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Date: Nov 2023
Discusses gaps in data on rural emergency medical service (EMS) agencies and systems of care. Summarizes findings from a review of state EMS agency licensing applications and discussions from a panel of rural EMS experts. Identifies a consensus set of core EMS licensure elements and definitions for consideration by state EMS authorities in order to enhance licensure application processes and align data collection efforts with other states.
...EMS Agency Licensure Elements and Definitions to Support Rural EMS Data Collection --- Discusses gaps in data...
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...
Date: Jan 2019
Serves as an update to the 1996 EMS Agenda for the Future. Reports the vision of emergency medical services (EMS) of the future and describes 6 guiding principles to help EMS and communities create a more people-centered EMS system. Discusses challenges specific to rural communities, such as EMS workforce issues.
...EMS Agenda for the Future. Reports the vision of emergency medical services (EMS) of the future...
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: 2022
Presents data on rural-relevant EMS quality measures for North Dakota, focusing on cardiac, stroke, pain, vitals, and safety using 2021 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, gender, 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...
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: 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: 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...