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 ...

The EMS Assessment Team provided a list of recommendations resulting from their findings during the recent community visit and survey of area stakeholder groups. In the 35-page report released at ...

Environmental management should not be a bolt-on bureaucracy. Performance-based EMS assessment, according to David Turberfield, URS Verification, takes the pressure off documentation and focuses on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The “National EMS Assessment,” released in December 2011 by the Federal Interagency Committee on Emergency Medical Services (FICEMS), validates that the fire service is the largest provider of EMS in ...

The Center for Firefighter Injury Research and Safety Trends (FIRST) at Drexel University just launched the COVID-19 RAPID Mental Health Assessment (RAPID), funded in part by the US Federal Emergency ...