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 ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Officials from the City of Whittier, Los Angeles County and the L.A. County Fire Department on Thursday, Feb. 9, proudly celebrated the opening of Paramedic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...