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.
Hear from live liver donor Will Lindbergh, whose selfless act inspired a charity to encourage first responders to participate in organ donation
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Calls involving celebrities, chemical restraint, protests and mass shootings are just some of the scenarios that will put you in the public eye
Fire officials: Ambulances need to idle to power medical equipment without draining batteries
Suffers from rare genetic disorder, ambulance took her to zoo for egg hunt
Initially report two patients, then second ambulance cancelled
$100 charge would begin with 6th call for service in a year
Some patients choosing to have DNR, other messages permanently imprinted
Roommates performed CPR, EMS not called for 2 hours
Waited 12 hours to call 9-1-1 because MI symptoms didn’t match her training
Car struck 4-year-old and 11-year-old when cart crossed street near home
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The group, established by physical education teacher David Deremian in the fall, gathered in the library to celebrate raising nearly $2,500 to purchase an AED for their school
Jason Weeks was fired as a battalion chief in October after his involvement developing and maintaining a private, union-backed website while on town time, using town equipment
You’d better get out your handkerchief: an old EMS tradition is fading fast
New Year’s Eve is typically loaded with alcohol-fueled deaths and injuries, and the coming celebration will probably be worse than most years because it falls on a Saturday
The American Red Cross in Wyoming collected about 5,000 thank-you letters to first-responders from elementary school students across the state
Medics have been trained to look for medical ID bracelets, but many may not know that calling the number on the back of the bracelet provides access to an on-call medical expert
Profits from Thanksgiving Day fundraiser to go to Children’s Hospital, Ronald McDonald House, which aided boy with Guillian-Barré syndrome
With current system, some patients do not forward the EMS reimbursement checks their insurance companies send them
The first-ever national alert will last about 30 seconds and start Wednesday at 2 p.m.
Mark Hughes started his CPR-instruction business to “create additional revenue streams” so he could provide First Relief International with donations
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Bill would provide grants for programs to teach schoolchildren and teens CPR and how to use an AED
A sticker placed on the back windshield of a vehicle would direct firefighters and EMTs to a folder in the glove box with facts about the driver’s health
Bruce Mandel, 47, had taken a patient to St. Barnabas Hospital and was returning to Maplewood when he began feeling ill
A 40-year-old man was about one-tenth of a mile short of finishing the race in downtown San Jose when he fell to the ground
Richard “Boo” Bourgeois, 44, suffered a brain bleed and severe head injury due to a July 9 accident
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