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Resources Search Results for: EMS

114 Resources webpages matched your search. Here are matches 11 - 20:

11. Rural EMS Workforce: A Call to Action
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...

12. 2023 Indiana EMS Workforce Assessment
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...

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

14. Sustainable Rural EMS: Navigating Change
Date: Sep 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. --- View more Sustainable Rural EMS: Navigating Change Link View Resource Description Designed to help...

15. Indiana EMS 2025 Report
Date: Nov 2024

Reports on emergency medical services (EMS) in Indiana based on meetings throughout 2023 and 2024 with EMS stakeholders. Focuses on funding and sustainability, operations, education, training, and workforce. Includes discussion on EMS access in rural areas.

...EMS 2025 Report --- Reports on emergency medical services (EMS) in Indiana based on meetings throughout...

16. The Training Pipeline for EMS Personnel in South Carolina
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...

17. Emergency Medical Services Response Times in Rural, Suburban, and Urban Areas
Date: Oct 2017

Analyzes 2015 emergency medical services (EMS) data from 485 EMS agencies across the U.S. to describe the time period between a 911 call and EMS arrival, or response time. Includes EMS response time data for rural, suburban, and urban zip codes.

...EMS) data from 485 EMS agencies across the U.S. to describe the time period between...

18. Emergency Medical Services (EMS): A Look at Disparities in Funding and Outcomes
Date: Oct 2024

Details disparities related to rurality, income, sex, and race in emergency medical services (EMS) funding, staffing, and patient outcomes. Provides a case study of local EMS agencies in 11 California counties, highlighting challenges rural agencies face related to funding and quality of care.

...EMS) funding, staffing, and patient outcomes. Provides a case study of local EMS agencies in 11 California...

19. Fostering a Culture of Resilient Rural EMS Webinar
Date: May 2022

Discusses the challenges experienced by rural emergency medical services (EMS) providers and ways to promote positive mental health. Includes commentary on Flex Programs and their role in supporting EMS providers. Transcript available below description.

...EMS Webinar --- Discusses the challenges experienced by rural emergency medical services (EMS) providers and ways...

20. Keeping Rural EMS Reliable and Sustainable, with James Small
Date: Dec 2023

An episode of the Exploring Rural Health podcast featuring James Small, Rural EMS Outreach Director for the Wisconsin Office of Rural Health. Focuses on rural emergency medical services workforce and funding shortages, and how rural EMS can be maintained and expanded.

...EMS can be maintained and expanded. --- View more Keeping Rural EMS Reliable and Sustainable, with...