively in both the public and non-government sectors and has a wide background in the design and implementation of emergency medical care systems.<\/p>\n

Judge currently serves as the chair of the Association of Critical Care Transport. He has been involved in EMS program development across the U.S. as well as projects in the U.K., Ireland, Canada, France, Japan, the Czech Republic and South Africa. \u00a0He is a member of the National Association of EMS Physicians, a faculty member of the National Medical Directors Course and Practicum, and is a founder ambulance member of the Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Executive Director of LifeFlight of Maine Tom Judge was recently in the TideSmart Talk with Stevoe studios to talk with host Steve Woods all about emergency care. Judge told Stevoe about the services that LifeFlight of Maine provides all along the “chain of survival”. Judge also explained the uniqueness of LifeFlight, as it touches every community, and helps people on the worst day of their life. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}