EMS Leadership Academy

Kentucky takes a step toward decriminalizing human error. Interesting that they isolated it to healthcare providers. What about teachers, police officers, or parents? One small step, I guess. Great article by Anastasia Brunner explaining how Kentucky tweaked their justice system.

As we celebrate International Paramedic’s Day, we pay tribute to those paramedics and ambulance officers who came before us for paving the way to professional recognition, for challenging the status quo, for saying “we can do better”, and for not accepting being just an “ambulance driver”. These trailblazers have helped bring an incredible change to the industry and dramatically improved patient care. Today we also salute the new generation of paramedics who continue to push for improvements and advancement of the profession and are ready to take us to the next level of being an integral part of the healthcare system. Paramedic Practitioners and Community Paramedics are ready to provide advanced primary care delivery to a wide and diverse community and be an active part of improving the health and wellbeing of all. Thank you all who are taking up this challenge. To our politicians, legislative and policy makers - please hurry up and make the necessary changes to allow Paramedic Practitioners to work at their full capacity by providing advanced care and independent prescribing. We need the same status as Nurse Practitioners. It’s not that difficult! Paramedic Practitioners already practice extensively in many other countries like the UK, USA, and Canada. So, on International Paramedic’s Day, thank you to our past, present, and future paramedics for all that you do to keep the community healthy. 

“So we’ve got EMTs and paramedics all over the country who are doing the right thing by trying to work with patients to prevent unnecessary emergency department visits, but yet they’re not eligible for reimbursement" - Matt Zavadsky, PWW Advisory Group. We must continue to push for direct reimbursement for community paramedic programs and non-transport mobile healthcare. Otherwise, our ED overcrowding problems will continue to grow. Great NPR interview MATT ZAVADSKY. #mobilehealthcare #ems #communityparamedics

INNOVATION AWARDS! Do you know or are you a part of a NYS EMS Agency or EMS Education Program that is being innovative? Are they so innovative that it should be recognized for the work they are doing? There is only a few more days until the July 1st deadline to get in your innovation award nominations. Providers, Agencies and Instructors can self nominate or nominate someone else. Submit here by July 1st: https://lnkd.in/eu99jWbY A little more about the program: New York State EMS Innovation Awards: Progressive ideas and forwarding thinking agencies have inspired change that has created system sustainability, recruitment, retention, alternative education models and so much more. EMS Agencies, REMSCOs, REMACs, Program Agencies and Course Sponsors over the past year continue to be implementing innovation throughout New York State achieving positive results and advancing the field of Emergency Medical Services. If your agency or you know an agency that has solved a problem/gap using innovation, consider self-nomination or nomination of an agency to be one of the 2024 EMS Innovation Award recipients. Innovation Award Categories: Organizational Change Innovations: Innovations in system designs, agency sustainability, and facilitating organizational change. Clinical Delivery Innovations: Innovations in clinical practices that are leading to positive patient outcomes and/or positive patient experiences. Recruitment and Retention Innovations: Innovations in recruitment, onboarding, longevity, staff experience and/or staff satisfaction leading to gaining and retaining staff. Educational Innovations: Innovations in education delivery models, student experience and/or community involvement.