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.
From house calls to heartfelt care: Inside the evolution of a Texas county’s community paramedicine program
Knowing how xylazine presents clinically, as well as how it impacts overdose management is important for any provider responding to illicit drug overdoses
EMTs, paramedics and firefighters have a responsibility to identify fall hazards and share prevention tips with patients and at the public events we host
Frederick the friendly paramedic treats an injured skateboarder to help kids understand what to expect during a medical emergency
The dispatchers accepted his handwritten note, and during a tour of the dispatch center they showed him how prank calls put the public at risk
Katherine Scott Brantley suffered three strokes at the age of 24; this is how it felt, and how it’s impacted her life
He recognized the signs, but they subsided by the time he drove himself to the ER, and he said he never should have left without seeing a doctor
The Queensland Ambulance Service paramedic was carrying the contagious virus while transporting patients to four hospitals
Nearly $200,000 per unit received from the community to replace two units totaled in a parking garage fire
Reports say the driver was weaving in and out of traffic, and failed to yield to the ambulance, which had lights and sirens on
EMT Siren and the FDNY150 Ambulance will represent FDNY in parades and community events throughout the year
A REMSA employee cited HIPAA and asked a reporter to stop filming a man resisting police in a public space
Opportunity for all EMS providers to learn about national initiative and contribute to shaping the future of EMS
Saturday marked 42 days since Liberia’s last Ebola case, and officials declared the end of the epidemic seven months after the international outbreak
The unit now features an image of Yellowstone Cutthroat trouts as part of a Wyoming Medical Center ambulance drawing contest
It was approved after several elderly residents refused an ambulance because they couldn’t afford the bill
Stroke assessment and interventions are time-critical and lifesaving
Volunteer providers are the foundation of EMS in the U.S. and the realities of volunteers don’t match the mythology #StopVollieBashing
Her husband who held her at knifepoint allowed her to place an order at Pizza Hut, and under the comments section she asked for 911
Analysis at the county level shows dramatic changes in drinking patterns, especially by women, over a 10-year period
The hoax 911 calls made by online gamers put expensive and dangerous demands on law enforcement and EMS
Counter cultural festival has chosen a new medical provider for the event that becomes the state’s 4th largest city for a week every August
The European Union will require all new vehicles be retrofitted by 2018 with crash sensors that transmit the location, time, direction and number of people in the vehicle
The spread of the virus is intravenous drug uses; it sparked a CDC alert and the state has spent more than $2 million on efforts to fight the outbreak
The powered alcohol was approved the FDA last month but six states have already outlawed it, and about 30 more states are working on legislation that would prohibit sales
With faster response times and a growing list of drivers that have delivered babies, Uber is ready to take on additional health care challenges
The worker fell asleep and passengers heard him banging on the aircraft for help as the plane took off
Volunteers from local businesses teamed up to remodel the station lounge to thank responders for their work during Boston Marathon bombing, and every day
The banners honored victims and survivors on the two year anniversary of the 2013 bombing at the finish line of the Boston Marathon
People openly wept and hugged as church bells tolled at 2:49 p.m., the time the first bomb went off at the race’s finish line April 15, 2013
Flakka is cheap, potent and has been described as the next generation of synthetic drug that has been linked to a string of bizarre, sometimes violent incidents
RapidSOS is an app in development designed to relay critical information to dispatchers with the touch of one button on a smartphone
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