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.
In this episode of Inside EMS, our co-hosts welcome listener Ronnie Hall, who flips the script on the traditional guest dynamic by asking the co-hosts his own questions
When EMS leaders can inform, interact, collaborate and inspire “a solution shared is a problem halved”
I can’t presume to know what’s in the heart of this vaccine resister, but each preventable firefighter, paramedic and cop COVID-19 death is heartbreaking to me
Officials now conducting separate investigation involving false certification of 211 responders
Problems came in ’08 when a Fulton dispatcher sent an ambulance crew to the wrong address of a patient who died
The county’s new ambulance provider, Rural/Metro, hired a total of 135 workers including about 60 former Care Ambulance employees
EMS workers concerned their built in overtime would be taken away, amounting to a 6 percent cut in salary
Claims incorrect about response time, causing a bombardment of emails and calls to county commissioners
EMS crews want the cut they say they were promised to buy high-tech medicines and medical equipment
There are 32 personnel who make up emergency services and work around the clock to make sure those working and living aboard the base are safe at all times
Factors forcing the changes include declining government reimbursements on services provided to poor, elderly and uninsured patients
Two say license suspensions endanger public safety
Executive manager and treasurer stole $500,000 from ambulance organization, will be sentenced later
Man took a picture of the computer screen in his ambulance that displays patient names and medical complaints and uploaded it to the social networking site
The false-certification probe began with an anonymous call to the Department of Public Health
Company announced last week the creation of MedCare Ambulance, a private ambulance company
While officials might not have asked many questions going into this budget year, that’s likely to change coming out of it
Call-taker should return to work tonight after serving a five-day suspension without pay and undergoing 32 hours of remedial training
MedStar told her they were unable to send an ambulance for just for a fever
George Smitherman said if elected, he’d strike a task force looking at ways to fuse the two emergency services to allow firefighters to perform more basic life-saving procedures
The ALS agreement began falling apart in ’09 when the county’s medical director, accused firefighter-paramedics of cheating on a certification exam
Controller Michael Lamb said many local emergency medical services are running deficits because primary revenues are Medicare and private insurance payments that cover only about half of the cost of ambulance trips
Officials renegotiated the existing 10-year contract with Stat Ambulance Service of Dartmouth to save taxpayers money
Senior paramedic receives only a warning for on duty sexual behaviors
‘Clearly, the honor system is not enough’
Officials said there have been no reports that any patients received inappropriate care from the EMTs who failed to get proper certifications
AMR fired EMTs part of 200 said to be working with false records
Union says the city’s EMS is already understaffed
Responders face license revocations ranging from 45 days to nine months
About two dozen responders gathered to object to Manchester’s possible switch to AMR
Dispatchers disciplined for tardiness, failure to show up, and rudeness
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