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In an effort to prove that expansion of the emergency
medical response training into the private sector was worthwhile,
petitioner worked with the San Francisco Giants organization to
create the first prototype for a private facility emergency
response system. The ushers at Candlestick Park were trained to
recognize emergencies and to communicate the occurrence of an
emergency to the paramedics and emergency response teams located
throughout the stadium. Automatic defibrillators were also
placed in the stadium for use by the trained staff during cardiac
emergencies. Petitioner’s work with the San Francisco Giants’
emergency response program was done in her individual, private
capacity and not as the director of CPRT.
In May 1992, petitioner collaborated with others in
preparing a business plan for a private company called “WorkSafe
America Corp.” The business plan expanded on petitioner’s
concept to bring EMS systems into the private sector by
encouraging private industry to purchase defibrillation equipment
and place it in strategic locations where statistics showed the
public was more apt to need and benefit from access to such
equipment. The strategy was to create a consortium of vendors
(of defibrillators), large employers, and an
implementation/training team headed by petitioner which would
place equipment and trained personnel in locations where heart
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