Tomball ISD Recognizes Cypress Creek EMS For Stop The Bleed Grant

TOMBALL, TX — The Tomball Independent School District will recognize Cypress Creek EMS for training district staff and employees in an innovative program known as Stop The Bleed, as well as Tomball Regional. Medical Center for the help the district received with grant funding to place bleeding control kits in all district secondary classrooms, officials announced.

In December, Tactical Medics from Cypress Creek EMS trained hundreds of Tomball employees how to Stop The Bleed.

Norm Uhl, communications director at CCEMS said 160 Tomball ISD teachers and school nurses were trained in the summer of 2018. In January, CCEMS trained 388 employees at Tomball High School and Tomball Memorial High School, and all the districts bus drivers. Tomball is the first district to do that in the CCEMS area.

Stop The Bleed is a national program that grew out of the Sandy Hook mass shooting and is endorsed by the White House and the4 Department of Homeland Security.

Uhl says that even though the training was created out of tragedy, it's ore likely that a school district employee will use a tourniquet for an accidental injury such as from a fall or an auto-pedestrian accident.

CCEMS has been teaching bleeding control to police officers and firefighters for many years so that the first person on the scene can do what’s needed to save lives. So far, the Stop The Bleed training has helped save the lives to two students in other school districts.

The special thank you happens at 10 a.m. in the Tomball ISD Board Room, located at 3001 S. Cherry Street in Tomball.

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