Marshfield Medical Center-Neillsville Emergency Department Supervisor Chris Keller was awarded the Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative (RWHC) Rural Ambassador award for his work with Stop the Bleed and other various injury prevention initiatives. Marshfield provided Stop the Bleed and injury prevention booths at career fairs, company appreciation days and business-to-business events.
 
In addition, through Keller’s leadership we partnered with the Clark County Health Department to provide free Stop the Bleed tourniquet training to local businesses. Noticing a fair number of injuries coming from an area sawmill in Plain, he reached out to offer Stop the Bleed training. Sawmill employees came to Neillsville to receive Stop the Bleed training and were given a free Stop the Bleed kit to keep onsite.
 
Stop the Bleed training helps to save lives by training people how to stop traumatic bleeding until experienced emergency personnel arrive on the scene to assist.