Recruitment & Retention
The EMS1 recruitment and retention topic includes research into what drives providers from the profession, tips for finding, recruiting, hiring and onboarding EMS personnel, as well as strategies for protecting provider emotional and physical health and increasing job satisfaction for the long haul
“You can’t oversee EMS medicine from behind a desk.” With a full-time medical director, providers gain a mentor, coach and advocate.
The EMS Leadership Academy highlights the urgent need to address funding, career pathways and wellness support
When leadership turnover is persistent, is this a personnel issue or a deeper systemic problem?
A 15-month pilot program in Clark County will have basic, advanced EMT training with an $800 biweekly stipend
Chester County commissioners approved a property tax rebate for members of fire and EMS departments
Niagara County officials are moving closer to having a supplemental service up and running
Altura Ambulance Director Jessica Romine told local leaders the service could lose its license due to staffing problems
Pa. EMS officials, legislators call for sustainable funding as departments work with increasing demands and difficulties
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Honolulu Emergency Services is seeing an increase of COVID-19 cases in the department
A majority of EMS1 respondents are split between two shift options – do you agree?
Revenue from the levy will help the Northwest Ambulance District hire six more EMS personnel
Fort Worth-based MedStar has not recieved city funding since 2010, but retention costs for providers have risen since the pandemic, spokesman Matt Zavadsky said
Experienced paramedics will now start at $27.59 an hour, as opposed to the training wage of $16 an hour
A staffing shortage in Orangeburg County led to a three-year contract with MedTrust Medical Transport for additional EMS coverage
A spokesperson for MedStar said costs to retain staff since the COVID-19 pandemic have eaten into their reserve fund
The East Valley Institute of Technology and Superstition Fire & Medical District partner to help small communities hire trained applicants
13 states and the District of Columbia have passed laws making EMS an essential service
The “EMS WV: Answer the Call” campaign launched last year saw an increase in EMTs, advanced EMTs and paramedics
Moshannon Valley EMS sees an increase in EMS jobs and service with their new training facility in Centre County
Bettendorf High School students apprentice as vehicle service technicians before gaining national registry certification and work as an EMT
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An independent report recommends making Kalispell’s EMS coordinator a full-time position and increase ambulance staffing
Current funding has left Lancaster EMS and other ambulance services struggling to recruit and retain qualified personnel
Proposed legislation and discussions take on funding, recruitment and making EMS an essential service
Coverage is sparse and transport times long in places like Pickens County
Chippewa Falls taxpayers approved exceeding a levy limit to hire more fulltime firefighter/paramedics
The graduate degree position in clinical paramedicine is meant to alleviate recruitment and retention losses
Seeing the same operating picture through the Hexagon Mobile for Public Safety software helps HEMSI optimize staffing resources
The Penn Township Ambulance Association has been successful in dealing with funding, staffing and cost-reimbursement problems
Funding and staffing were the main items discussed by EMS stakeholders
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