EMS providers can play an important role in a patient’s ongoing care and safety. Scene observations of poor or unsafe living conditions, interaction with exhausted caregivers and suspicions of abuse ...

NHTSA's Office of Emergency Medical Services has published a final report titled "Feasibility for an EMS Workforce Safety and Health Surveillance System." Created with help from stakeholder groups ...

While the majority of emergency medical services (EMS) and fire-rescue agencies provide emergency care to children, pediatric calls are rare. In fact, because many agencies see fewer than eight ...

Aug. 8—At the request of the Niagara County Legislature, a Rochester-based nonprofit will begin evaluating the emergency services infrastructure of Niagara County this week. According to 10th District ...

Zero preventive trauma deaths. Is it possible, and do first responders hold the key to this lofty goal? Trauma accounts for at least 200,000 U.S. deaths per year. Recognizing this, in its 2016 report, ...

Editor’s note: The following story is the second of three about the release of the Cass County EMS Assessment presented to Cass County Board of Commissioners last month. The first story, published Aug ...

The Blount County EMS Board on Thursday voted unanimously to hire a third party to review local ambulance services, specifically its contract with American Medical Response (AMR). Following a year of ...

Plattsmouth Emergency Medical Services received high praise Monday night as a state administrator recapped the Cass County EMT assessment. Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services Program ...