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21. The EMS Compact - Resources
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...

22. Mobile Telehealth Units and Care Coordinators Improve Emergency Care Services for Rural Arizona Patients - The Rural Monitor - Rural Monitor
Date: Aug 7, 2019

To address rising ER readmissions, an Arizona healthcare system and network partners adapted an unconventional EMS telehealth service to help rural patients. Coupled with care coordination, mobile telehealth units are saving the healthcare system money while better meeting patients' healthcare needs. - The Rural Monitor

...EMS telehealth service to help rural patients. Coupled with care coordination, mobile telehealth units are saving...

23. 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...

24. Indiana EMS 2025 Report - Resources
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...

25. Kansas EMS Education Incentive Grant Program - Funding
Deadline: Applications accepted on an ongoing basis

Grants for licensed ambulance services in rural, frontier, and densely settled rural areas of Kansas to help with recruiting, training, and certifying ambulance EMS providers.

...EMS providers. --- View more Kansas EMS Education Incentive Grant Program Link View Program Website Sponsor...

26. '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...

27. Idaho Emergency Medical Services (EMS) - Resources
Reviewed: Sep 2024

A bureau within the Idaho Department of Health & Welfare offering information for EMS providers including resources on license applications, EMS rules and regulations, requirements for agency licensure and renewal, agency contacts and grant resources. Provides a discussion of the Idaho Community Health EMS (CHEMS) model and lists certification programs appropriate for CHEMS paramedics.

...EMS) --- A bureau within the Idaho Department of Health & Welfare offering information for EMS providers...

28. 2011 National EMS Assessment - Resources
Date: Dec 2011

Provides a comprehensive description of emergency medical services (EMS), EMS emergency preparedness, and 911 systems at state and national levels. Chapters 9, 10, 158, and 194 discuss rural EMS, including rural status, rural patient transports, and Critical Access Hospitals.

...EMS Assessment --- Provides a comprehensive description of emergency medical services (EMS), EMS emergency preparedness, and 911 systems...

29. 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...

30. 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...