EMS Advocacy
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The museum is honoring the anniversary of Sept. 11 with a new exhibit, “Recovery and Reflection, Celebrating the 9/11 Tribute”
Regardless of whether you support it, at this moment it is expensive to conduct EMS advocacy
Engaging your workforce requires not figuring out how to motivate people, but identifying what their internal motivations are
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Army combat medics are trained to provide medical assistance in combat situations and can provide trauma care that’s beyond the scope of civilian medics with EMS or EMT training
The Wills for Heroes program uses volunteer attorneys who prepare wills, advanced care directives and power of attorney documents at no charge to first responders and their families
For a New York City paramedic who had seen it all, the attacks on 9/11 changed everything
What one medic found among the rubble was the caring and courage of those who died on 9/11
The changes that began on 9/12 have stretched into weeks, months and years
In your life in EMS, or in the fire service, what is the worst event you can imagine?
Victims’ families have gathered a coalition of charities and businesses to organize volunteer events in hundreds of U.S. cities this 9/11
The curse of a busy EMS career is that compassion is the skill that erodes while all the rest of our skills become stronger with constant practice
For many of the families who attended, this Memorial Weekend was the final step in their journey toward closure
This ceremony is our way of recognizing the hazards of our profession and the risks we take on a daily basis
We can recognize our responders and celebrate their victories every day using the tools of social media
If only briefly, those who had lost so much saw their loved ones recognized for the everyday heroes they were
Representative to the Pennsylvania Emergency Health Federation offers praise for local responders
Investigators are looking at about 500 leads in the March 31 beating
Rather than confining our advocacy to the third week of May, we need to be stewards of our profession for the other 51 weeks a year
An event billed as a ‘drive- through fundraiser’ brought in $61,400 in seven hours
The reduction represents almost a fifth of the service’s 5,000 staff and will fuel the controversy over the Government’s controversial health reforms
That location was the starting point of a campaign for the U.S. Congress to proclaim a day honoring police, firefighters and EMS workers
The judge ruled that there was not enough evidence to warrant a criminal prosecution against Jodi L. Kerr-Rummel
Physicians said he had ten or fifteen more minutes before he might not have survived the heart attack
43 individuals from 18 states will be honored
Employers can promote bullying-free organizational cultures by following a few simple steps
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