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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...
Date: Feb 7, 2018
Limited funding, expanding coverage areas, and a cultural shift in volunteerism across generations has motivated EMS leaders to find new recruitment methods that attract more personnel and keep them as long as possible. - The Rural Monitor
...EMS Rescue (HGH EMS Rescue) in Winnemucca, Nevada to have 25 full-time paid EMS...
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: Jun 13, 2018
The Oregon Washington Health Network and the Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center are addressing behavioral health challenges through peer counselors and heart disease/cancer prevention through community education. In addition, they're collaborating with local healthcare facilities and medical schools to improve recruitment and retention. - The Rural Monitor
...EMS response can take up to 30 minutes to reach a person in cardiac arrest...
Date: Jun 27, 2018
Moving the conversation away from finances, advocates share why general surgery plays an important role in a comprehensive rural population health strategy by delivering the right care in the right place at the right time. - The Rural Monitor
...EMS teams for other emergent surgical problems, along with fielding questions from other rural providers...
Date: Jul 2018
An overview of crisis care operational strategies for first responders, ambulance service providers, public safety answering points (PSAP)/9-1-1 dispatchers, and other crisis related healthcare facilities and organizations. Developed by a Minnesota EMS Crisis Standards of Care Workgroup to provide guidance for rural and urban communities in their development of crisis care policies and procedures. Discusses surge capacity, rural ambulance service dispatch and destination considerations, applicable Minnesota state statutes and ordinances, the importance of a formal review and quality assurance process, and recovery priorities for ambulance services.
...EMS Crisis Standards of Care Workgroup to provide guidance for rural and urban communities in their...
Date: Oct 2018
Provides information for emergency medical service (EMS) agencies exploring community paramedicine and mobile integrated healthcare (CP-MIH). Includes resources to match CP-MIH services with targeted community health needs and covers rural CP-MIH program examples.
...EMS) agencies exploring community paramedicine and mobile integrated healthcare (CP-MIH). Includes resources to match...
Date: Oct 3, 2018
On average, rural residents wait twice as long for emergency medical services than urban residents. Stop the Bleed is a trauma training initiative that teaches laypeople how to pack wounds and apply tourniquets in order to improve survival rates until medical attention arrives. - The Rural Monitor
...EMS personnel serving rural Nebraska. “A lot of our rural EMS are volunteers,” she said...
Date: Dec 26, 2018
Articles on health workforce issues, the opioid crisis, the social determinants of health, domestic violence, trauma/EMS, and palliative care all made it onto the year's most-read list. - The Rural Monitor
...EMS Dilemma Limited funding, expanding coverage areas, and a cultural shift in volunteerism across generations...
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...