Website Search Results for: EMS
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Reviewed: Jul 2025
Provides a self-assessment and resources to help rural ambulance agencies move from volume to value and meet the core competencies outlined in the Baldridge Excellence Framework for Health Care. Offers resources related to EMS leadership, strategic planning, the workforce, operations and processes, community involvement, data collection and analysis, and quality outcomes.
...EMS leadership, strategic planning, the workforce, operations and processes, community involvement, data collection and analysis...
Added: Jul 16, 2020
Describes common potential barriers to establishing a community paramedicine program in rural areas and identifies solutions that have been implemented by some communities.
...EMS) and community health programs may experience some challenges when trying to establish a community...
Added: Jul 16, 2020
Information on community paramedicine programs that focus on connecting patients with resources for food, housing, transportation, and other social services.
...EMS in Wadena, Minnesota, provides home visits to patients at high risk of readmissions and works...
Date: Jul 2018
An overview of crisis care operational strategies for first responders, ambulance service providers, public safety answering points (PSAP)/9-1-1 dispatchers, and other crisis related healthcare facilities and organizations. Developed by a Minnesota EMS Crisis Standards of Care Workgroup to provide guidance for rural and urban communities in their development of crisis care policies and procedures. Discusses surge capacity, rural ambulance service dispatch and destination considerations, applicable Minnesota state statutes and ordinances, the importance of a formal review and quality assurance process, and recovery priorities for ambulance services.
...EMS Crisis Standards of Care Workgroup to provide guidance for rural and urban communities in their...
Date: May 27, 2015
What rural hospitals can do to stay viable in difficult times, with insights from Charles Owens, executive director of the Georgia Department of Community Health, State Office of Rural Health. - The Rural Monitor
...EMS). When a rural hospital closes, EMS may become the main source of healthcare for the area...
Date: Sep 7, 2016
Gary Wingrove, President of the Paramedic Foundation, discusses the vital role emergency medical services play in rural communities, and the role community paramedics can fill in a changing healthcare system. - The Rural Monitor
...EMS leaders, answering the question What do the recent changes to – and the transformation of – rural...
Date: Oct 2022
Explores a variety of characteristics of Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) and rural hospitals eligible to convert to the Rural Emergency Hospital (REH) designation, including patient volume, services and technology, EMS, and clinical staffing characteristics. Compares eligible hospitals by emergency department volume in 2019. Summarizes observations made by emergency department physician advisers regarding this data and REH implementation concerns.
...EMS, and clinical staffing characteristics. Compares eligible hospitals by emergency department volume in 2019. Summarizes...
Reviewed: Dec 4, 2024
Summary information for the organization Indiana Department of Homeland Security: Emergency Medical Services, including related information from this organization listed on the RHIhub website.
...EMS) professionals within Indiana. Provides training opportunities, guidelines on various EMS protocols, testing, and resources...
Date: 2007
Summarizes the proceedings of three one-day regional dissemination workshops, conducted in Salt Lake City, UT; Chicago, IL; and New Orleans, LA. Topics include pediatric emergency care and care in rural areas; workforce issues and hospital efficiency; and EMS issues and disaster preparedness.
...EMS issues and disaster preparedness. --- View more Future of Emergency Care: Dissemination Workshop Summaries Link...
Date: Mar 2010
Examines State Flex Program trauma-related and emergency medical system (EMS) activities and the designation of Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) as trauma centers. Includes data by state on CAH trauma center designation.
...EMS) activities and the designation of Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) as trauma centers. Includes data...