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Date: Feb 2002
Reports on a survey of state EMS directors regarding access to rural EMS, programs and initiatives by state EMS agencies that target rural and volunteer EMS providers, integration initiatives by rural EMS providers, issues in medical direction for rural EMS, and anticipated effects of the new Medicare fee schedule on rural EMS providers.
...EMS Agencies --- Reports on a survey of state EMS directors regarding access to rural EMS...
Added: Jul 16, 2020
Learn what community paramedicine is and the different components of a community paramedicine program.
...EMS program may be too costly to maintain. Standalone or third-party EMS. Some EMS...
Date: May 2025
Examines emergency medical services (EMS) in rural Wisconsin and provides a comparative analysis of EMS across rural counties and in other states. Focuses on policy interventions, recruitment and retention, training barriers, EMS infrastructure, financial constraints, and more. Includes data from an EMS reliability survey and interview feedback from EMS professionals.
...EMS reliability survey and interview feedback from EMS professionals. --- View more Inadequate EMS in Rural...
Date: 2007
Identifies ideas that can be applied in rural and frontier EMS agencies to support rural EMS services. A companion document to the 2004 report, the Rural and Frontier EMS Agenda for the Future.
...EMS --- Identifies ideas that can be applied in rural and frontier EMS agencies to support...
Date: Oct 14, 2025
A rural Montana sheriff's department is offering deputies a first responder medical training and certification program. The program would allow deputies to assist emergency medical services (EMS) providers in situations with multiple victims or provide aid while waiting for EMS to arrive. Notes that understaffing, poor weather, and large service areas can make EMS response times long. Discusses upcoming work by the state legislature to address EMS challenges. Source: EMS 1.
...EMS) providers in situations with multiple victims or provide aid while waiting for EMS to arrive...
Date: 2024
Presents data on rural-relevant EMS quality measures for North Dakota, focusing on cardiac, stroke, pain, vitals, and safety using 2023 data from the North Dakota State EMS Repository. Compares metrics in each focal area to national rates.
...EMS Index: North Dakota Rural EMS Counts --- Presents data on rural-relevant EMS quality measures...
Date: May 2018
Policy brief describing challenges for rural EMS providers, including workforce shortages and inconsistent funding. Features statistics including percentage of potentially excess deaths for 5 leading causes of death, with breakdowns by metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas, and average EMS call time response and distribution of all-volunteer and all-paid staff EMS agencies, with breakdowns by 4 levels of population density. Discusses effects of the opioid crisis and Critical Access Hospital closures on provision of EMS services.
...EMS Services in Rural America: Challenges and Opportunities --- Policy brief describing challenges for rural EMS...
Date: 2018
Analyzes emergency medical services (EMS) data to describe multiple casualty incidents (MCIs) in Minnesota from 2014 through 2016. Includes data on MCIs by age, race, sex, rural versus urban areas, provider first impression, and more. Compares response time benchmarks for rural and urban incidents. Offers data describing rural EMS staffing challenges.
...EMS staffing challenges. --- View more EMS Response to Multiple Casualty Incidents: A Description of the EMS...
Date: Sep 7, 2016
Tom Nerhing, Co-chair of the Joint Committee on Rural EMS Care (JCREC) and Division Director at the North Dakota Department of Health, Division of EMS and Trauma, shares how the changes in healthcare delivery can be an opportunity for emergency medical services to provide an even greater service to rural communities. - The Rural Monitor
...EMS Care (JCREC) and Division Director at the North Dakota Department of Health, Division of EMS...
Added: Jul 16, 2020
Describes community paramedicine programs that focus on high utilizers and other patients who are not well-served by emergency medical service transportation to the emergency department.
...EMS) generally involve rapid response to the scene, life-saving or stabilizing measures, and then...