The new location for the videos is:  http://www.bmet.org/meeting-videos

I hope you enjoy this new addition.

Modern Medical Systems is seeking a full time Sr. BMET/Site Manager for our Seattle area Team.

SR. BMET with Management Skills
Experience
1. Must have 10 years and above and AA Degree
2. Repair of medical equipment
3. AAMI certification desired
4. Provide Clinical in-service training on new and old-equipment
5. Cross train technical staff
6. Evaluate new equipment purchases
7. Supervise and Manage the Biomedical department
8. Incident Investigation/ Risk Management
9. Attend Safety Committee meetings
10. Department development
11. Coordinate outside vendor services.
We offer excellent pay and benefits, retirement plans, opportunities for career advancement, paid training days, generous TTO accruals, and more. For immediate consideration please contact:

Kile Jackson
Regional Service Manager – NW

Modern Medical Systems Co.
170 Finn Court, Suite One, Farmingdale, NY 11735
main (425) 899-3857: fax (425) 899-2071: cell (425) 941-3086
For more info, visit www.ModernMedicalSystems.com,

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We invite you to bring your career to an environment where talent is rewarded and new ideas are encouraged. At Seattle Children’s, the Pacific Northwest’s premier pediatric care center, we offer more than just state-of-the-art facilities and open career growth potential. You will also find a true commitment to our patients and families that reaches far beyond the bounds of clinical expertise. 

Biomedical Equipment Technician II

Currently we are seeking a full time Biomedical Equipment Technician II for our Clinical Engineering department. You will be responsible for repairing, calibrating, and maintaining all types of medical equipment technologies, devices, instruments, life support equipment and support systems of moderate complexity.

Requirements include an AA degree in Biomedical Equipment Technology and 2 years’ experience working in the repair and calibration of medical equipment. Certification by ICC/AAMI is preferred. 

We offer excellent pay and benefits, retirement plans, opportunities for career advancement, paid training days, transportation discounts, generous PTO accruals, and so much more. For immediate consideration, please apply online to www.seattlechildrens.org/jobs.  Seattle Children’s is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

In planning the event last spring, the WSBA officers entertained some very ambitious ideas.  However, the initial commitment for attendance that we received from members was not enough to support some of these goals.  For example, we weren’t able to offer a class on x-ray basics taught by the good folks at Ditech. Although they were willing to support us, we didn’t feel we could ask them to come all this way if we couldn’t guarantee a minimum turnout.  We’re open to ideas that will encourage more participation.

In my opinion, the WSBA has two very solid strengths: a core group of members who show up, participate and pitch in willingly, and vendors who willingly and happily donate time, energy, and money to support us.

Finally, I’d like to recognize, on behalf the members and officers of the WSBA, Lynda Wilkinson for her tireless efforts to make sure we had a successful day of training and North Seattle Community College for continuing to support our organization.  And a big THANKS for all the manufacturer’s representatives who helped to make our 2009 Symposium a success:

David Sieminski
Philips / Respironics

Crystal Miller
Masimo

Corrie Schumacher and Jerry Norimatsu
Echoserve

Jerry Zion, Mick Daly, and Gary Hoffman
Fluke

Ashley Vogelsang
AVI

Greg Alkire
Pronk Technologies

Eric Willingham and Jeremy Skillicorn
Welch Allyn

Matt Tomory and Barry Horning
Conquest Imaging

Tim Dugaw
Baxter

Tom Winstel, Kristina Sutton Ermers
Medtronic

Jim Scott
Seattle Surgical

Seth Schnurman
BPI

Friday Night Meet and Greet Opening

Meet and Greet

Saturday Morning Opening

Ultrasound Basics

Table Top Autoclaves

Surgical Tables

Defibrillator Test Protocols

LP 20

Saturday Night Dinner

Lucky Winner!

Location: North Seattle Community College

Start Date: 09-18-2009

End Date: 09-19-2009

Please RSVP by emailing: secretary@bmet.org

Also, I have received some feedback regarding the time/date format for the meetings. I know they are a little wonky, but I am trying to fix that. Hopefully I will have a solution very soon (I think I have to get down and dirty with the back-end code for the plug-in I’m using).

Oh, one more thing… If any of you would like to write an article to be posted on http://www.bmet.org, sign up to become a member, then email me your username and I will change your status to ‘Contributor’ which will give you access to the posting area.

As always, if you see anything broken (or have an idea for the website), don’t hesitate to contact me.

I am still looking for a better image gallery solution than was used for the old layout. Hopefully that will be back online soon.

Also, before I forget, if any of you post a comment to the website your first comment will not automatically appear. All comments for first-time commenters are moderated, but each comment after that will should go through without any intervention. The reason for that is to prevent comment spam, which there could be lots without that type of system in place.