EMS Liaison

A top priority for Memorial Hospital is to work with our regional healthcare partners to ensure together, we provide quality, compassionate care in the communities we serve.

The EMS Liaison position fulfills a crucial role in meeting this goal. Our EMS Liaison is responsible for managing and fostering collaborative relationships with our EMS partners to facilitate optimal transitions of care, build and drive new clinical initiatives, and identify educational opportunities for our EMS colleagues within the local communities. In addition, this Liaison will review EMS and Emergency Department records to identify opportunities to improve quality outcomes of services rendered in prehospital care.

John Cook, EMT-P, serves as the EMS Liaison at Memorial Hospital. He works collaboratively with local EMS coordinators; our EMS medical director, Brooke M. Moungey, MD, FACEP; and the Clinical Education Department at Memorial. He can be reached at ems@memorialohio.com.

John brings 33 years of Fire and EMS experience to the role, 30 of which have been served in Union County. ‍Most recently, he served as District Chief at Northwestern Fire District, and he retired as Lieutenant at Allen Township and Fire Chief at Leesburg Township. He is an EMS Continuing Education instructor, as well as an instructor for ACLS, BLS, and PALS, all of which will be utilized for outreach efforts. John is excited to take the baton and continue to develop fruitful collaboration.

Dr. Moungey is an Assistant Professor within the Department of Emergency Medicine at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. She currently serves as the Course Director of the EMS Rotation and the EMS Longitudinal Track Leader for EM & EM/IM Residency Programs. She is also the EMS Medical Director for all Union County Agencies: