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21. The EMS Compact - Resources
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...

22. EMS Leaders Speak - The Rural Monitor - Rural Monitor
Date: Sep 7, 2016

With the recent changes in healthcare delivery, many rural clinics and hospitals are concerned about the future of their communities' healthcare, especially their emergency medical services. Will EMS in rural areas survive these changes, and is there an opportunity to thrive in a volume-to-value system? We asked five rural EMS leaders to explore the possible challenges and opportunities in the transformation of rural healthcare delivery. - The Rural Monitor

...EMS Leaders Speak - The Rural Monitor --- With the recent changes in healthcare delivery, many rural...

23. 'Filling the Cracks': How a Rural Maine Community Kept its 24/7 Urgent Care Open with Paramedics - The Rural Monitor - Rural Monitor
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...

24. Indiana EMS 2025 Report - Resources
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 2025 Report --- Reports on emergency medical services (EMS) in Indiana based on meetings throughout...

25. Kansas EMS Education Incentive Grant Program - Funding
Deadline: Applications accepted on an ongoing basis

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. --- View more Kansas EMS Education Incentive Grant Program Link View Program Website Sponsor...

26. 2023 Indiana EMS Workforce Assessment - Resources
Date: 2024

Provides an overview of the emergency medical services (EMS) workforce in Indiana. Focuses on sustainable EMS workforce tracking, pipeline and retention assessments, and county-level workforce needs. Includes county-level data on population characteristics, such as uninsurance, opioid use, and emergency department utilization rates as compared to EMS workforce characteristics and supply in each respective county.

...EMS Workforce Assessment --- Provides an overview of the emergency medical services (EMS) workforce in Indiana...

27. 2019 Rural Emergency Care Integration Summit: Flex Program Support for Rural EMS: Moving from Loaded Miles to Value-Based Models - Resources
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: Moving from Loaded Miles to Value-Based Models --- Provides an overview of the March...

28. Sustainable Rural EMS: Navigating Change - Resources
Date: Sep 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. --- View more Sustainable Rural EMS: Navigating Change Link View Resource Description Designed to help...

29. Promising Practice: Wisconsin Office of Rural Health Rallies EMS Providers in the State - Resources
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...

30. COVID-19 and Rural EMS - Resources
Date: Jul 2020

Webinar presented July 7, 2020, describing ways in which the pandemic is affecting rural emergency medical services (EMS). Explores adjustments being made by rural ambulance services, examines innovations related to EMS COVID-19 response, and lists resources available to rural EMS and ways that Flex Programs can support these services.

...EMS). Explores adjustments being made by rural ambulance services, examines innovations related to EMS COVID...