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Date: Jun 2000
Shares a vision for an emergency medical services (EMS) education system that emphasizes the integration of EMS within the overall healthcare system. Discusses a systems approach to EMS education to enhance consistency of instructional quality. Identifies limitations of EMS education and proposed solutions.
...EMS) education system that emphasizes the integration of EMS within the overall healthcare system. Discusses...
Date: Sep 2001
Minutes from a National Advisory Committee on Rural Health & Human Services meeting addressing the following topics: an update from the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, a report being prepared on the rural safety net, federal emergency medical services (EMS) activity, and Maine EMS services.
...EMS) activity, and Maine EMS services. --- View more National Advisory Committee on Rural Health & Human...
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: Mar 2002
Focuses on the key issues confronting state rural health directors. The major research issues identified were workforce, mental health, EMS, telemedicine, and a lack of local data.
...EMS, telemedicine, and a lack of local data. --- View more Essential Research Issues in Rural...
Date: Apr 2002
Discusses rural considerations in emergency preparedness. Covers involvement of State Offices of Rural Health in bioterrorism preparedness. Discusses rural public health and EMS preparedness issues.
...EMS preparedness issues. --- View more Rural Communities and Emergency Preparedness Link View Resource Description Discusses...
Date: May 2004
Describes trends in state activities for the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program (Flex Program). Includes an overview and specific state examples for different aspects of the Flex program, including rural health planning, Critical Access Hospital designation, EMS, quality improvement, and health information technology.
...EMS, quality improvement, and health information technology. --- View more A Synthesis of State Flex Program...
Date: Aug 2004
Explores a potential indicator of EMS availability, Expected Annual Emergency Miles per Ambulance (EXAMB). Illustrates how EXAMB could be applied using ambulance availability data from five states: Mississippi, Oregon, South Carolina, Washington, and Wyoming. Includes policy and research recommendations.
...EMS) Infrastructure: A Developmental Methodology for Measuring the Availability of EMS Resources --- Explores a potential...
Date: Feb 2006
Describes the EMS-related projects that states proposed to conduct in fiscal year 2004-2005 as part of the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program.
...EMS) Activities Funded by the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program --- Describes the EMS-related projects...
Date: Apr 2006
Provides information on paid and volunteer Emergency Medical Services (EMS) workers in frontier and rural areas. Discusses challenges facing volunteer EMS systems and provides examples of different types of programs from several states.
...EMS) workers in frontier and rural areas. Discusses challenges facing volunteer EMS systems and provides...
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...