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Harmony Event Medicine's Mission
Improving our community well-being through education, free healthcare and providing
fulfilling opportunities for people to share their diverse healing talents.
Harmony Event Medicine manifests our mission in the following ways:
2. Providing a healing environment with respectful, non-judgmental, caring support.
3. Providing care to clients who have no other opportunity to receive medical
assistance due to low income, no insurance, and high cost of medical care.
4. Assisting large events in becoming safer and less burdensome on public Emergency Response systems and health facilities (911, police, EMT's, ER, hospitals, etc.), through treating minor conditions on site, providing counseling, and stabilizing trauma conditions and providing basic life support if needed while waiting for an ambulance transport.
Educating anyone interested in first aid, CPR, and crisis management, regardless of previous training and skills.
5. Merging all types of medical skills into a supportive, cohesively sharing team that provides healthcare and education to attendees of events. Volunteer staff enjoying art, music and social connections while contributing to the wellbeing of our community as well as sharing their diverse medical training techniques and experience with each other.
6. A fully mobile medical clinic and training for effectively using the clinics resources.
7. Training in crisis intervention and crowd management in a variety of environments.
Harmony Event Medicine is an experienced organization traveling to events across Oregon to bring fun, excitement, and great service to exciting events. Dedicated members who are experts in their respective fields founded HEM in 2003. The staff members at HEM are certified MD's, ND's, RN's, EMT's, first aid response specialists, midwives, LMT's, road crew and setup, cooks, crisis intervention specialists, and students. If interested, please contact us and we will do what we can to get you involved with HEM!
Summer 2006 HEM events we had on tap:
July
NW World Reggae Fest July 21-23
Concerts at the Cuthbert Amphitheater
The Secret House Vineyard Summer Concert Series
August
NW String Summit Aug. 25-27
KBOO Pickathon August 5-6
September
Eugene Celebration Sept 8-10
McDonald Theatre
Winter Months
McDonald Theater
See the Events page for further details
Why are we needed at these festivals/events?
There are a variety of medical issues that occur at large events. Dehydration, dizziness, heat exhaustion, crowd exhaustion, or excessive substance ingestion are just some of the medical concerns HEM is prepared to handle. In addition, HEM offers professional services for dancing injuries, pre-existing injuries, illness, headaches, asthma, bee stings, allergies, and much more. Our staff is a well rounded group of medical and mental health experts properly trained to handle these situations. We even include naturopathic remedies for those who prefer it over conventional methods of healing.
History of Harmony Event Medicine
Harmony Event Medicine was born in 2003 by Ted Robinson, Jonerick Romans, Alicia Stiegler (N.D.), Hunter Mafera (M.D.) and Jeff Sutton. All of us previously worked together in a rockmed group providing services similar to HEM. After Alicia and “Doc” Hunter decided to focus their energies elsewhere, Ted, Jeff and Jonerick found others interested in rounding out the current board of directors. We welcomed Charlie Thompson and Laural Wiley into the fold as BOD members, Allan Erickson to our Advisory Council, and Michelle Lowentritt and Nichi Masters into our Management staff.
The members on the board of directors have been involved with event medicine for years. As early as the mid 90's Ted, Jonerick, Allan, Jeff, and Laural were volunteers with AVIVA RockMedicine. AVIVA is an event medical group supporting events such as Conde's HempFests, String Cheese Incidents' Horning's Hideout Peak Experiences, and the 2002 NYE at Portland Events Center. The HEM Board also has members that volunteer or work for The Oregon Country Fair/White Bird, Northwest Rock Medicine, The Rainbow Gathering, Black Rock City, High Sierra Music Fest, Eugene Celebration, and many other events making Harmony Event Medicine the best choice to support the festivities of your next large event.