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Ambulance ‘response times’ miss the big picture: health outcomes

By: Mississippi Ambulance Alliance Board Members Read this article in the Clarion Ledger. No one would dream of requiring that every patient seen in emergency rooms across our state is treated within 12 minutes. Such a stringent and arbitrary requirement would be dangerous to those most in need of urgent attention and unaffordable if not…

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Jupiter Town Council directs staff to create its own fire department with strategic support from Center for Public Safety Management

At its meeting on Tuesday, August 15, the Jupiter Town Council directed Town staff to create the Jupiter Fire Rescue Department (JFRD) to deliver excellent levels of service at a lower, more sustainable cost to residents and businesses. Creating the new JFRD will allow the Jupiter Town Council to have local control over costs, operations,…

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Here’s What High-Performance, High-Value EMS Looks Like

The Center for Public Safety Management proudly sponsored Academy of International Mobile Healthcare Integration’s (AIMHI) most recent webinar, “High Performance, High Value EMS.” The session provided a FREE learning opportunity for public policymakers and public safety leaders to explore the true potential of high-performance, high-value EMS delivery—and the recording is now available for on-demand viewing.…

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Leadership sets the tone: 75th Anniversary of Integration of the Armed Forces

CPSM Director Tom Wieczorek represented the International City/County Management Association (ICMA) at the Blue Star Families Campaign for Inclusion on July 26, 2023.  The event took place at the Historic Howard University in Washington, DC. and featured a presentation marking the 75th anniversary of President Harry Truman signing executive orders to integrate the military (July…

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Top 5 takeaways from NAEMT’s first national survey of EMS agencies

A national survey reveals EMS economic and operations redesigns that would have been considered heresy just years ago By: CPSM’s Matt Zavadsky, MS-HSA, EMT Ask any EMS clinician or leader, and they will tell you – many EMS systems across the U.S., regardless of provider type, are on life support. Workforce shortages, skyrocketing costs, supply…

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Otsego County EMS Reaches Crossroads – Part II: Recent Reports

By TED MEBUST for AllOstego.com The New York State Emergency Medical Services Council’s “2023 EMS Agenda for Future,” released last month, inspected challenges involved in supplying EMS delivery by creating topic-specific subgroups to study agencies, education, government, support, operations, hospitals and staffing. The Center for Public Safety Management’s recent “EMS Services Delivery Report” did the…

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Otsego County EMS Reaches Crossroads – Part I: The County Service

By TED MEBUST for AllOstego.com In December of 2021, the Otsego County Board of Representatives, at the recommendation of its Public Safety and Legal Affairs Committee, implemented a 24-hour, county-based advanced life support ambulance service, buying two ambulances and staffing 16 full-time and 10 part-time paramedics. Previously, pre-hospital emergency medical services had been largely carried…

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