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
Our co-hosts discuss the week’s top stories and how providers can positively impact the EMS industry during their career
Captain Ashley Losch explains the endless coordination at play, identifies the biggest hurdles ahead, and even spills a little big game tea
Be more proactive in your processes and maintain high-level standards of care
Fire and police leaders met with dispatch center officials and questioned a recent notice that services would be reduced due to staffing
Like it or not, the reality of doing what we do is that EMS is a business, and like any business, income must at least meet or exceed expenditures to remain solvent and afloat
The Kettering Health Network is seeking to recruit EMTs to work for their mobile care unit
The Minnesota Department of Health says 80% of the state’s rural ambulance services rely on volunteers, and 60% of volunteer services are short-staffed
The college and the state’s volunteer firefighters’ association created the scholarship to encourage volunteering
The center has increased its staff by 50% and dispatchers say they are experiencing less stress
New York Fire Department EMS Chief Lillian Bonsignore credits the support and encouragement she received from the women in her life for her success in emergency medicine
With increasing calls and costs, and an unraveling funding model, officials warn ambulance services across the state are in danger of closing
The forum sought to gather input from officials and providers as a study is underway to assess the county’s EMS challenges
The Maryland State Police copter has been running within limited hours and at times has been out of service during emergencies
The ambulance service gave the municipalities a 90-day notice but had to close earlier than expected
The services called for reductions in education, training and certification requirements as they face volunteer shortages
The department plans to provide nontransport advanced life support in anticipation that their county’s ambulances will be taxed responding to the next county over
Promote a paradigm shift in your recruiting practices to hire your next employee and keep them engaged
Town leaders and community members bolstered a grassroots effort to revive the squad, which nearly closed down last year
The city’s EMS director resigned after the mayor halted the hiring process, which officials say will now move ahead
The wonder, compassion and joy new EMTs experience can remind us why we entered EMS in the first place
Taney County Ambulance District Chief Darryl Coontz discusses the department’s approach to staffing and how they avoid retention issues
American Medical Response’s “earn while you learn” academies aim to address an EMT shortage and compensate trainees for lost work time
“We don’t have an option of operating below a certain level ... we must fill the seat. Our overtime has exploded,” Scott Campbell, director of public safety, said
Today’s EMS providers must focus on workforce culture to succeed, and deliver safe patient care with pride
Jackson Community Ambulance added additional paramedics and available rigs due to the area receiving more than a foot of snow
Gaston County EMS leadership has developed career pathways to increased responsibilities, and compensation to match
Lawmakers passed 16 bills in the last two weeks aimed at supporting first responders, including mental health initiatives and tax credits
In a Facebook post, Port Matilda EMS wrote that it has “enough funds available to cover one more payroll cycle and that is it”
Jesup Ambulance Service posted the offer on social media after the number of EMTs in the city dropped to five
“For the amount of calls our paramedics run, there should be eight [ambulances] in service, and right now we are fighting for a fifth”
Chicago has the largest number of women fighting fires and working on ambulances of any city in the country, but they make up less than 10% of the department’s total personnel
Legislators said they have seen how hard it is to recruit and retain volunteers and that the paperwork required with fulfilling requests would be “burdensome”
“We’re getting to a crisis-level of being unable to hire,” Chad Black, chairman of the Georgia Association of Emergency Medical Services, said
