EHDG delivers Zumro Shelter to Gonzales Healthcare

 Gonzales Healthcare’s EHDG Representative, Carol Villareal, an active member of STRAC and EHDG, is pleased to announce the arrival of a Zumro Rapid Inflatable Shelter, acquired through EHDG. Numerous other regional hospitals have all taken delivery of the New Zumro shelter, adding to the over 200 shelters currently in use within the State of Texas alone.

The new Model 216 is designed for the growing need of Medical Surge Capacity of large scale emergencies. The shelter which can be deployed in as little as 5-minutes has a large diameter tapered airframe structure capable of holding tremendous loads (wind, snow, ice, rain) even at very low air pressure. The closed system airframe does not require continuous inflation, which means a truly portable shelter capable of extended operations. The shelters are designed for the harshest environments and are made 100 % in the U.S.A. with a 5 year warranty.

With the growing demands placed on emergency responders the flexibility of the Zumro Shelter can meet the various needs. The shelter can be utilized as a mobile field hospital, communications center, command post, decontamination showers, crew quarters, etc. The flexibility of the design is only limited by the user’s imagination. Gonzales Healthcare works in close collaboration with local, state, and federal health, safety, and emergency personnel to develop and maintain plans for coping with a variety of emergency response situations. The main overarching objective is the protection of patients, staff members and all other individuals at the hospital. This shelter will assist GH in achieving this objective.

EMS, Hospital, Disaster Group (EHDG) is a division of the South Texas Advisory Council (STRAC). STRAC has an Emergency Preparedness and Response Division that is a combination of three separate, yet intimately related functions; the Hospital Preparedness Program, managed through EHDG and its subsidiary workgroups derived from subject matter experts and critical hospital personnel; the Public Health Emergency Preparedness program, managed through the DSHS Public Health Region 8; and the Emergency Operations section—the operational arm of STRAC which can deploy assets or personnel to such diverse incidents as swift water rescue, hospital evacuation, communications outages or needs, or public health crisis.

STRAC is one of twenty-two regional councils in Texas that comprise the Texas Trauma/Emergency Healthcare system.   STRAC's membership currently includes 53 hospitals, including 2 Level I Trauma Centers, 14 PCI centers, and 11 Stroke centers, and has 71 EMS agencies.  

STRAC is in charge of developing and implementing the regional trauma and emergency healthcare system for the 22 county region in and around San Antonio, TX called Trauma Service Area - P (TSA-P).  TSA-P has a mixture of urban, suburban rural and frontier areas, from the 7th largest city in the US to the Mexican border, encompassing over 26,000 square miles in southwest Texas.