MS Ambulance Alliance- MAA

11/08/2025

Calling all artists that have a calling for EMS

🎨 Calling all creatives! 🚨

Design a billboard for the National EMS Academy and you could win an EMT Training Scholarship!🌟

Unleash your artistic talent and help us promote the rewarding career of an EMT. This is your chance to make your mark and kickstart a life-saving career.

Submit your artwork by December 18, 2025. We will announce the winner Tuesday, January 3, 2026.

https://form.jotform.com/253095722229156

11/06/2025

Congratulations Graduates 🎓🚑

Congratulations to the Holmes CC Grenada Campus Fall 2025 EMT Graduates!

Tonight, we celebrate the incredible achievement of our EMT students who have completed one of the most intense and rewarding programs out there.

I am beyond proud of each and every one of you. The dedication, hard work, and resilience you’ve shown throughout this program is nothing short of inspiring. You’ve all demonstrated the utmost desire to succeed, maintained your dignity through challenges, and upheld the highest standards of professionalism.

It’s been an honor to serve as your instructor, and I’m so proud to have been part of your journey. I have no doubt you’ll go on to do amazing things in the EMS field, bringing your skills, passion, and commitment to the workforce.

Wishing you all the best as you step into the next chapter of your careers. You’ve earned it!

10/28/2025

Thank you Senator Kevin Blackwell for your continued support of EMS. Your leadership at the Capitol has made positive changes that have impacted every MS citizen and EMS agency.

On National First Responders Day, we pause to honor the men and women whose steady hands and brave hearts help us through life’s most dangerous moments. Thank you for your service and sacrifice to our communities, today and everyday.

09/29/2025

Mark your calendar for this free screening event

🎀 Early detection saves lives! Join us for a FREE Breast & Cervical Cancer Screening Event for women ages 21–64 who do not have insurance or are underinsured.

📍 MS Trade Mart, 1200 Mississippi Street
📅 Friday, October 17 | 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
💗 Free blood pressure & glucose checks included

✅ Pre-registration is required by September 30. Call 601-576-7466 or scan the QR code on the flyer to sign up.

09/14/2025

Think this would work in the USA? Mississippi?We know drivers don’t pull to the right and often seem confused where to move to- is this a solution?

In Germany, whenever traffic comes to a standstill, drivers must shift to the shoulders on both sides of the road, leaving a clear path down the middle for emergency vehicles. This practice, known as traffic education, is a rule that deserves to be adopted everywhere.🚗💗

09/05/2025

Innovation for MS that has been working in other states to handle low acuity calls by nurses.

Hinds County is launching a 911 Nurse Navigation system in October 2025 to connect nurses with 911 callers, reduce unnecessary ambulance dispatches and emergency room visits, and provide appropriat…

08/21/2025

We're Hiring!!

A new Executive Director job is available in Mississippi. Check it out on Journal of Emergency Medical Services.

08/20/2025

Prayers for the New Orleans EMS paramedic hit by a vehicle today. Such a tragedy.
This happens way too often in EMS. The MAA urges the public to slow down when you see public safety stopped and move to the other lane when at all possible. You should be slow enough to stop if needed.
Since July 2007, MS has a “Move Over Law.”
The law means a motorist passing an emergency vehicle on the side of the road must slow down and yield the right of way by changing lanes, thus keeping at least one lane between them where possible. If a lane change is impossible because of road or traffic conditions, a motorist must slow down and be prepared to stop, if needed, to prevent collisions.

08/11/2025

What a great idea! Interesting these are classified as “listed buildings.”
Does the USA still have any phone booths?

Did you know the famous red telephone boxes in the U.K. are re-purposed as  defibrillators because they are classed as ‘listed buildings’ and cannot legally be knocked down and they were never being used as a phone, so now the iconic red telephone boxes get a second life as public defibrillator stations!

(Others even get used as mini public ‘book for book libraries’) 🇬🇧 ☎️🏥📕

08/04/2025

Congratulations to Dr. Sessums and Dr. Williams

As you may know, our former Program Director, Dr. Benji Sessums, has accepted the position to serve as the Dean of Health Sciences at Jones College. He leaves behind a legacy of success in the classroom and expansion of, not only the EMS program, but all health-related programs at Jones College.

Dr. Eric Williams has been named to serve as the new Program Director for the Jones College EMT-Paramedic program. He is a 2008 graduate of Jones College in Paramedicine and went on to receive his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Mississippi in Public Health and his Doctorate from Delta State University in 2020. Prior to his return to Jones in 2014, he served as an EMS instructor for other colleges and as an Assistant Professor at the university level.

For the last 11 years, he has served as the Assistant Director for our program as well as the Lead Instructor for over 20 paramedic cohorts.
Dr. Williams is a member of numerous advisory boards and committees for multiple state and national EMS groups and foundations. He was also heavily involved or the primary author of virtually all Mississippi EMS curriculum over the last decade and has shaped EMS policy and education throughout the nation. He speaks at numerous conferences throughout the Southeast each year with his entertaining but memorable style. He has also been instrumental in the production and filming of the new campaign of EMS advocacy and awareness commercials you may have seen through the Mississippi Center for Advancement of Prehospital Medicine. He is a published author, syndicated columnist, and has served as a public health expert on several nationwide radio programs. In rare moments of free time, he enjoys high-end woodworking, and his shop which has even been featured on television.

Dr. Williams takes over officially as Program Director on August 8.

08/04/2025

Congratulations Graduates 🎓 🚑

With our 2025 Jones College Paramedic class graduating at the end of the summer, we want to begin spotlighting them and their accomplishments throughout the last year. Lacy Braddock is from Stringer and completed her EMT in 2023 and Advanced EMT in 2024. She works for EMServ of South Central Regional Medical Center and her primary preceptor is Ms. Sarah McFadden of AAA Ambulance Service. Lacy is the essence of determination… balancing work, school, and being a mother to six children. She proves each day that resilience isn’t a word- it’s a lifestyle. We wish Lacy much success in the future and are proud to call her a

05/23/2025

EMS WEEK 2025
WE CARE. FOR EVERYONE.
Thank you, Governor Tate Reeves for this proclamation recognizing EMS professionals on the ground and in the air. Daily we care for the citizens of MS and it is an honor to do so.
Your support of EMS is appreciated.

Our EMS workers play a vital role in providing lifesaving care to Mississippians — and they stand ready to serve us around the clock.

Proud to proclaim Emergency Medical Services Week in Mississippi.

THANK YOU, EMS teams!