GLENDALE, ARIZONA — UC Health providers joined Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin and members of the Bills medical staff on the field of State Farm Stadium for a moment of recognition prior to kickoff of Super Bowl LVII from Glendale, Arizona, according to a spokesperson for UC Health.
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About 20 members of UC Health’s on-field and hospital-based medical teams were invited for recognition events and attended the game as guests of the NFL.
“These outstanding teams take pride in providing advanced medical care to every member of our community who needs us, every day,” said Rob Wiehe, EVP/COO, UC Health & Chief Administrative Officer, University of Cincinnati Medical Center. “We thank the NFL for recognizing them.”
They were honored for the collective team’s role in providing lifesaving medical care to Hamlin after he suffered cardiac arrest and collapsed on the field of Paycor Stadium on January 2 during a Monday Football Night game between the Cincinnati Bengals and Buffalo Bills.
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Hamlin received immediate medical treatment on the field and was transported by medics to UC Health’s University of Cincinnati Medical Center and spent a week at UC Medical Center before being transferred to a Buffalo-area hospital.
UC Health providers and the Bills medical staff were also recognized Thursday night during the 12th annual NFL Honors event, the spokesperson said.
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The UC Health team recognized at the Super Bowl and at the NFL Honors included emergency medical technicians, respiratory therapists, emergency medicine physicians and nurses, trauma and critical care physicians and nurses, and cardiologists.