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Website Search Results for: EMS

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31. Rural EMS Workforce: A Call to Action - Resources
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...

32. 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...

33. '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...

34. 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...

35. Expecting More Services for Less Compensation - The Rural Monitor - Rural Monitor
Date: Sep 7, 2016

Diane Calmus, Government Affairs and Policy Manager at the National Rural Health Association, explores the need for a new hospital model to help rural communities gain and maintain access to emergency medical services. - The Rural Monitor

...EMS. But this cannot be expecting more services for less compensation. EMS plays an essential...

36. Community Paramedicine Overview - Topic Guides
Reviewed: Aug 29, 2024

Provides information, resources, and answers frequently asked questions related to community paramedicine. Covers benefits and challenges community paramedicine programs in rural communities, defines the role of community paramedics, discusses education and licensure requirements requirements for community paramedic providers, and program funding. Includes community paramedicine models and existing program examples.

...EMS) to receive healthcare in non-emergency situations. This can create a burden for EMS...

37. The Training Pipeline for EMS Personnel in South Carolina - Resources
Date: Jun 2019

Results of a 2017-2018 survey of all South Carolina institutions and regional EMS training centers that prepare students to take national EMS certification exams. Features county-level maps showing numbers of graduates of programs for emergency medical technicians (EMTs), advanced EMTs (AEMTs), and paramedics, with breakdowns by rural or urban location.

...EMS training centers that prepare students to take national EMS certification exams. Features county-level...

38. National Association of EMS Educators (NAEMSE) - Organizations
Reviewed: Feb 19, 2025

Summary information for the organization National Association of EMS Educators, including related information from this organization listed on the RHIhub website.

...training officers, EMS physicians, EMS nurses, and EMS state officials. Tagged as EMS and Trauma...

39. State Flex Program Rural Emergency Medical Services Assessment Strategies - Resources
Date: Nov 2017

Policy brief describing the emergency medical service (EMS) assessment projects and tools implemented by five State Flex Programs in Arizona, California, Minnesota, Nebraska, and Wisconsin to improve the integration of EMS into rural systems of care. Identifies differences in EMS focused State Flex activities and collaborations to improve local and regional EMS capacity and performance.

...EMS into rural systems of care. Identifies differences in EMS focused State Flex activities and collaborations...

40. Minnesota 2016 Rural EMS Sustainability Survey Results - Resources
Date: 2016

Reports the results of a rural emergency medical service (EMS) sustainability survey conducted in Minnesota in 2016. Analyzes data describing rural EMS characteristics, workforce and staffing, medical direction, financial management, agency leadership, and community relations.

...EMS Sustainability Survey Results --- Reports the results of a rural emergency medical service (EMS) sustainability...