EMS Management
The EMS management topic focuses on leadership within EMS agencies, bringing together a range of relevant columns and resources as well as the latest news on EMS department operations, budget issues and new appointments.
A recent poll found that nearly 70% of those who responded hold either a bachelor’s or master’s degree in an EMS-related field
There is a lot to learn from the Page, Wolfberg and Wirth examination of hospital bed delays and the rights of EMS to return to service
How Austin Travis County EMS is publicly selecting its next EMS chief – How would you fare?
The Department of Health is working with Emergency Medical Services to identify when each county is ready to use the new system.
Along with the four employees recognized for their excellence in EMS, Sunstar Paramedics won the EMS Photo of the Year and the EMS Video of the Year awards
Official said state cuts to Medicaid reimbursement to hospitals across the state prompted the move
Jeff Page joined Collier County EMS as an EMT when the county started an EMS service in 1981
Terry Read says his father, Samuel, might have made it if paramedics had just kept working on him
Officials from the county’s two current ambulance providers, Enloe and First Responder, were told that requests for proposals would soon be coming their way
Employees of American Medical Response in Redlands and Rancho Cucamonga voted to unionize by a margin of better than 3-to-1
Ambulance bosses offered crews pounds 250 each year along with 45 minutes of overtime each time their breaks were disturbed
Dissolution of service by the two largest cities in Oklahoma could raise costs for other cities
what the Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis emergency department doesn’t have — and most others do — is a crush of patients waiting to see doctors
Man is accused of throwing fireworks in the direction of a housing complex while shouting racial slurs
Residents say an EMT and two other men threw ignited fireworks at their homes while belting racial slurs
Paramedic Kenneth Sell “behaved in an inappropriate manner” while attending to ‘Patient A’ at her home in Burwell, the Health Professions Council (HPC) found
Bruce Edwards, the new chairman of the Board of Health, is the most tenured paramedic in Virginia
Testifying in court can be, and is, daunting — even if you are not the defendant. Keeping calm and being prepared will make it go a bit easier.
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
Alameda Mayor Marie Gilmore said the city has asked Ruben Grijalva “to go wherever the trail takes him in his review of what happened on Memorial Day.”
Change would offer 90 days rather than 30 days of limited-duty assignments to pregnant medics
A public outcry emerged last month after budget negotiations revealed most Newport Beach lifeguards earned more than $100,000 a year in total compensation
AMR has run the 911 ambulance service for the Boulder and Boulder County in the past and the company currently provides emergency services in Longmont
There are shining stars in our profession who work hard to promote quality, and strive for performance improvement while minimizing the blame game
Santa Clara County will be the second location in the state for Rural/Metro, but the company is known as the second largest emergency medical services provider in the nation
New York State orders Utica to stop operating its ambulance service effective July 1, 2011
Under new plan, patient calls and concerns will be answered by a 42-person call center in Lexington, Ky.
Police were called to Friday’s emergency meeting of the Community EMS board, which voted to terminate its 2009 partnership with Medina Valley EMS
Suit claims medics provided inadequate treatment to patient after he was fatally shot by a police officer
Union says the solution is providing more staff and ambulances rather than denying workers their meal breaks
Fire union and five pregnant employees say the sick leave policy is applied unfairly to pregnant women
Company will continue as the City of San Diego’s exclusive provider of emergency ambulance services through June 2013
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