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61. Access to Emergency Medical Services in Rural Communities: Policy Brief and Recommendations to the Secretary - Resources
Date: Nov 2022

Provides an overview of issues related to the provision of emergency medical services (EMS) in rural areas. Discusses rural EMS access, financing, and workforce challenges, as well as promising telehealth innovations. Outlines federal programs and resources that support EMS programs. Offers policy recommendations related to access to EMS, workforce, and reimbursement.

...EMS) in rural areas. Discusses rural EMS access, financing, and workforce challenges, as well as promising...

62. Rural EMS Managers Awareness Program - Resources - Archive
Date: 2007

Provides new emergency medical services agency managers with an orientation to the broad scope of an EMS system. Includes background information and covers 14 components of the EMS system.

...EMS system. Includes background information and covers 14 components of the EMS system. --- Rural EMS...

63. HERO: Helping EMS in Rural Oregon - Funding
Deadline: Feb 27, 2026

Grants to rural and remote EMS agencies in Oregon to cover in-house training costs or to send staff to training that cannot be offered locally.

...EMS in Rural Oregon --- Grants to rural and remote EMS agencies in Oregon to cover...

64. Rural EMS Regionalization - Opportunities and Policy Considerations - Resources
Date: Aug 2025

Explores models of emergency medical services (EMS) at the state level. Includes a case study exploring successes in Minnesota and offers policy recommendations to overcome common rural EMS challenges.

...EMS Regionalization - Opportunities and Policy Considerations --- Explores models of emergency medical services (EMS) at the state...

65. State Flex Program Rural Emergency Medical Services Assessment Strategies - Resources
Date: Nov 2017

Policy brief describing the emergency medical service (EMS) assessment projects and tools implemented by five State Flex Programs in Arizona, California, Minnesota, Nebraska, and Wisconsin to improve the integration of EMS into rural systems of care. Identifies differences in EMS focused State Flex activities and collaborations to improve local and regional EMS capacity and performance.

...EMS into rural systems of care. Identifies differences in EMS focused State Flex activities and collaborations...

66. Keeping Rural EMS Reliable and Sustainable, with James Small - Resources
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. --- Keeping Rural EMS Reliable and Sustainable, with James Small...

67. Obesity in Rural America, with Jennifer Conner and Jason Lofton – Exploring Rural Health Podcast - Podcast Episode
Date: Nov 1, 2022

The November 2022 episode of RHIhub's podcast features Jennifer Conner, DrPH, an associate professor with the Delta Population Health Institute at the NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State University, and Jason Lofton, MD, a family physician at the Lofton Family Clinic in De Queen, Arkansas, in a discussion about rural obesity and how rural patients can live their healthiest life.

...em for free. I've had a few patients that I've just let 'em...

68. Time Critical Incident Responses: Results from the 2016 Rural EMS Sustainability Survey - Resources
Date: May 2019

Analyzes 2016 survey data to examine how rural emergency medical services (EMS) in Minnesota are trained to assess, manage, and treat patients experiencing time critical events, such as trauma, stroke, ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), or sudden cardiac arrest. Includes time critical event statistics for each rural EMS region.

...EMS Sustainability Survey --- Analyzes 2016 survey data to examine how rural emergency medical services (EMS...

69. County Offers Leave for EMS Volunteers - News
Date: Jul 15, 2026

A North Dakota county has changed an employee policy to allow county staff to use leave from work for volunteer ambulance service. The change is intended to increase the pool of emergency medical service (EMS) volunteers. Notes that volunteers are common for staffing rural EMS. Source: National Association of Counties County News.

...EMS) volunteers. Notes that volunteers are common for staffing rural EMS. Source: National Association of Counties...

70. Rural and Frontier EMS Town Hall Meeting Summary - Resources - Archive
Date: 2007

Highlights several town hall meetings that were conducted by the Rural EMS and Trauma Technical Assistance Center during which rural EMS providers identified issues of concern to their local agency. Topics covered include funding, advocacy, recruitment and retention, training, and public awareness of the emergency medical technician (EMT) profession.

...EMS and Trauma Technical Assistance Center during which rural EMS providers identified issues of concern...