It is Spring Break and we have been working non-stop negotiating revisions to the FY2011 budget. Even expensive private universities have revenue issues.
Not gonna lie, it has been brutal. I need a break
The weather-guesser promises two stunningly beautiful days in DC.
NATIONAL EMS & 9-1-1 STAKEHOLDERS MEETING
I am escaping the budget blues to spend the next two days at a federally sponsored “stakeholder’s” meeting in at the National Institutes of Health campus in Bethesda.
United States Emergency Medical Services started as a federally-funded program during the Great Society movement by President Lyndon B. Johnson in the mid-1960′s. Decades after the federal funding dried-up, the organizational and regulatory framework remained. Works great for some communities, is strangling others.
Almost every part and piece of what we construct as our local EMS system is scheduled for a major revision or is warping under the pressure of more demands with less resources.
The movement from vocational ems training, the only educational program housed in the Department of Transportation, to Scope of Practice in 2013 is a major changes impacting EMS in the next decade.
Eventually, recommendations from the 2006 Institute of Medicine report: Emergency Medical Services At the Crossroads will receive funding.
This stakeholder meeting is part of the federal process of oversight, funding and regulation of EMS.
The Federal Interagency Committee on Emergency Medical Services (FICEMS) is conducting a National EMS and 9-1-1 Stakeholders meeting on March 17-18, 2010 in Washington, DC. The meeting is sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security, Office of Health Affairs.
At this meeting, the FICEMS leadership will present a brief overview of current Federal EMS and 9-1-1 related activities, respond to questions and listen to the opinions and ideas of national organizations and interested individuals about national EMS priorities and future directions. We propose the meeting as one way to improve communications between EMS stakeholders and Federal agencies. The meeting summary will be provided to FICEMS and to the National EMS Advisory Council. (link here)
While not as exciting as twittering with Chronicles of EMS evangelists, it is part of how EMS 2.0 gets federal resources.
Some of the resources that might end up at my university. Cannot get away from the money issue 
Mike “FossilMedic” Ward
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