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21. 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...

22. Mobile Telehealth Units and Care Coordinators Improve Emergency Care Services for Rural Arizona Patients - The Rural Monitor - Rural Monitor
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...

23. 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...

24. Kansas EMS Education Incentive Grant Program - Funding
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...

25. Idaho Emergency Medical Services (EMS) - Resources
Reviewed: Sep 2025

A bureau within the Idaho Department of Health & Welfare offering information for EMS providers including resources on license applications, EMS rules and regulations, requirements for agency licensure and renewal, agency contacts and grant resources. Provides a discussion of the Idaho Community Health EMS (CHEMS) model and lists certification programs appropriate for CHEMS paramedics.

...EMS) --- A bureau within the Idaho Department of Health & Welfare offering information for EMS providers...

26. 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 improvements. --- 2019 Rural Emergency Care Integration Summit: Flex Program Support for Rural EMS: Moving...

27. Sustainable Rural EMS: Navigating Change - Resources
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...

28. Heat-Related EMS Activation Surveillance Dashboard - Resources
Reviewed: Jun 2025

Mapping dashboard that shows Emergency Medical Services activations related to heat illness. Includes data at the state and county level for the previous 14 and 30 days. Selecting the Disparity Explorer tab shows patient data related to EMS response time, rate of EMS activation, number of deaths, and EMS transportation for patients at the urban, suburban, rural, and frontier levels. Updated weekly.

...EMS response time, rate of EMS activation, number of deaths, and EMS transportation for patients...

29. Improving Rural Systems of Care for Time Critical Diagnoses: A Review of State Flex Program Activities - Resources
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...

30. 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...