Community Awareness
Explore our directory of articles on Community Awareness in EMS, designed to help professionals engage and educate the public about emergency services and safety practices. This collection covers public outreach, safety campaigns, and partnerships with community organizations. Building community awareness is essential for fostering trust and cooperation between EMS providers and their communities. For related insights, check out our resources on Community. Enhance your community engagement strategies with expert-driven content.
The dos and don’ts of operating in an era where everyone has a camera on you
Helping a fall patient back into bed, a chair or onto the ambulance cot should launch risk mitigation in the patient’s home to prevent future falls
EMS clinicians are in a unique position to provide proactive education to patients as the only subset of clinicians that enter their homes
Here’s a roundup of what EMS providers wish the public knew in order to separate fact from fiction
Being a reliable and engaged community partner takes your EMS organization to lead agency status and makes you the authority when it comes to community health care
Ben Schultz was injured during a training exercise in June; the money will help pay for medical and travel expenses
Priority topics include use of opioid antagonists and therapeutic hypothermia following cardiac arrest
Chief Travis Myklebust offered strategies to create community partnerships and collaboration to achieve a reduction in 911 calls the fire service responds to
Fire Up A Cure featured teams of firefighters and paramedics competing in events such as tug of war and a relay obstacle course for the Cure It Foundation
Several community events have been held this year to put the focus on the opioid addiction issue in the region and to discuss recovery solutions
The goal of the event is to give kids a chance to interact with responders, their vehicles and their equipment in a fun, relaxed way
The autism ambulance is the second ambulance specially wrapped as a joint project between the Whitley County Fiscal Court and Whitley EMS
Tim Cernohous was saved by Paul Gucinski when he collapsed during a half marathon
The crew helped Margaret Durham after she appeared to be overheated
The report ranked each state based on how they were preventing things like distracted driving, prescription painkillers and falls
This vicious cycle experienced by many addicts has added a new facet to Ohio’s grim war against opioid abuse: compassion fatigue
Ronald Ellis was diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer, in April
The text-to-911 service will aid people who are speech or hearing impaired or crime victims
Tracy Parker, 36, lost her fiance when her car flipped over, landing on its roof
The EMS chief said commissioners are no longer allowed on their property unless it’s an emergency
County commissioners proposed a budget that would force a permanent closure of the station
The idea stemmed from a community survey that showed residents wanted to promote health, wellness and physical activity
The paramedics wanted to interact with the public in a casual setting instead a traumatic one
Sophina keeps a list of her first responder friends and, with her mother’s help, prays for them at bedtime
The gym provides CPR and AED training and has a heightened concern about stroke because it has a number of older people who exercise at its branches
There was an almost 62 percent drop in emergency room visits and a 63 percent decrease in ambulance use by frequent flyers
Do the right thing because it is right, but also do the right thing because your job, supported by the currency of public trust, depends on it
The rate of prescription opioids dispensed in Utah grew 30 percent from 2002 to 2015
The organizations will come together for the World CPR Challenge, which trains bystanders to recognize the signs of sudden cardiac arrest
The organization has become a prominent advocate for legislation such as the Protecting Patient Access to Emergency Medications Act
Here are five research pearls from Cathy Hostettler, DNP after she studied MedStar’s Heart Failure Readmission Avoidance Program
