N.J. EMS Council Receives $7,000 AT & T Contribution to Support Cadet Scholarships
SAYREVILLE, NJ – AT&T has contributed $7,000 to support the EMS Council of New Jersey’s (EMSCNJ) cadet scholarship program. The 89-year-old nonprofit New Jersey State First Aid Council, now doing business as the EMSCNJ, represents 20,000 EMS volunteers affiliated with 250+ EMS agencies throughout the Garden State. Today Althea Yancy, Regional Director, AT&T, presented EMSCNJ President Joseph G. Walsh, Jr. with a check, which will be used to expand the organization’s cadet scholarship program. “We distribute scholarships twice a year, as our budget allows,” Walsh said. “We always receive many mo...
Source: JEMS Administration and Leadership - October 16, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: EMSCNJ and AT & T (Press Release) Tags: Administration and Leadership Industry News Press Releases Source Type: news

California's Prop. 11: Ambulance Company has Spent Nearly $22M on Ballot Measure
This article was written by Eric Murphy. From 2013 to 2014, Eric Murphy was employed by AFSCME International. United EMS Workers is a subdivision of that union. It comes to JEMS from Mission Local, a San Francisco-area local, independent neighborhood news source.  (Source: JEMS Administration and Leadership)
Source: JEMS Administration and Leadership - October 15, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Eric Murphy, Mission News Tags: News Administration and Leadership Source Type: news

Virginia Fire Department Searches for Backup EMS Provider
MARTINSVILLE, Va. (WSLS 10) - Martinsville continues search for backup EMS provider.  In the time being, the city's part-time firefighters will help cover medical calls.   (Source: JEMS Administration and Leadership)
Source: JEMS Administration and Leadership - October 11, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: WSLS 10 Tags: News News Videos Administration and Leadership Source Type: news

Global EMS Community Looks to NAEMSP for Medical Director Training
OVERLAND PARK, KS – The National Association of EMS Physicians (NAEMSP) has been invited to provide international medical director training at DevelopingEM 2018. EMS medical directors from across the United States will teach the NAEMSP International Medical Directors Overview Course on December 2, 2018. The one-day pre-conference workshop will focus on enhancing physicians’ expertise in real-world EMS issues. DevelopingEM is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the practical delivery of emergency medicine and critical care education. Its 2018 conference will take place December 3-6 in Fiji, where it will sponsor local...
Source: JEMS Administration and Leadership - October 10, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: NAEMSP (press release) Tags: Administration and Leadership Industry News Press Releases Source Type: news

Disruption Is on the Horizon, Are You Ready?
As I sit back and attempt to watch our industry from afar, so that I can strategize to anticipate the next “big thing” in EMS, I find myself peering into tumultuous seas ahead. With the only consistency in healthcare, technology, society, finance and the economy being that of rapid fire and unpredictable change, the analogy often spoken of when I ask my peers how things are going and about their future is that they’re all drinking from fire hoses. Although the thought of that concept initially brings me back to my childhood, when drinking from a garden hose was OK and a favorite summer pastime, clearly attempting to ...
Source: JEMS Administration and Leadership - October 5, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Jonathan D. Washko, MBA, NRP, AEMD Tags: Columns Exclusive Articles Administration and Leadership Source Type: news

Incoming President of AAA Lays Out Vision of Cooperation and Inclusion
It is my honor to serve as the new president of the American Ambulance Association. I wanted to share with you a bit about my vision for our association over these next two years. Choices & Challenges As I prepared to take office, I spent a lot of time thinking deeply about where we've come, where we are, and where we're going. It occurs to me that the next two years will likely be about choices: We can choose to be an association that is the nation’s voice for ambulances services; or we can choose not to. We can choose to stand tall in the face of adversity; or we can choose not to. We can choose to work even harder...
Source: JEMS Administration and Leadership - October 5, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Aarron Reinert, MA, NRP Tags: Columns News Administration and Leadership Source Type: news

Fire Dept. in No. Kentucky Can't Staff Own Ambulance; Requires Help from Neighboring Depts.
  MORNING VIEW, Ky. -- The Kenton Fire District's ambulance hasn't left the garage since late June.  It isn't broken. The department simply can't afford to pay the two qualified emergency medical technicians required by state law to deploy it. Until the Morning View-based fire department finds either more money or EMTs willing to work on a strictly volunteer basis, fellow fire departments from Independence, Fiskburg and Ryland Heights  -- each at least 15 minutes away -- will take over ambulance duties. Read more at WCPO. (Source: JEMS Administration and Leadership)
Source: JEMS Administration and Leadership - October 5, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Kristen Swilley (WCPO) Tags: News News Videos Administration and Leadership Source Type: news

Mistake at Raleigh 911 Center Cost 15 Minutes in Sending Ambulance to Dying Man
  RALEIGH, N.C. — A Wake County EMS ambulance wasn't dispatched for 15 minutes following a 911 call in April as a man lay dying in a car dealership parking lot after suffering a heart attack, according to 911 calls and other emergency dispatch information obtained by WRAL News. James Pasternak called the Raleigh-Wake Emergency Communications Center at 7:57 a.m. on April 5 as he rushed his father-in-law, 63-year-old Steven Tibbetts, a retired Wake County magistrate, to a hospital after Tibbetts became unresponsive. "I’m driving in a car with my father-in-law. He has a pacemaker, and he is not – he just passe...
Source: JEMS Administration and Leadership - October 4, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Amanda Lamb (WRAL reporter) Tags: News News Videos Communications & Dispatch Source Type: news

Vegas Hockey Team Helps Honor First Responders for Shooting Response
  Twenty-one Community Ambulance employees who were on scene when gunfire erupted at the Route 91 Harvest festival were honored in Henderson Monday morning. As their names were called for to collect his or her Medal of Valor, they shook hands with several members of the Vegas Golden Knights, including Jonathan Marchessault, Nate Schmidt and Max Pacioretty. Read more at the Las Vegas Review-Journal. (Source: JEMS Administration and Leadership)
Source: JEMS Administration and Leadership - October 2, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Blake Apgar, Las Vegas Review-Journal Tags: News News Videos Administration and Leadership Source Type: news

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Source: JEMS Administration and Leadership - October 1, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Paul Combs Tags: Administration and Leadership Comics Source Type: news

Paramedics and Cop Charged in Death of Man at Detroit-area Jail
DETROIT (AP) — A police officer and two paramedics failed to help a man who was convulsing for more than an hour and eventually died from cocaine toxicity at a Detroit-area jail, a prosecutor said Monday as she filed involuntary manslaughter charges against the trio. William Marshall was in custody for drug possession when he died in the Westland police lock-up in December. Wayne County prosecutor Kym Worthy said a state police investigation showed an "inexcusable and criminal disregard for human life from those who have a duty to serve him, protect him and render aid." She said video of the incident was a &quo...
Source: JEMS Administration and Leadership - October 1, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Ed White, Associated Press Tags: News Administration and Leadership Source Type: news

Hall Ambulance Receives Accolades from the California Ambulance Association
Hall Ambulance’s founder and two Company programs received statewide recognition by the California Ambulance Association (CAA) during its 70th Annual Convention this week at Harvey’s Lake Tahoe Resort. On behalf of the CAA’s Board of Directors, Ross Elliott, executive director, posthumously conferred Emeritus Recognition upon Harvey L. Hall for his distinctive service to the science & art of ambulance services. Considered a pioneer of modern EMS in California, Hall dedicated 58 of his 77 years of life to professionalizing the ambulance industry, in part, through his involvement in the CAA, which represents pr...
Source: JEMS Administration and Leadership - September 28, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Hall Ambulance Tags: Administration and Leadership Industry News Press Releases Source Type: news

Florida EMT fired and Paramedics Suspended for Failing to Follow Protocol Resulting in Death of a Patient
  HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. (WFTS) -- Hillsborough County Officials have issued disciplinary actions against four Fire Rescue personnel involved in an incident that resulted in the death of a new mother. An internal investigation of the July 4 incident revealed that "the four Fire Rescue personnel failed to perform their duties as Hillsborough County Fire Rescue Standard Operating Procedures were violated. The four employees were provided a number of opportunities to respond including written statements, questioning and pre-disciplinary hearing process," county officials said in a press release Wednesday. Th...
Source: JEMS Administration and Leadership - September 27, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Various Sources Tags: News Administration and Leadership Source Type: news

State Investigating Washington Firefighters Training on Dead Body
BELLINGHAM, Washington (KIRO) - The state health department is now investigating after firefighters in Bellingham did an intubation procedure on a dead patient for their own training. Washington Firefighters Misuse Funeral Home Body for Intubation Training An investigative report by the city found 11 employees attempted to intubate the body 15 times on the floor of a fire station. When a nursing home patient died in a Bellingham medic unit this summer, firefighters brought his body to a fire station when the hospital didn't accept it. According to a city investigation obtained by KIRO 7, when the funeral home reported it w...
Source: JEMS Administration and Leadership - September 27, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: News Administration and Leadership Source Type: news

More Than 2,700 Attendees Show They Will 'Never Forget' at Sixth Annual 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb
Firefighters, their families, friends and community members from across the nation gathered at historic Lambeau Field on Saturday, September 22nd to participate in the sixth annual 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb. More than 2,700 participants promised to “never forget” by honoring and remembering the 343 New York firefighters who lost their lives on September 11, 2001. This year’s event raised more than $135,000 with all proceeds benefitting the NFFF and has again been recognized as one of the largest stair climbs in the nation. “Each year, the Green Bay Metro Fire Department forms a team and we encourage community membe...
Source: JEMS Administration and Leadership - September 26, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Administration and Leadership Industry News Source Type: news