Community
CPR Classes
First Aid Classes
Car Seat Installation
Blood Pressure Checks
Hi-Vis Address Signs
Residential Knox Box Program
Salem-Morrow Fire Department Notice of Privacy Practices
Effective Date: April 14, 2003
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The Salem/Morrow Fire Department offers American Heart Association CPR classes to residents as well as the general public. These classes are taught to the BLS level. We offer public classes four times a year as well as private classes on request. Dates, times, and cost of CPR classes are listed below as well as our registration form. Please call (513) 899-2222 if you would like more information.
Upcoming Classes: June 2, 2025 @ 5:00pm; September 1, 2025 @ 6:00pm; December 1, 2025 @ 6:00pm; March 2, 2026; and June 1, 2026 @ 6:00pm
Registering for our CPR classes is as simple as filling our the form below and showing up on time with comfortable clothes and a pen/pencil!
Cost is $50.00 due on the day of your class. Cash or Checks made payable to Salem/Morrow Fire Department are accepted.
Register for Class
The Salem/Morrow Fire Department offers the American Heart Association Heartsaver First Aid course to residents as well as the general public in groups of 4 or more and can be combined with the American Heart Associations BLS CPR course.
Heartsaver First Aid is a video-based, instructor-led course that teaches students critical skills to respond to and manage an emergency in the first few minutes until emergency medical services arrives. Students learn duties and responsibilities of first aid rescuers; first aid actions for medical emergencies, including severe choking, heart attack, and stroke; and skills for handling injury and environmental emergencies, including external bleeding, broken bones and sprains, and bites and stings.
Heartsaver First Aid total classroom time: 3-4 hours
Heartsaver First Aid cost: $50.00/person
Contact about Class
We all want our children to travel safely in cars. Installing a car seat for younger children and babies can be a challenge. The Salem/Morrow Fire Department offers child passenger safety (CPS) technicians for our community who can check to make sure your car seats are installed correctly and teach you how to use and install a car seat on your own.
This one-on-one education typically takes 20-30 minutes, depending on your car seat and vehicle. The technician will take all the time you need until you feel comfortable that your car seat is used and installed correctly
There are a few things you should know before you meet with a CPS technician. This isn’t like getting an oil change on your car, where you leave the car and go do something else. Working with a CPS technician will be a one-on-one learning experience. When you leave, you should be confident that your child’s seat is installed correctly and feel comfortable reinstalling it on your own. This may be the most important thing you learn.
Before the Car Seat Checkup
- Be prepared to learn, not just watch the CPS technician install the car seat. They’re trained to teach you.
- Try to schedule an appointment one to two months prior to your baby’s due date just in case you deliver early.
- If your child is already born, know your child’s weight and height, and bring your child with you. If possible, also bring another adult to help watch the child while you are learning.
- Install the seat in your vehicle before your car seat checkup appointment. Be sure to use the instructions that came with the child car seat and the instructions in your vehicle owner’s manual regarding car seats.
- Bring the car seat instructions and the vehicle owner’s manual with you to your appointment.
This service is offered free of charge to residents of Salem Township, Morrow, and Washington township
Contact about Car Seat Install
Our Firehouse is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
We welcome any of our residents to stop by at any time if they wish to have their vital signs checked. We are happy to perform EKG readings, Take your pulse, blood pressure, blood sugar and offer suggestions if you are feeling ill.
WE CAN'T HELP YOU IF WE CAN'T FIND YOU!
The quicker our firefighters or E.M.Ts can locate you, the quicker we can begin helping you and your family. In an effort to locate your home or business in an emergency, we are providing at a cost, 6″ x 18″ reflective signs, that will clearly display your street address. These signs are invaluable to firefighters, EMT’s and police officers who may be looking for your home in Your Time of Need. Similar signs have been installed in other communities with startling results!
The Salem/Morrow Fire Department is selling these signs at a cost of $12.00 each. if you wish to have the department mount your sign for you, we will do so for $14.00. Each sign has your street address prominently displayed on both sides of the sign in Highly Reflective 3″ numbers against a green background similar to those on an interstate sign. The signs are installed in such a way that assures their visibility, even in high grass and snowy weather conditions.
Please stop by the firehouse if you would like to purchase one of these signs for your residence! Generally, these signs can be made in about 10 minutes while you wait.
The Difference is Night and Day!
The Salem / Morrow Fire Department has started a Residential Knox Box Program to help us help you.
What is Knox Box? It’s a heavy duty box that we hang on your door that has your home key in it. We have a Master key that we use to open the box in an emergency situation so we can make access to your home and let use help you.
The reason we started the program is to help us make entry to our citizens with out causing damage to their property. We receive calls to residents homes and when we get there we are unable to make access do to the house is locked up tight. We end up breaking into the house to help with their emergency and then they have an extra expense fixing what we had to break. Residents stop by and offer us keys so we do not have to break in. That would be a lot of keys for us to have and maintain. This would cause more of a hindrance than help.
This program is for residents that have chronic medical problems, elderly folks that live alone, persons with disabilities that would make it hard for them to let us in, and that live in our protection area. If you are not sure if you qualify, contact Chief Moenster. This is a free service provided to our residents for as long as they need it.
This program was started by donations to the fire department. We have purchased 6 Knox Boxes and Key Secure Systems. The Key Secure Systems secures the key to the vehicle and tracks who uses it. This gives us an accountability system on the use of the key. Supplies are limited.
The department requests an application form to be filled out. When approved we will come out and install the Knox Box. The forms can be Downloaded on this page or picked up at the Salem / Morrow Fire Department. If you have any questions contact Chief Moenster at (513) 899-2222.
Knox Box Request Form
THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW MEDICAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU MAY BE USED AND DISCLOSED AND HOW YOU CAN GET ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION, PLEASE REVIEW IT CAREFULLY.
This Notice will tell you about the ways in which we may use and disclose medical information about you. It also describes your rights and certain obligations that we have regarding the use and disclosure of your medical information.
Salem-Morrow Fire Department is covered by regulations pursuant to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) and is required by law to maintain the privacy of your health information, give you notice of our privacy practices with respect to your medical information, and follow the terms of this Notice. This Notice applies to all of the records of your care generated and maintained by Salem-Morrow Fire Department. While you are a patient of Salem-Morrow Fire Department, you may also receive health care services from other health care providers who are not employees or agents of Salem-Morrow Fire Department but who will follow the terms of this Notice with respect to the privacy of your health information. Accordingly, this Notice also applies to the records of your care generated by any Life Squads and Fire Departments that my assist in your care. These entities and the Salem-Morrow Fire Department Facilities will share your medical information as necessary with each other in order to carry out your treatment or to obtain payment for the services provided to you.
HOW WE MAY USE AND DISCLOSE MEDICAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU: The following categories describe different ways that we may use and disclose your medical information. These are examples and, therefore, not every permitted use and disclosure is listed.
For Treatment. We may use medical information about you to provide you with medical treatment or services. We may disclose medical information about you to doctors, nurses, technicians, medical students and other trainees, or other personnel who are involved in taking care.
For Payment. We may use and disclose medical information about you so that the treatment and services you receive from us may be billed to and payment may be collected from you, an insurance company, or a third party. For example, we may need to give your health insurance company information about emergency care that you received from us so your health insurance company will pay us or reimburse you for the care. We may also disclose your medical information to other healthcare providers so that they can bill for health care services that they provided to you.
For Life Squad Operations. We may use and disclose medical information about you in order to operate the life squad effectively. These uses and disclosures are necessary to run the life squad and make sure that our patients receive quality health care. For example, we may use medical information to review our treatment and services and to evaluate the performance of our staff in caring for you. We may also disclose medical information to doctors, nurses, technicians, medical and nursing students, and other personnel for review and learning purposes. We may also provide medical information to other healthcare providers who have a relationship with you and need the information for their own healthcare operations.
Business Associates. We may disclose medical information about you to our business associates who need that information in order to provide a service to us or on behalf of us. A business associate is a person who is not part of the Salem-Morrow Fire Department’s workforce, a company or other entity which uses or has access to protected health information in order to perform a function on behalf of the hospital or health care facility. For example, business associates of Salem-Morrow Fire Department may be other Fire Departments and Life Squads as well as billing companies, and attorneys.
Individuals Involved With or Concerned About Your Care. We may release information about your condition or treatment to a friend or family member relevant to his/her involvement in your care or payment for your care. We may also disclose your location and condition to assist or notify a family member or personal representative who is involved in your care. We may also disclose your information in a disaster relief effort so that your family can be notified about your condition and location.
As Required by Law. We will disclose medical information about you when required to do so by federal, state or local law.
To Avert a Serious Threat to Health or Safety. We may use and disclose medical information about you when necessary to prevent a serious threat to your health and safety or the health and safety of the public or another person.
Worker’s Compensation. We may release medical information about you for worker’s compensation or similar programs which provide benefits for work-related injuries or illness.
Public Health Activities. We may disclose medical information about you for public health activities such as the prevention or control of disease, injury or disability; reporting of births and deaths; reporting of child abuse or neglect
Health Oversight Activities. We may disclose medical information to a health oversight agency for activities allowed by law such as audits, investigations, inspections and licensure or disciplinary actions.
Lawsuits and Disputes. We may disclose medical information about you in response to a Court Order, Administrative Order or certain subpoenas.
Law Enforcement. We may release medical information to a law enforcement official about a death we believe may be the result of criminal conduct; and in emergency circumstances, to report a crime, the location of a crime or victims, or the identity, description or location of the person who committed the crime.
Coroners, Medical Examiners and Funeral Directors. We may release medical information to a coroner or medical examiner. This may be necessary, for example, to identify a deceased person or determine the cause of death. We may also release medical information to funeral directors as necessary to carry out their duties.
Military and Veterans. If you are a member of the armed forces, we may release medical information about you as required by military command authorities. We may also release medical information about foreign military personnel to the appropriate foreign military authority.
National Security and Intelligence Activities. We may release medical information about you to authorized federal officials for intelligence and other national security activities authorized by law.
Protective Services for the President and Others. We may disclose medical information about you to authorized federal officials so they may provide protection to the President, other authorized persons or foreign heads of state or conduct special investigations.
Inmates. If you are an inmate of a correctional institution or under the custody of a law enforcement official, we may release medical information about you to the correctional institution or the law enforcement official.
OTHER USES OF YOUR MEDICAL INFORMATION: Other uses and disclosures of your medical information not covered by this Notice or required by the laws that apply to Salem-Morrow Fire Department, will be made only with your written permission (your written permission is referred to as an Authorization). If you provide your permission to use or disclose medical information about you, you may revoke that permission in writing at any time. If you revoke your permission, we will no longer use or disclose medical information about you for the reasons indicated in your written Authorization. You understand that we are unable to take back any disclosures that we made before we received your written notice revoking your Authorization.
YOUR RIGHTS REGARDING MEDICAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU: You have the following rights regarding medical information we maintain about you:
Right to Inspect and Copy. You have the right to inspect and obtain a copy of your medical information. This includes your medical and billing records but does not include psychotherapy notes. If you request a copy of the information, we may charge a fee for the costs of copying, mailing or other supplies associated with your request.
Right to Amend. If you feel that medical information we have about you is incorrect or incomplete, you may ask us to amend the information. You have the right to request an amendment for as long the information is kept by or for the hospital or health care facility.
Right to an Accounting of Disclosures. You have the right to request an “accounting of disclosures”. This is a list of the disclosures we made of your medical information. This list will not include disclosures that we made for purposes of treatment, payment and health care operations. We are also not required to include in this list the disclosures we made by acting upon your written authorizations.
Your request must state a time period which may not be longer than six (6) years and may not include dates before April 14, 2003. The first accounting you request within a twelve (12) month period will be free. For additional accountings, we may charge you for the costs of providing the list.
Right to Request Restrictions. You have the right to request a restriction or limitation on the medical information we use or disclose about you for treatment, payment, or health care operations. You also have the right to request a restriction or limit on the medical information we disclose about you to someone who is involved in your care or the payment for your care, like a family member or friend.
We are not required to agree to your request for a restriction or limitation. If we do agree, we will comply with your request unless the information is needed to provide you emergency treatment.
In your request, you must tell us (1) what information you want to limit; (2) whether you want to limit our use, disclosure or both; and (3) to whom you want the limits to apply, for example, disclosures to your spouse.
Right to a Paper Copy of this Notice. You have a right to a paper copy of this Notice. You may ask us to give you a copy of this Notice at any time.
CHANGES TO THIS NOTICE: We reserve the right to change this notice. We reserve the right to make the revised or changed notice effective for medical information we already have about you as well as any information we receive in the future. We will post a copy of the current Notice in the hospital and health care facilities. The Notice will contain on the first page, in the top right-hand corner, the effective date. In addition, if you are a patient at the hospital, each time you register at or are admitted to the hospital for treatment or health care services as an inpatient or outpatient, we will offer you a copy of the current Notice in effect.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: For further information about the matters covered by this Notice, you may contact the following:
If you were a patient of Salem / Morrow Fire Department, send your written complaint to the attention of the Privacy Officer, Salem / Morrow Fire Department, 5270 East US 22 & 3, Morrow, Ohio .45152
COMPLAINTS: If you believe your privacy rights have been violated, you may file a complaint with Salem-Morrow Fire Department or with the Secretary of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services. To file a complaint with Salem-Morrow Fire Department, you must submit your complaint in writing as follows:
If you were a patient of Salem / Morrow Fire Department, send your written complaint to the attention of the Privacy Officer, Salem / Morrow Fire Department, 5270 East US 22 & 3, Morrow, Ohio .45152
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