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Caldwell Memorial Hospital, NC (1 unit deployed) Chief Randy Martin 828-757-5459
Bannock Medical Center, ID (1 unit deployed) Lt. Sam Clark 208-239-1780
Health Alliance, OH (6 units deployed) David Palmisano 513-585-7000
Kings Daughters Medical Center Police, KY (19 units deployed) Bob Fritz
Los Angeles County Dept. of Medical Health, CA (1 unit deployed) Deputy Craig
McClelland 213-821-2098
Moses Taylor Hospital Police Dept. PA (2 units deployed) John Hazleton 570-340-2173
St. Joseph's Hospital Police, KS (4 units deployed) Shirley Rinake
Tanner Medical Center, GA (5 units deployed) Reggie Jarrell 770-836-9888
Hennepin County Medical Center, MN (5 unit purchase in process) Marc Johnson 952953-9522 * extensive human testing planned for suspects that local departments have
used the M26 on.
Island Park Child Abuse Unit -SPCC, NY (T&E in process) Chief Jeff Mackston 516779-2883
Loma Linda Univ Medical Ctr., CA (1 unit deployed) Lt. Ron Dortch 909-824-4319
Mercy Hospital, PA (2 units deployed) Claude Welcome 570-348-7895
St. Cloud Hospital Safety & Security, MN (6 units deployed) Bill Becker 320-259-3965
Watauga Medical Center Police Dept., NC (4 units deployed) Robert Erwatson 828-2624100
Winnebago Mental Health Dept., WI (4 units deployed) Capt. Schaller 920-235-4910

Dr. Stratbucker who performed the medical studies can be called by any of your M.D.’s or
Medical Directors who may have additional questions after your demonstration to the Hospital
Staffs. His contact information is below.
Dr. Robert Stratbucker 402-399-9500
Stratbucker & Associates
7125 Country Club Rd.
Omaha, NE 68152

1-402-572-8555 Fax
402-572-7125 Home
402-345-1477

Mark Johnson from Hennepin County Medical Center compiled the list below during phone interviews.
Feel free to contact him if you have questions about this.
Mark A. Johnson
Hennepin County Medical Center
(612)-347-3932 Office
(612)-336-0859 Pager
Name of Facility State located # of Beds #of ER Beds Crisis Center Security Staff M-26 Probes Deployed
M-26 Presented
Univ. of Cincinnati OH 400 40 Yes 25 0 200+
Caldwell Memorial NC 110 20 Yes 10 4 100+
Tanner Medical Center GA 202 14 No 8 0 75+

Villirica Medical Center GA 50 6 No 3 0 20+
Mercy Hospital PA 300 25 No 15 0 0
Mercy Wilksbury PA 100 10 Yes 6 1 75+
Loma Linda University CA 650 30 Yes 40 1 75+
Medical Center
University of Cincinnati
Administrative Contact - Assistant Chief Robert Rohrbach (513)-556-4904
Level 1 Trauma Center. Officers are assigned a M-26 Taser Officers have had the M-26 for 3 years with
zero dart deployments. Minimum staffing in hospital for security is 5 but they can pull from the entire
campus security staff of 20. Security staff also have pepper spray, batons, handcuffs, and firearms.
Caldwell Memorial
Administrative Contact - Vice President Tim Palmer (828)-757-5558
Caldwell Memorial has had the M-26 for 7 months and have deployed the darts 4 times in the ER.
Officers have pepper spray, batons, handcuffs, and backup firearms strapped on the officers ankle.
Tanner Medical Center
Administrative Contact - Administrator Herb Sullivan (770)-836-9609
Tanner Medical Center has had the M-26 Taser for 1 year. Officers have never had to use the M-26, but
have produced it to reduce the subjects violence level. Officers have pepper spray, batons, and handcuffs.
Villirica Hospital
Administrative Contact - Administrator Herb Sullivan (770)-836-9609
Villirica has had the M-26 Taser for 1 Year. Officers have never had to use the M-26, but have produced
it to reduce the subjects violence level. Officers have pepper spray, batons, and handcuffs.
Mercy Hospital
Administrative Contact - President Sue Petula (570)-348-7025
Mercy Hospital has had the M-26 Taser for 1 ½ years. Officers have never had to use the M-26, but have
produced it to reduce the subjects violence level. Officers have pepper spray, batons, handcuffs and
firearms
Mercy Hospital Wilksbury
Administrative Contact - President Sue Petula (570)-348-7025
Mercy Hospital Wilksbury has had the M-26 Taser for 1 ½ years.
Officers have used the M-26 once on an adolescent psychiatric unit, and have produced it to reduce the
subjects violence level. Officers have pepper spray, batons, handcuffs and firearms
Loma Linda University Medical Center
Administrative Contact - Executive Vice President George Johnston (909)-824-0800
Loma Linda University Medical Center has had the M-26 Taser for 2 years. Officers have used the M-26
once on the CIC unit, and have produced it to reduce the subjects violence level. Officers have pepper
spray, batons, handcuffs and firearms
Presentations to Hospital Staff:
We have done many ER and EMT presentations here in Arizona because several police
departments here deploy M26 ADVANCED TASERs in the line of duty and all have went very

well. It has been our experience that the medical community (because of their greater
understanding of the cardio and nervous systems) accept this non lethal use of force option with
open arms. The EMT’s and ER Staff members we’ve met with all concur on the fact that they
would much rather see a patient in ER with a worse case sterile slight puncture wound than for
a bullet wound any day of the week.
Please be sure to note to staff members that hospitalization or treatment is not necessary for
removal of the probes under normal deployment circumstances.
We do recommend EMT’s, ER and other medical staff follow normal hospital procedures for
removing any barb from soft tissue such as eye, breast, or groin areas. (please mention here
that we have thousands of ADVANCED TASERs in use and we have never had one eye
puncture due to the angle design of the cartridge and the accuracy of the laser sight attachment
- probe ends up within 1 inch of laser dot). There is one case of eye injury on file from another
manufacturer’s unit that occurred during a struggle in the back seat of a squad car for an
officer’s firearm. The subject’s cornea was damaged with only partial eyesight loss.
The most commonly asked questions I always get asked by the medical community regarding
the probes are:
How long is the part of the probe that can get through the skin? The dart on the end of the
probe is ¼ inch.
What’s the barb made of? The barb is a sterile straightened #8 McGill and Wright fish hook
with a slight barb.
How safe is it? Reference the cardiac safety graph in your training CD and remind
cardiologists the out put is ½ Joule per pulse.
And of course the other standard question.....How’s it feel to be shocked?
Below are a couple of hospital references for you to contact. They can share hospital
environment use experiences with you.
ADVANCED TASER is used in several hospital environments. The University of California
Irvine Police Dept. and Mercy Hospital are prime examples. The UC Irvine contact is well
grounded in AIR TASERs. Steve Monsanto can be reached at 949-824-8441 (voice mail is 949824-7794). At Mercy Hospital, Scranton, PA, the contact is Claude Welcome at 570-348-7895.
Hennepin County Medical Center, Marc Johnson 612-347-3232.
I hope all this helps you.