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EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES
Mission Statement
The purpose of the Division is to provide pre-hospital emergency medical treatment and transportation of the critically sick or injured.
Accomplishments:
2005 - 2006 return to top
Rescue 1 Total...1,588
Rescue 2 Total... 2,454
Rescue 3 Total... 943
Mutual aid Required... 68
Mutual aid Given... 35
REQUESTS FOR EMS
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2001 - 02 |
2002 - 03 |
2003 - 04 |
2004 - 05 |
2005 - 06 |
| Total Runs |
1,943 |
2,075 |
2,221 |
2,191 |
2,531 |
| Advanced Life Support |
560 |
747 |
860 |
768 |
1,031 |
| Clinically Significant |
74 |
66 |
75 |
76 |
98 |
COMMUNITY SERVICES
- South County Hospital Disaster Committee
- Rhode Island Paramedics Association
- South Kingstown HeartSafe Foundation
- Rescue-2 provided Advanced Life Support to the University of Rhode Island and to Charlestown Ambulance.
- Trained Town staff and Police in CPR and the application of Automated External Defibrillators.
- Monitored the practice of EMS billing to ensure proper administration by the vendor.
- Worked closely with the RI Emergency Management Agency to maintain communications between the Agency and the Town and establish emergency procedures for statewide events.
- Participated in the training of new Paramedics in cooperation with Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island, and Rhode Island EMS for Children.
- Utilized Medical Director position to facilitate monthly staff meetings, review of established standards and creation of new treatment policies.
- Continued to improve upon wireless network for dispatch and paperless report writing.
TRAINING - EMS Personnel* have achieved certification in:
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support
- Basic Trauma Life Support
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program
- EMS response to terrorism
- Advanced Trauma Life Support
- Incident Command levels 200-400
*all EMS Personnel are required to participate in 24 hours of elective continuing education each year and 48 hours of Department of Health-approved didactic training.
Goals: 2006 - 2007 return to top
- Work to expand the number of Automated External Defibrillators in public places and increase CPR/AED training for police patrols.
- Continue to investigate means of streamlining documentation and billing.
- Continue to utilize Medical Director for quality improvement.
- Improve upon ability to do more education on site.
- Continue to improve on disaster response in cooperation with South County Hospital and the statewide grant effort.
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