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Family/Personal
Records and Vital Info
EMT workers want you to know what they need if called
to your home in an emergency, and your family needs to know their medical
history and where important financial papers and wills are.
You can keep all of this stored near the phone in a 3
ring binder, along with addresses and phone numbers for your family for an
emergency. Teaching your
children where to find the notebook and who to share that information with
can save your life.
Create a sheet for each of the 4 categories below:
Ambulance/Hospital/Doctors
You should have a sheet for every member of the
family, headed with the person’s name and social security number.
This SS number is crucial to Emergency workers who will be looking
for your name in the medical records database in your town, and there may
be 2 or 3 people with your name.
If they can’t positively identify you, they may
confuse you with someone else, or never realize that you’re allergic to
something they might be giving you.
- Name,
social security number
- Address
and telephone number
- Date
of birth
- Doctor’s
names and numbers, and last time you saw that doctor
- Medications
you are on
- Past
medical problems you have had, and any that you are aware of now
- Childhood
diseases each person has had, (measles, mumps, chickenpox, etc.)
- Blood
type if known
- Allergies,
especially to medications
- Name
your preference of hospitals or doctors
- State
your religious preference
- Signed
release for emergency medical treatment for your children in case you
are absent
Important
Papers/ Legal Documents Sheet
- Location
of wills, trusts, stocks and bonds, cemetery plot deeds, house deeds,
car titles, life insurance policies, house and car insurance policies,
safe deposit box keys, funeral instructions, living will instructions,
passport, certificates of immunization, birth, death and marriage
certificates, diplomas or graduation certificates
- Name
and contact info for Executor of will or estate
- Name
and contact info of Legal Guardian or person holding Power of Attorney
- Names
and contact info of relatives
- Your
lawyer, your funeral home, your pharmacy
- Banks,
account numbers, life insurance on account?, safe deposit boxes?
- School
records, Shot records, Pet records, rabies shot info,
- Adoption
papers, genealogical reports
- Electric,
Water, Gas and Garbage companies, account numbers and info for
emergencies
- Location
of power or fuse boxes in your home, emergency shut offs for water and
gas etc.
- List
of current bills, amounts, balances and contact info for them, along
with due dates
Emergency
contact sheet
- Baby
sitters
- Family
member’s cell phone numbers
- Extended
family who don’t live with you, contact info and how they are
related to you
- Neighbors’
names and numbers
- Christmas
card list
- Electric,
Water, Gas and Garbage companies, account numbers and info for
emergencies
- Location
of power or fuse boxes in your home, emergency shut offs for water and
gas etc.
- Numbers
for Fire and Police, Ambulance and other emergency numbers
- Food
delivery services that you usually use
- Mechanic/garage/gas
station/towing service that you usually use
- Insurance
company, policy and coverage limits
What
to do in an emergency instructions
- For
babysitters, children and others, make a list of instructions for
various catastrophes
- List
location of each item to gather or use, such as candles and matches.
- Bad
Weather Kits for cars and home (include blankets, flares, water, food,
matches, candles, hurricane lamps for home use only)
- Tornado,
hurricane or other weather disaster (blankets, clothes, water, food,
matches, candles, medicines) List where to go if these events are
announced, and how to contact each other if separated in a disaster.
Have a location decided upon and an out of town relative as a
contact go between.
- Violent
attack, break in, robbery, kidnapping (location of weapons, baseball
bats, hiding places etc.)
There may be other categories or items your family
will need, adapt to your own use. User/reader
assumes all responsibility for items included or omitted, and agrees to
hold author of website blameless for any consequences arising from use or
non use of this information.
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