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.
Understanding the Employee Value Proposition is the key to attracting, engaging and retaining good people for your EMS organization
Protecting yourself from verbal abuse from a patient is one thing, but what if it’s coming from someone who is supposed to be your support network?
How clinical variation, management visibility and unintentional overtime impact provider fatigue, depersonalization
Higher education can help EMS providers tackle the five biggest challenges facing emergency services today
Officials said there are multiple factors, such as an aging population, but emergency personnel are trying to pin the reason down further
Calhoun County EMS reached out to other agencies for advice on how to prevent infestations, which included carrying minimal equipment into homes
Patient hand-offs are an intersection between healthcare providers where critical information is shared regarding the mutual patient
Every EMS agency adopts innovations at a different pace; how has yours deployed community paramedicine?
Chief Porter R. Welch shares factors to consider before and while implementing a MIH-CP program
The surge units will be available to provide backup when regular ambulances operated by volunteer fire and EMS companies are on calls and can’t respond
Our co-hosts give some practical advice in getting to the next level and securing the influence needed to inspire a career field
EMS panelists at AAA say embracing new technology to manage supplies helped them reduce waste, cut costs and improve patient care
Pairing community paramedics with advanced practice providers for home visits to frequent utilizers decreased 911 volumes in a pilot program
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Baltimore Fire Chief Niles Ford testified that the average wait time for the city’s 911 is only six seconds
Capt. Tim Goodman was suspended in May after posting more than 100 allegedly racist posts on Facebook
Rockland Paramedic Services will use the money to train paramedics in order to expand their role to post-hospital visits
Three years ago, a drunk driver hit an Allina Health ambulance head-on, seriously injuring two EMS providers and a patient on board
Alisha Coleman, who worked in a 911 call center for nearly a decade, said she was fired after she unexpectedly got her menstrual cycle at work
It’s true – volunteer EMS isn’t for everyone
Our co-hosts also talk about dealing with failures in EMS and how to assist colleagues with growth
In its second year, the EMS Trend Report describes revealing changes in clinical care, finance and the use of technology in EMS
EMS Trend Report 2017 findings highlight the importance of fatigue management as a safety issue for both caregivers and patients
Our panel of EMS leaders discusses changes, both positive and alarming, and what the data means for growing and improving EMS
It’s time for EMS providers to adopt the label by which the public already knows us: paramedics
Challenging ALS and BLS standards of emergency medicine to improve patient outcomes and satisfaction
Healthcare spending, the silver tsunami, technology and epidemiology issues require innovative solutions
Implement a corrective plan which fixes underlying performance issues rather than repeating the cycle of disciplinary action
Research offers solutions to EMS providers’ hesitation regarding additional duties, hours and changing perception CP programs may bring
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Officials said around five or six EMS providers and dispatchers were in the building at the time, but no one was injured
The lawsuit says that 1,300 patients taken to IU Health Bloomington Hospital’s ER should have been transported to Monroe Hospital because it was closer
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