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Corewell Health and the Grand Rapids Fire Department will launch a six-month pilot in January embedding a community health worker with EMS responses to redirect low-acuity 911 calls
Governor Maura Healey is sending $5M in EMS grants to 13 communities to offset longer transport times and higher call volumes following the closure of Nashoba Valley Medical Center
Facing rising costs and staffing pressures, Lake Wylie ambulance service will transition to Piedmont Medical Center ownership in January
Santa Monica’s new Advanced Provider Unit pairs a nurse practitioner with a firefighter/paramedic, freeing ambulances for critical emergencies and reducing unnecessary transports
Agencies statewide are struggling to recruit and retain paramedics and EMTs as competition for qualified candidates intensifies
Grand Haven leaders unanimously approved Life EMS as their ambulance provider after public safety officials cited concerns with staffing, response times and consistency
FDNY officials said a man was seriously injured after jumping from a fourth-floor Williamsburg apartment window to escape a kitchen fire
Uniformed Services University and NHTSA are launching a federally backed push to expand prehospital blood transfusions
TRENDING NEWS
COLUMNISTS & EXPERTS
Develop restraint polices, train to apply restraints and adhere to those policies when behavioral emergency patient restraint is indicated
It is critical for EMTs and paramedics to check in with one another and advocate nationally for recognition of PTSD as a work-related illness
The mass murder of college students strikes painfully close to home for me and we must not accept this as normal
With heavy- and binge-drinking on the rise, EMS providers can go beyond basic protocols to help connect patient behavior to consequences
There’s hardly a mobile phone out there that can’t capture video, but EMS providers must maintain professionalism regardless of if they’re being filmed
The hits just keep on coming, as the embattled department sees failure after failure
PRODUCT NEWS
Pa. police stopped the stolen rig more than 20 miles away
Naperville’s International MedTec series 4300 rig had been a reserve vehicle, was destined for Mexico, then went to a Ukrainian hospital before its current location
Social security numbers and other information belonging to at least 100,000 people was taken, according to court documents
The rig flipped onto its side, and one passenger in the Jeep had to be extricated
Area Ambulance Service is the latest U.S. agency to donate a used rig instead of selling it
After an ambulance with its lights and siren on was forced to drive onto a median to avoid a collision, Harmony EMS issued a reminder to pull over
Crews rushed to move the injured recruits off a live electrical wire downed in the crash and stabilize as many patients as possible
Central EMS EMT Gina Ayres, 57, was driving the ambulance in a turn lane with its lights and siren activated
‘We need a tourniquet': LASD recruits render aid to wounded after driver plowed into them during run
“We need an airway for him,” one recruit shouted, while another was heard repeatedly saying, “We need help, here. Help, here.”
All four people were transported to area hospitals