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Reviewed: Mar 2024
Information on the agreement enabling emergency medical service (EMS) personnel licensed in Compact member states to cross state borders to practice and work in other Compact states without getting an EMS license in the remote state. Describes ways in which this agreement may enhance communities' responses to COVID-19 when local resources are reduced. Includes a map showing locations of EMS Compact states and contact information for each member state's Compact Commissioner.
...EMS Compact --- Information on the agreement enabling emergency medical service (EMS) personnel licensed in Compact...
Date: Aug 7, 2019
To address rising ER readmissions, an Arizona healthcare system and network partners adapted an unconventional EMS telehealth service to help rural patients. Coupled with care coordination, mobile telehealth units are saving the healthcare system money while better meeting patients' healthcare needs. - The Rural Monitor
...EMS telehealth service to help rural patients. Coupled with care coordination, mobile telehealth units are saving...
Date: Jan 2018
Describes how EMS Day at the Wisconsin capitol brought 50 local EMS agencies and two state EMS associations together to meet with state legislators and advocate for their support and recognition of their needs. This event developed out of an effort by the Wisconsin Office of Rural Health (WI-ORH) to design and implement an assessment tool evaluating rural ambulance services within the state.
...EMS Day at the Wisconsin capitol brought 50 local EMS agencies and two state EMS...
Date: Jan 2019
Examines state Flex program initiatives to improve time critical diagnoses (TCD) care systems and integrate rural emergency medical services (EMS) into area care systems, particularly Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs). Briefly describes what each of the 17 participating states did to collaborate with EMS stakeholders, enhance TCD capacity, support EMS training, provide technical assistance to local EMS agencies, and collect EMS and TCD data.
...EMS stakeholders, enhance TCD capacity, support EMS training, provide technical assistance to local EMS agencies...
Date: Nov 2024
Reports on emergency medical services (EMS) in Indiana based on meetings throughout 2023 and 2024 with EMS stakeholders. Focuses on funding and sustainability, operations, education, training, and workforce. Includes discussion on EMS access in rural areas.
...EMS access in rural areas. --- Indiana EMS 2025 Report Reports on emergency medical services (EMS...
Date: Oct 5, 2022
To keep 24/7 urgent care available in Maine's Moose River Valley, a new pilot program lets paramedics take shifts staffing the local health center after-hours and on weekends. - The Rural Monitor
...EMS as the spackle of healthcare: If there's a crack, you can use EMS...
Date: Nov 2021
Designed to help rural communities navigate a change from unsustainable volunteer emergency medical services (EMS) and ambulance service models to those that are sustainable. Intended to direct community leaders through change based on a stepped process that has been used in rural communities throughout the U.S. Includes information on how to assess whether a community has an EMS problem, ingredients needed to change, and a process to implement change to a more sustainable model of rural EMS.
...EMS. --- Sustainable Rural EMS: Navigating Change Designed to help rural communities navigate a change from...
Date: Aug 2019
Provides an overview of the March 2019 Rural Emergency Care Summit convened by the National Rural Health Resource Center. Explores the role of emergency medical services (EMS) as the healthcare system transitions from volume-based to value-based care. Addresses challenges to EMS and hospital collaboration and strategies for future integration. Discusses how Flex Programs could support rural EMS improvements.
...EMS improvements. --- 2019 Rural Emergency Care Integration Summit: Flex Program Support for Rural EMS: Moving...
Deadline: Jun 15, 2026
Grants for licensed ambulance services in rural, frontier, and densely settled rural areas of Kansas to help with recruiting, training, and certifying ambulance EMS providers.
...EMS providers. --- Kansas EMS Education Incentive Grant Program Kansas Board of Emergency Medical Services 785.296.7296 The Kansas...
Date: Feb 2021
Policy brief discussing rural emergency medical services (EMS) systems. Highlights challenges facing the rural EMS workforce, including the costs of training and reimbursement concerns. Outlines policy recommendations to strengthen rural EMS systems.
...EMS Workforce: A Call to Action --- Policy brief discussing rural emergency medical services (EMS) systems...