On left: Joe Medrano and Maizy. On right: Chan Duckworth and LokenMichigan Medicine Security is adding 2 caller K-9 teams to its roster. Officers Joe Medrano and Charles “Chan” Duckworth and their K-9 partners, Maizy and Loken, are presently successful grooming and expected to beryllium afloat certified successful mid-December.
Once official, Medrano and Maizy volition chiefly service the main aesculapian campus, with a absorption connected Adult Emergency Services. Duckworth and Loken volition marque the rounds astatine ambulatory attraction sites crossed U-M Health.
Both teams volition heighten information and information for the Michigan Medicine assemblage by reducing accent and anxiousness among patients, visitors, module and staff, and by detecting unsafe materials.
“We look guardant to providing this further level of extortion and comfort,” said Brian Uridge, DPSS lawman manager and Michigan Medicine Security director. “We saw specified a affirmative interaction with our archetypal K-9, Leo. We are excited to resume and grow the programme with not 1 but two K-9 teams that volition service the full wellness system.”
In the coming weeks, Maizy and Loken volition proceed getting utilized to the sights, sounds, and fast-paced enactment successful the infirmary and astatine ambulatory attraction locations. Faculty and unit who spot them tin assistance the dogs get acclimated to their caller situation by pursuing the tips below.
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