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.
Leaders share staff support and retention ideas they implemented to support providers during call surges
Rob Lawrence and Scott Moore on how to retain EMS staff through the first year
Open doors and take the next career step by seeking connections
EMS called almost five hours after police found beaten women in bushes
Ownership and responsibility moving from the Town Board to the Fire District
Director used EMS money to make house and car payments and to pay credit card bills
Health chiefs launch an investigation after complaints that paramedics used an ambulance to carry garden waste
Orlando to enter into an exclusive agreement with AMR to provide 9-1-1 emergency ambulance services
Chief of EMS: Increase ‘allows us to bring in revenue without placing the burden upon the taxpayer’
Of the complaints, just over a third were about ambulances not arriving quickly enough, while another third were about quality of care
Leaders caught off-guard by board’s earlier decision to remove a two-person medic-van crew as part of an effort to slice $3.3M out of the agency’s overall budget
Taking ambulance out of service would be ‘last resort’
21 EMS workers could face discipline or prosecution for submitting false training records
Hospitals will be hit with a fine if ambulances are kept hanging on for a second over 20 minutes
Unit added because of pressure from residents, responders
A medic has to make a tough life-or-death decision
Council members said they were concerned about the financial impact and the safety of patients at a free-standing ER
Trinity’s professionalism, community involvement, and use of cutting-edge technology weighed heavily in decision
Man accused of showing a pre-teen girl pornographic images
Lawmakers say increase will raise $6M for department
EMS providers spent thousands of dollars, some of which was public money, on photo shoot at Pittsburgh International Airport
Medic admitted to siphoning the prescription painkiller Fentanyl out of pre-loaded syringes, then refilling them with tap water
The jury’s whopper award in ambulance birth could cost taxpayers, affect transport decisions
EMS workers suspended from duty last week for not having proper emergency medical-training certification back on the job yesterday; state continues investigation
Council votes 5-4 to charge $400 fee for out-of-county residents
Man was airlifted off a cliff after breaking his ankle had to be taken to hospital in a paramedic’s car because of ambulance shortage
Emergency service center will house the county EMS, 911 dispatch center and the board that handles administration of the county’s fire department
2 Beaumont residents claim they incurred medical costs and property damages after an ambulance struck their vehicle at an intersection
In our industry, we put safeguards in place to prevent narcotic diversion and narcotic tampering, yet it still happens at departments and agencies across the country
Budget constraints mean as many as 2 fewer ambulances in service
25 employees have been temporarily suspended from their duties since Monday
The volunteer crew had failed to maintain the required 20-person membership and bank account inactive
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