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01/13/2013

Go Jazz!

02/06/2012

Efficiency Through Loss: How Losing Can Help Us Win

Austin/Travis County Emergency Medical Services leaders hope the Austin City Council will consider a proposal to require just one certified paramedic onboard each of their responding units, instead of the two that are now required.

02/06/2012

Only assumption is that the man was not a student.

Austin police officials said the death of a man whose body was found in a sleeping bag Sunday near Austin High School is suspicious.

02/06/2012

Acknowledging that paramedics need multiple "opportunities to perform complex emergency procedures" in order to stay on top of their game.

Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services officials have begun taking public input on a plan they say would staff ambulances with one fewer paramedic but would provide better medical care and reduce costs.

02/06/2012

Life Imitates Art Imitates Life... Can this be real?

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) - After a preschool teacher fell at school and declined medical treatment, he says, police tackled him in his classroom, Tasered him repeatedly, injected him with a tranquilizer and took him to a hospital by force. Roland Haas sued El Dorado County, the City of South...

07/27/2011

EMS saves, but prove it!

New initiatives put in place for the F.D.N.Y.’s Emergency Medical Service teams are helping maintain the system’s integrity, according the department. Photo courtesy of the F.D.N.Y.

07/27/2011

Never fear, the EMS boy is here!

WESTPORT, Conn. – To help save the lives of seriously injured hikers in Alaska after a grizzly bear attack, Westport teen Samuel Boas recalled training ...

07/27/2011

What can space teach us about EMS?

This past weekend, the space shuttle Atlantis returned to earth, marking the end of a decades-long historic program. In one sense, it inspired awe and the belief that anything is possible. For someone

06/15/2011

More financial woes for community EMS station. Money is King, these days especially.

During a budget workshop Monday night, members of the Kalispell City Council expressed dismay with a new revenue formula used by Flathead County Emergency Medical Services.

06/15/2011

We're seeing more and more small towns and municipalities acquire their own EMS stations in response to population growth and otherwise emergency response inefficiencies. The less dependent a growing community like Bullard is from neighboring ambulatory services the better.

Above, from left, are Ron Schwartz, general manager; Neal Franklin, business development; Jeff Haislet, communications director; and Roy Langford, regional director. Below are Bullard Police Chief Gary Don Lewis, City Secretary Doris Crockett, City Manager Larry Morgan, Mayor Pam Frederick, Bullard